if you grew up here and have an interest in your local history you'll wanna have a lookie see
I just spent the evening watching my own area evolve/devolve depending on your point of view
and I'd say it's the closest thing we'll probably have to a time machine for what it is
heh heh I even saw my mother's 50 pontiac for the very first time
- knowing the house and what WOULD have been in the driveway at the time
granted it's just a smudge in front of another white smudge - dad's brand new 64 galaxy
if anyone's familiar with highland creek , and old kingston rd east of
there is a little drop in the road going east from H-C
and there's a little creek in the bottom of the dip
driving west one night in 1967 my father came to that spot and found an old man laying in the road
he had fallen off his bicycle
there were no street lights there yet and there were cars approaching from the west
...so dad stopped , lept from the car and started waving to let the oncoming cars know the old boy was in the road
and at just that exact moment he heard his galaxy slide into the rut for the creek and roll over onto it's roof
.........forgot to put it in park ...ooops
he said his boss wasn't to impressed the next morning
on top of it being a canada metal company car .. it WAS supposed to be traded in that same day .. for his new 67 fury..which he went and picked up that day anyways
so , anyways , ever since , until the road was redone the last time they had put in the guardrails at that little dip
just because
you know
...dad, MY dad lol
the best man I've ever known
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-- Edited by DJD on Sunday 17th of March 2019 01:49:56 AM
If you are a Scarborough guy and like old photos you should visit the Scarborough Archives at Meadowvale and Kingston Rd. It's open to the public Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 pm and on Thursday's you'll find a fellow rodder to show you around.
Lived in West Hill for 20 years before retiring. Never a single incident. Get a little tired of people bashing Scarborough. No different then any where else, Belleville, Cambridge, Windsor or where ever.
anywhere east of birchhmount anyone who lived there in the 60s as I did knows.but do not go out without your glasses being naive helps.this my last response as you people that think it a safe place live in a world away from reality.the loosening of the drug laws are another factor I suppose.if anyone thinks it is so lovely leave a note to others when you become a victim ask them to assure your tombstone reads it is a wonderful place to die from a drive by or other crime good night mrs.calabash where ever you are
Have you looked at Etobicke or at Parkdale or at Young St. or at Mississauga or at Stouffville? The Provincial gov't. in their infinite wisdom, filled Scarborough with low income housing in the 60s, thus the term Scarberia. For a city of a million people, of course it will have it's problems, but don't paint generations of hard working, honest people with one brush just because of one intersection, Lawrence and Morningside. I lived there with lots of good friends for a good part of my life and our neighborhoods were clean, safe and productive. We had great sports, a super education system and some of the best employment in the country until the more recent exodus to cheaper labor.
Warren
-- Edited by wuga on Thursday 28th of March 2019 08:20:22 AM
Just about all of Scarborough, but the epicenter is Morningside and Lawrence. Anything within a 5 mile radius of that intersection should be nuked. I hope you're not in the target zone.
ha shows what you know 47 years in exactly the same place , no complaints
right across the street from the glen eagles hotel
probably the reason I hate drunks they tended to park in our ditches every friday and saturday night
lived there long enough to understand the metro conversation authority, scarborough and toronto parks , rouge park and "save the rouge" are all propaganda bull XXXX intended ONLY to aid in the promotion of new homes in the area at the time along with a few self promoting flunkies
as for the "restored" glen eagles property ....
HA!!
in a field that WAS full of wildlife there now lives only ONE rabbit
no mice in the grass , the spray on grass is only an inch or two long haven't seen a fox since used to see several every night
such a sad sad joke "save the rouge" the more they #ing "save" it the less resource we have
the whole "natural park" bs started the summer of 1980 when the parks dept decided to stop cutting the grass in the open areas
it was the excuse they used instead of admitting they were not going to spend the cash this far "out"
our little corner up here has been ignored for ever while our great no show city councillor moser claimed greatness for that obscenity along the waterfront
Geez I've lived within a mile or two of Morningside and Kingston Rd., in Guildwood since 1972. I'm obviously doomed. What a load of crap you guy's are spouting.
Geez I've lived within a mile or two of Morningside and Kingston Rd., in Guildwood since 1972. I'm obviously doomed. What a load of crap you guy's are spouting.
Is that so !! I grew up in that area so I do in fact know what I'm talking about. You're trying to tell me that having motels like "the Maple Leaf", gangs like the Galloway Boys, Morningside mall which is probably the worst in Ontario makes it a good area? You really need to look around and see how bad that area has gotten. Went to W.H.C.I. and I'll tell you, I'd be a minority if I stepped foot in there today.
Time to put this puppy to bed. I'm not going to change your mind about West Hill and you're sure as hell not going to change mine. Let's get back to car stuff.
and morningside mall..been a while since you visited I take it ..
ripped it down and replaced it with strip malls like what was there before - kinda
'cept now it's a hole instead of a hump
