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www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operations-customer-service/access-city-information-or-records/city-of-toronto-archives/whats-online/maps/aerial-photographs/

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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link added (sometimes I forget sorry)

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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.



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there was a time you could enjoy a safe and enjoyable ride through that area today not so much unless in an armored vehicle.

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That's good to know although I've lived in the West Hill, Highland Creek area since 1955 without having an armored car.

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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.

Warren

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Thank you Warren. Scarborough always gets a badmouthed usually by people that have never lived here.

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sorry should have said scarbiria wearing rose coloured glasses help I am sure

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Dakota wrote:

Thank you Warren. Scarborough always gets a badmouthed usually by people that have never lived here.


 Paul Bernardo would agree with you. LOL

In all fairness, that area was a $hithole 25 years ago and things haven't improved since.



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What area are you referring to?



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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

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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.

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Dakota wrote:

What area are you referring to?


 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.



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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


view is from middle of garage door looking out



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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.



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Dakota wrote:

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.



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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.



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lol
at least it's not oshawa...

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

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