Willowdale50s

 Email from Charles Dowson  Jun 4, 2021, 12:49

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Gents

Take a trip down Yonge Street and view the past, Now if only Google could go to the past with their camera cars disguised as an old milk truck and put that on their site. We might catch a glimpse of John and Richard in the lineup at the old Willow Theatre some Saturday morning. Or Q Ball standing in front of Andrews Meat Market at Parkview and Yonge Street.

Enjoy the tour gents.

Chuck

1945: The Jolly Miller

The Jolly Miller now The Miller was a great place for a pint and a skate in the winter. I never did both because you had to take a bus there. The Algonquin had more class architecturally and the Mitchel Field rink was only 3 blocks north.  

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7405569,-79.4059047,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMakKLZtEyvFye0-xVVK1XQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DMakKLZtEyvFye0-xVVK1XQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D148.41164%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Trapper's Restaurant

The Trappers Restaurant now a Popeyes at the old city limits. One day while Mike and I were in a car with John he parked out front and went into Trappers to get some matches.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7343094,-79.4046155,3a,75y,90h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjSyb0LCc0ocnsh24-I6jSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Old east side building complex still there.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7305197,-79.4036543,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOzOOHFZlT3XLnleJTTBfFw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Another landmark] The Du Maurier Apartments east side of Yonge Street just north of Lawrence Ave. One day the three of us and mom waited in the '54 Chevy while dad went in to see Auntie June down that little road way.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7256679,-79.4023859,3a,75y,90h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se_weKmU2TWLccCkkkAPrSg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

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