I think that current city council announced the expansion is almost finished.An earlier view of Yolles Furniture, along with other pics of Yonge Street.
Side Stories – Yonge Street in 1948
In 1948 the traffic on Yonge Street and other major arterial roads was so bad that the City’s Committee on Works recommended that the stretch of Yonge Street from Terauley Street (near Dundas) to Heath Street (north of St. Clair) be widened to approximately 86 feet. In preparation for this work...www.toronto.ca
Vintage Toronto
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First opening day for the Blue Jays, a Zamboni machine being used to clear snow off the Exhibition Stadium field, April 7, 1977
I kinda miss the mistake by the lake, was more fun watching games back then, fans were rowdier, especially in the aluminum bench seats section down the first base line.
I miss it too. We were bleacher creatures in the grandstand as teenagers watching George Bell in Left Field. Great times.
I was in Montreal from 1969-84. The second Blue Jays game I saw was September 6, 1985 against the Minnesota Twins. I was about ten rows back in the left field bleachers. Cecil Fielder hit a home run, (2nd of his career), that just grazed the top of my fingers. A guy a couple of rows back caught the ball.
I saw about ten games at Jarry Park.
In the early 70's, bleacher tickets for kids 12 and under cost fifty cents. For April games, kids could watch for free by climbing on top of the snow drift behind the center field fence. The winter of 1969-70 was brutal in Montreal, and the snow pile was almost as high as the fence for the first couple of weeks of the season.
Jarry Park was a terrible facility, but a good place to see a ballgame, because there was very little foul territory, so all seats were close to the field.
I saw about ten games at Jarry Park.
In the early 70's, bleacher tickets for kids 12 and under cost fifty cents. For April games, kids could watch for free by climbing on top of the snow drift behind the center field fence. The winter of 1969-70 was brutal in Montreal, and the snow pile was almost as high as the fence for the first couple of weeks of the season.
Jarry Park was a terrible facility, but a good place to see a ballgame, because there was very little foul territory, so all seats were close to the field.
There were no options at that time. It worked well for football and concerts. Baseball was not in the equation when it was built.
MLB must uv thought they'd made a huge mistake at that time. But we're not far from 50 years for the Jays. The 10-12 year wait for the Skydome is just a blip. And at that time, we were sooo thrilled to have a team, we were more than willing to put up with the less than ideal conditions.
How would your back hold out nowadays without any support on those benches during a 3 hour game?
The double headers!, let alone a single game, I'd would have to get up do a 7th inning stretch every inning!
One of the top restaurants back in the day on Yonge and Gerrard was Bassels restaurant. In later years one of the first strip clubs there, think it was The Zanzibar and across the street on the west side was the club Bluenote which was an after hours bar that featured live entertainment one of which was a transgender, named Jackie Shane who I saw a few times who i believe came from the Buffalo area. He was a great R & B singer and apparently died recently at 83 years old, one year older than me. Hope I am not next to go. LOL.
Picadilly Tube!, restaurant/tavern where many bands played including Rush, Yonge and Edward st.
Do you remember that the dancers were only allowed to take off their tops, the bottom had to stay on. No lap dances.W
I LOL’d at the bottom line of the ad:
Freaks, heads, longhairs and students - $2.00
Queen and Spadina. And a few doors north was the iconic Shopsy's Deli. I can still smell it now. It was cafeteria style. Grab a tray, slide it along the railing and point to whatever you want. You'd see them hand slice your pastrami right in front of you.
I was there that day, sat in the open stands, froze my balls off. LOL.
