Looking east along Bloor St W from Spadina Ave, in The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto.
The archive photo features several shops, arranged from right to left as follows: Varsity Restaurant, N N Super Market, Tamblyn Drugs, Varsity Hardware, Harron’s Cleaners & Dyers, Miceli Barber, Meyers Cigar Store, and Madison Service Gas Station. In the background, the Bloor Street United Church is also visible.
Furthermore, the old photo shows that streetcars formerly operated along Bloor St W prior to the implementation of the Line 2 subway.
Then and Now
SOURCE
- Photo: Denise Marie for TorontoJourney416
- Vintage Photo: City of Toronto Archives
- Toronto City Directory courtesy of Toronto Public Library
In the 1980s, I would go to the Varsity Restaurant in the mornings and get a coffee and muffin before work. The coffee came in a white styrofoam cup, and back then, I had to cut the lid to drink from it.