Monarch Butterfly
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They would have been in the old, old towns, villages, and crossroads, built before WWII.
See https://www.insauga.com/100-years-ago-streetsville-in-mississauga-looked-like-this/
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See https://www.insauga.com/100-years-ago-streetsville-in-mississauga-looked-like-this/
Admiral Beez
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No one in their 20s wanted or valued that. Instead they saw Regent Park and the violence, drugs, etc. that go exaggerated on the news. My mates all wanted double car garages on wide lots.
When we arrived in Canada in 1976 from the UK my parents bought a house at Derry Road and Winston Churchill. I still drive by it occasionally and well remember my brothers and I (and visiting cousins) playing cricket on the grassy patch when there no trees and just a stop sign, and lots of crashes.
I had some good times here in the 1970s and 80s. But yeah, I left Meadowjail in 1988 and never looked back.
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zang
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
EIFS is your best friend, man. Want a Cabbagetown house in Erin Mills, no probs! You can even build castles with it...
...wait, that's not what you where saying! >.<
DSCToronto
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It is 'interesting' how Trump and Ford both propose 'civic improvements' based on their own movements. Trump with homeless he sees while driving to the golf course and Ford with the bike lanes he sees!
www.bbc.com
How Trump's drive to his golf course shaped DC homeless crackdown
What the president sees on his journey out of Washington DC helps explain this week's push to clean up the capital.
www.bbc.com
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
^I think Ford has hinted similar sentiments to the homeless as well. /bleh
gabe
Senior Member
Especially now a days when you have to put up with this nonsense in the burbs. I grew up mostly in the burbs and currently live in suburban hell. We didn't have to deal with this craziness back in the 80s/90s. Nor did we have street racing and people blasting stereos and drag racing and doing burn outs at the strip malls all hours of the night, People illegally dumping garbage in the parks and on the streets. Burbs back then were peaceful boring and dull and very clean.
Good for Mississauga stepping in and putting an end to this chaos.
Years of complaints lead to court injunction at Ridgeway Plaza
The injunction is in effect to 2 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 15, and again from noon on Aug. 19 to 2 a.m. on Aug. 20.
toronto.citynews.ca
wopchop
Building Toronto
I don't know about you, but I certainly remember the all the genos in the 90s gathering at Coffee Times with their cars, and doing a lot of that. I may have even done it.
Maybe not as bad as Ridgeway though.
Maybe not as bad as Ridgeway though.
lenaitch
Senior Member
For North York, way back in the day, like in the '60s and '70s, either the Harvey's south of Richmond Hill or the Golden Star north of Steeles were the place to be and been seen, particularly if you had a hot car. That or putting all the skills you just learned watching the stock car races at Pinecrest Pinecrest, once you pulled out onto Hwy 7.
adma
Superstar
Frankly, given this thread of discussion, consider the various "activities" of the Ford kids in the 70s and 80s.
Towered
Superstar
Where does one go to be seen with a "hot" car these days??
Richard White
Senior Member
Depending on your definition of hot, possibly on a boat to Nigeria.
Mihairokov
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Bloor from Yonge to Avenue
T3G
Senior Member
There western part of Derry Road is horrible for this type of behaviour
lenaitch
Senior Member
Short of illegal activities, street racing, etc., many car clubs have regular informal 'meets' where they just hang out and show off their iron. I don't know about the GTA but the club in Orillia meets every Friday night in the summer; our local club in North Bay, every Tuesday. That's in addition to actual shows like Rosseau and Orillia. Some juried, some more informal.