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<title>Raymond</title>
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You are absolutely right about the dire need for routing traffic away from Keele & Dundas. It is the only way north/south for far too much traffic. Old Weston Road bridge was condemned fro auto traffic but continued on for some years for pedestrians only until this too was closed due to improvement of GO train service by easing the sharpness of the curve. This was the same project that caused the demolition of the CPR West Toronto depot against the wishes of the historic community. Clearly, the bridge should have been rebuilt but the City had no money to do so. They missed a great chance to put in an underpass with the current rail work being done to eliminate the railway diamond where tracks cross each other. At minimal expense the tunnel could have been widened to include a street. Old Weston Road would go south under the east/west tracks and cut into Dundas. Great way to improve traffic to bad nobody could see this. 

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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:06:13 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>CK</title>
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Its utterly foolish to have dismantled the Old Weston Road bridge, would like to find the reason why it had to be removed.  Every vehicle heading to Keele or Weston or St Clair or Black Creek now has to make the right turn at Keele and Dundas.  Even if the bridge was too old and narrow for modern day vehicles, the least they could've done is left it as a foot bridge/cycling path.  The removal in analogous to closing the new Dufferin under pass at Queen St West and going back to using the old Dufferin jog over at Gladstone and Queen.  ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:16:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Richard</title>
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I gotta agree with James, hes the only one out of all these commenters, and the author of this article, who hasn't been mesmerized by the fallacies of gentrification. You dont mind the 'poor' but you dont like the 'ugly side' that comes with them. Well thats a contradiction if I ever heard one. Financial depravity doesn't tend to bring out the best in anyone, you, me, your grandma or that hooker on the corner of Indian Rd. Crescent and Dundas. You sound like an elitist prick to me. These people established themselves in the neighborhood long before the invasion of the urban bourgeoisie. Its crazy to see people advocating the displacement of the poor. Out of sight out of mind. You know what boggles my mind, people come to these areas seeking 'the urban lifestyle' yet they want it sedate, sterile, clean, so their bratty 3 year olds and pampered pets can roam the streets without being glared at by a 'sketchy' looking homeless man. Man get the hell out, leave the inner city to the people who can handle it. You want clean, sterile, and safe move back to the suburbs and small white towns you came from.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:10:49 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>nevenka</title>
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I have been living in the junction over 55 years and a lot has changed, there used to be a movie theatre just east of Pacific, Woolworthes, Kresges and Louises were the place to buy all your needs, I remember Indovina is where my mother would do all her main shopping because they delivered and we had no car. when we moved from Maria St to Mcmurray ave my elderly neighbour recalled there being a watering hole for the horses in front of her home and the sidewalks made of wood, that I would have liked to see but, she was in her 80's when she talked about the area, shes been gone for over 30 yrs.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:02:56 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Train Man</title>
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Great photos, the railway yards in the area were one of the main employers (imagine working close to where you live!).

More Junction/West Toronto railway history can be found here:

http://trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Toronto/LAMBTON.htm
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:37:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Norm</title>
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My grandfather was a porter and moved his family to the junction in 1921.  Lots of the small row houses in the area were built by CN to house it's employees - loaders, porters, yardmen.  There was also a row of small houses just west of the stockyards on the south side of St. Clair for railroad men who had to lay over in T.O. because their homes were in Winnipeg or eslewhere in the country.  The yards were a magical place to visit - I remebre being about 7 years old and watching the 'big boys'of 13 jump on the backs of rams to rodeo ride them - they usually ending up getting thrown off and skidding across the pens on the slick manure (very exciting!). I dont' miss the smell, or the choking coal smoke emanating form the round house that was at the corner of St. Clair and Runnymede, nor the poverty-stricken conditions of families that lived right by the stock yards, but life was a bit freer then as the junction was just a stone's throw from the countryside, and you could catch frogs and see wild ducks nesting in the valley north of the Swifts. 
John is correct - the area was Little Malta and I went to school with Schwerbs and Micallefs. A neighbourhood phenomenon was hearing Maltese mothers purse their lips and pitch high whistles to call their kids in for supper - we were told Malta was very rocky and whistles would echo and and carry a long way.  The mothers would lean out into the alleys between the houses and use them stone sound tunnels to amplify their whistling.  interesting because there is a whistling language on a rocky Spanish island west of Malta.]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:26:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title>John</title>
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This article fails to mention that The Junction was also known as "Little Malta" and was home to the largest communities of Maltese people in Canada. The Junction was acutally quite a vibrant place in the '70's when I used to visit my Nana there.  Then,in the early 1980's, that's when the Maltese people started moving out to the 'burbs & the area just died.]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:10:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title>James</title>
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Perhaps our indigent would have less opportunity to degenerate in a downward spiral if new residents stopped justifying $1300 as a reasonable price for their basement rental units? Or maybe they'd feel a little less like shit everyday if they weren't being referred to as "junkies" and "dead beats". Look up the word empathy and then do something worthwhile with that privileged perspective of yours, like read a book about systemic poverty, drug addiction and mental illness.  ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:41:45 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rob</title>
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You do realize you basically said what I did, right? 

Nope, probably not. Better head back to your carob muffin. ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:03:41 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Junction</title>
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@Rob-you are such a brilliant moron!!
I actually moved into the Junction initially because I could afford to buy something here...wtf are you talking about Rawness???" I thought that the area was quaint and had potential. And I was right! I love it here! 
I was giving examples of some sketchiness that I have personally encountered. Not saying that the area is war torn? Or trying to turn it into some movie! Or saying fear for your life! 
I'm  saying that it is fucking annoying to have junkies and dead beats...hanging around and acting crude. 

You are another poster who is a turd of magnificent proportions!!! 
Doubt you live in this neighbourhood either!!!!

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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:37:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Gina Farrugia</title>
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nothing about this area being "Little Malta"?

Shame on you, hipsters.  For all your 100 mile diet/craft beer consumption, up cycling and and vintage bike infatuations, I would hope you'd do a little more research.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:30:51 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rob</title>
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"I moved into the Junction because it was one of the few RAW areas of the city left, where one could see RAWNESS on the street and RAWNESS in the parks, but because I moved here and my shadow is so immense and amazing, all that RAWNESS is gone and it's a much nicer place"

That's seriously what you sound like. ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:03:04 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rob</title>
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LOL @ The Junction being some kind of Tenderloin district in the heat of the crack boom. 

Get real.

Please do not import this disgusting American trend of "bigging up" your neighbourhood as being some kind of warzone that you were able to survive because of your perseverance. It's always the urban pioneers that do this too... irritating, boring, overeducated white people with no sense of anything outside of Apple products and craft beer. ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:01:27 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Junction</title>
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@James-I think that you are being very assumptive. I really don't think that you understand what i am saying. There is a huge difference between poor folks and junkies/prostitues. No one has issues with poor people or low income housing. Its the ugly side that comes along with low income housing, the riff raff, and illegal activities, etc., etc. We want to have safety and feel comfortable walking on our own streets. Feel confident that when taking our kids, pets for a walk we wont be harassed, begged for money, cat called, offered drugs. Cause this has been my reality at times in the junction. 
Do you get it??
Fairly put, I believe that like myself most of the residents of the junction that have moved in over the last decade are working class people...we aren't all hipsters that drink only craft beer and want the neighbourhood to become the next Dundas and Ossington. We don't! 
Like some of the others have mentioned their families have sewn roots here...I think some of the rest of us would like to be able to do the same! We are grateful for the positivity in the neighbourhood in the recent years, including new businesses that seem to be doing well- ie new restaurants, clothing stores, and yes James also craft breweries..lol. Yes it is nice to be able to stay in your own neighbourhood and have a drink...be it craft beer or Budweiser. 


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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:43:24 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Keri</title>
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I have lived in the Junction for 17yrs, it has seen good times and not so good times. There is a lot of underground riff raff that people don't know about....there always has been, but it's like that anywhere. My family has 4 generations that have grown up in the Junction (me being the 4th). My grandfather was the #1 snooker player in the Junction and my aunt rented an apt for 100.00 back in the good ol days. I am proud to have such deeply sewed roots here in the Junction!! 

I would also like to say that I think it's hilar that the Junction is now some cool hipster/rockabilly hang out....people are funny with there styles and materialism!!]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:22:23 EST</pubDate>
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<title>AV</title>
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God James you are so self-righteous and assumptive it makes me chuckle. Easy now!]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:28:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title>James</title>
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You obviously don't realize that the poor that are left in your neighbourhood can't afford a $200,000 anything, let alone a condo. In order to reach that level of economic self sufficiency they need to be able to save money first. Try rent controls and subsidized apartments within buildings, not subsidized condos or buildings full of poor people. So much blindness, so much willful ignorance. But as the poster known as Junction said, let them relocate and or disappear (die) somewhere else. Not my problem. I just want craft beer. Sleep well.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:36:20 EST</pubDate>
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I love seeing all the old photos of the Junction! Thanks for that! What a cool neighbourhood..I have lived here since 2008 and love it! Great history in this neighbourhood, as it has ridden out many high and low points. I enjoy all the changes that have occurred in such a short time that I have been here, 
 
I agree that the area has cleaned up a lot since I first moved in. I agree too that it can be a little rough from dundas/keele to dundas/Annette/Dupont. Crackheads screaming and fighting and prostitutes, drug dealers, etc. Strung out crazies having sex and doing drugs in my old laneway at Indian rd and Annette st. I found used condoms and drugs on many occasions! Would call the cops to come pick up baggies of coke and who knows what else....lol. Because of these bizarre occurrences we ended up moving to the west side of Keele and it is much different...you really don't see much of this stuff- @Rob-maybe this is why you didn't notice it??? I still walk my dog through this psuedo-sketchy section now, but I notice less and less going on, especially since the Heintzman buildings went up. Maybe also because it is winter...summer brings them back out onto the street....Lol. Call me an asshole but the more these troubled individuals relocate to other neighbourhoods, the happier i am. 
Love live The Junction!!]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:35:56 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Adam Sobolak</title>
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Note the Union Jack shield in the 119-121 Annette photo--this was when Toronto The Good was observing Elizabeth's succession to the throne...]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:25:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rich</title>
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@mmm 100% agree with everything you said

@Hermano I agree, however I'm waiting to see how the old McBride's cycle lot (or more recently the Junction Flea location) gets developed. I've seen drawings of the condo proposal and as is it doesn't blend well with the low rise heritage buildings around here that Thomas mentioned above.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:51:27 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Hermano</title>
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@james, actually there is attention being paid to affordable housing in the neighbourhood, in fact the whole Heintzman condo development happened because it affordable housing plans developed by options for homes, that allowed a lot of people to buy condos at cost, substantially below market price. 2 bedroom condos in that building were being sold for 200,000, bachelors for 100,000. Development has happened pretty intelligently in the area so far, and I don't think there's really a lot to complain about, I just hope it continues that way in the future.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:32:24 EST</pubDate>
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<title>mmm</title>
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James, the best neighbourhoods have a mix of classes and people working together. You accomplish nothing by trying to stoke a conflict between peoples who live in the neighbourhood (from the sound of it, I doubt you live there). Apartment rents are still quite reasonable in the area, although commercial rents have gone up quite a bit.

What's great about the junction, and why it will not turn into queen west, is that there's no streetcar or subway running through it, and it scares away a lot of dense development, thankfully. It's one of the only neighbourhoods I know of that still has landlords (actual people, not corporations) who don't mind renting apartments to people on ODSP and OW.

I love living here because it's so much less crowded. Whatever shops open up on dundas is just a bonus. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:21:01 EST</pubDate>
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<title>James</title>
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Ya Rich, watching homeless people die and then mentioning it on a blog site is just my way of telling a yarn. Ask any social worker about the negative effects of gentrification. Without an equal effort to establish afforable housing throughout a neighbourhood poor people get pushed out, and yes, they die. I can deliver you to quite a few graves if you like. And the reason you're paying $825 a month is because you've either occupied the same place for years or you're living in your parent's basement. Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but anyone looking to move to the Junction right now will be hard pressed to find anything inhabitable for less than $1100. You have absolutely no clue who makes up the less fortunate in your neighbourhood and how they're coping with rising rents and the scorn of arrogant hipsters in search of the next best organic bruch bistro. Until you and others stand up for affordable housing in the neighbourhood your obsession with craft beer will be nothing less than blind self indulgence. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:04:49 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Thomas Gonder</title>
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I've lived in the Junction for roughly three years now, and have always liked the character of the neighbourhood. I'm right on the NE Corner of Dundas West and Indian Grove, and moved to the neighbourhood specifically for it's low rise, heritage buildings, tree-lined streets and proximity to High Park. Well served by transit, good pubs and restaurants, and there has definitely been come 'cleaning up' in the area since I moved here three summers ago...seems to be less drug dealing and prostitution going on (often right outside my bedroom window!). Up and coming area, I will miss it if and when it's time to move on.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:38:16 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Anna F.</title>
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Derek - thank you for your posts on old Toronto. This one was particularly interesting. Keep up the great work!]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:45:49 EST</pubDate>
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<title>the lemur</title>
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You'd have to be a lot closer to St John's than to Clendenan to take that view along Dundas.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:33:55 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Frank</title>
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Love the area... Best place to drink in the city.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:29:11 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rich</title>
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James, sir, you are a turd of magnificent proportions to make up the tale you just did. 

If you lived in our neighbourhood you would know the same group of transients still exist, still hang out at Crossroads for cheap brews and dirty women, and still pay for their room by the week at the "hotel" where the crosswalk is on Dundas.

Also, try paying $825 per month for a 700+ sq. ft 1 bdrm. steps away from Dundas & Keele. I do!

And yes, here's to a GREAT local microbrew... several of them actually]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:12:48 EST</pubDate>
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<title>James</title>
<description><![CDATA[
They left because landlords realized they could charge people like you $1300+ for a one bedroom. There's also the very real possibility that the "fauna" didn't migrate anywhere. They may have just froze to death or ended up locked away at CAMH. Not that it matters though, right? Here's to great microbrew!]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396147</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396147</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:53:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Sousedbergin</title>
<description><![CDATA[
South West corner of Keele and Dundas West was full of addled fauna before, 40 years old looking 70, screaming at traffic. Not sure where they migrated to. Before I would walk down to Roncesvalles but now everything I need is in the Junction including Canada's best beers. ]]>
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<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396136</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:11:04 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Boo</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Great neighbourhood - lived here 12 years and gimme a break, it was never THAT sketchy. Can't say I'm entirely thrilled with the gentrification. Try coming home from work on the Junction 40 nowadays. Nasty crowded!]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396132</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396132</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:02:26 EST</pubDate>
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<title>glenn storey</title>
<description><![CDATA[
uuuhhh, well that's st. john's rd, but the picture is taken at clendenan. st john's rd is west of clendenan.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396119</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396119</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:32:09 EST</pubDate>
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<title>j-rock</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Really? That's around when I first moved to High Park, and being a short walk to the Junction was one of the things I loved most about living there.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396118</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396118</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:26:44 EST</pubDate>
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<title>j-rock</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Probably my favourite neighbourhood in Toronto. I left the west end nearly 2 years ago for midtown and I still miss it terribly.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396116</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396116</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:23:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title>EC</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Of course 420 Quebec Ave looks like a decrepit old crack house :P]]>
</description>
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<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396102</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:38:38 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rob</title>
<description><![CDATA[
I lived on Mavety for 15 years. I don't remember any of this. 

It was always a working class area, but I can see how someone "cultured" could mistake them for crackheads since they don't own MEC backpacks or eat local. ]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396100</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:35:46 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Skye</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Keele/Dundas was definitely in flux until just a few years ago.  You'd have families on an outing on one side of the street, and crackheads fist-fighting on the other side.  All part of what you'd expect from gentrification.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396094</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:29:15 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rob</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Yeah, that's a trollin'. ]]>
</description>
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<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396087</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:19:42 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Brian</title>
<description><![CDATA[
@Rob, not sure about grandmas (I can see you are very familiar) but say Keele/Dundas to Jane/Dundas was a terrible area... I'm not sure is any Salvation Army in that area but there's a lot of bums and junkies, you can't deny that!]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396085</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:08:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Rob</title>
<description><![CDATA[
You can't be serious.

Are you scared of old Portuguese grandmothers? ]]>
</description>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:00:57 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Derek</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Yup!

http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/11/where_to_buy_vintage_photographs_of_toronto/]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396079</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396079</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:43:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Yeah</title>
<description><![CDATA[
It's good to know that 90 years later, the intersection of Keele & St. Claire is still a mess!


Really those, these photos are great.]]>
</description>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:40:59 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Jason</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Does the city sell prints of their old photos?]]>
</description>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:33:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Brian</title>
<description><![CDATA[
I hated that area when i was living in High Park, 5 years ago... It was a very sketchy area and I used to avoid it. I'm glad it's changing! i might consider moving to High Park again :)]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396072</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396072</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:29:53 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Keith Hightower</title>
<description><![CDATA[
I bought a house in the Junction three years ago. I am now the fourth generation in my family to have lived in the junction. I am very proud of that fact. ]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396070</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396070</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:26:58 EST</pubDate>
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<title>W. K. Lis</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The Junction was a lovely place to shop... until they ripped the streetcar tracks out.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396068</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:10:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Will</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The Junction has come a long way.. The revitalization of the area, has been great.  Still one of the last "dry" areas, in Ontario, until the early 2000's, when they were finally allowed to serve alcohol.  The Junction has great personality.  Many hidden gems, in the area.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396066</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396066</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:04:19 EST</pubDate>
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<title>the lemur</title>
<description><![CDATA[
I think the 'Dundas & Clendenan' shot is actually at St John's Rd, given the angle.

The street sign on the corner of the house at Lloyd and Mulock is still there.

'79 Talbot' should probably be 7-9.

]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:55:01 EST</pubDate>
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<title>glenn storey</title>
<description><![CDATA[
yep. me too.]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396057</link>
<guid>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396057</guid>
<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:00:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Alan</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Love living here!]]>
</description>
<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/02/what_the_junction_used_to_look_like_in_toronto/#c1396051</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:45 EST</pubDate>
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