That’s a Supeertest station on the northwest corner/OldTO

A wider shot shows the T-junction of Bayview and Moore with the corner of Pottery Rd. at the left/OldTO

Bayview and Moore today, cell rooftop antennas and all

Here we see the empty corner of Bayview and Moore Ave. in a photo from 1955 looking west. There was no apartment building on the as-yet uncreated southwest corner because the streets formed a T-junction. The Bayview extension was begun in 1959 and took Bayview snaking into the valley. The Petro Canada station was a Supertest fill-up next door to someone’s home. Signage suggests the northwest corner held a Shell station.

Pre-expansion Loblaws has a covered walkway to the east door

Nor was there a Loblaws in 1955 but we can show you the smaller Loblaws store (2009) which had a nice covered walk along the east side. That would be handy for today’s C-19 lineups. Below is the expanded Loblaws, completed in 2010.

Loblaws today

Ryan Spitzer and shoe delivery

Ryan Spitzer of Hanna Rd. has collected and delivered, with the help of the community, 125 pairs of donated washed and cleaned gym shoes to Thorncliffe Park Public School this week. The shoe drive is in its 6th year and helps ensure kids from kindergarten through grade five are ready to play. His task required ingenuity during the C-19 pandemic because schools were not available to collect and hold shoes. Instead, public-spirited people were asked to deliver the shoes to the Spitz front porch.

The NDP support for the Liberal government seems to hang on just how generous the new Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is going to be. Will you be able to collect it for the sniffles? It worries some that (choo) you will. Then, Wednesday is the first of TDSB deadlines to decide on whether your youngster will be taught in class or virtually this year. Below that, Nuit Blanche at a distance begins this weekend. What a crazy world we live in. Finally, Megan and Harry insist their deal with Netflix is for the most cultured form of documentaries. The British media has been suggesting a royal version of Dating Naked.

SERRA, the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association, has issued a “Call to Action” in advance Tuesday evening’s virtual meeting to discuss the 27-storey proposal for 733 Mt. Pleasant Rd.  The release provides detailed information on how to register and participate in the meeting. It begins at 7 p.m.

• Meeting Sept 29 on 27-floor giant at former Newbigging site
• 27 Storey Condo Tower Proposed for 733 Mount Pleasant

Speeding car leaped narrow sidewalk at Balmoral Ave. in November, 2016/Bulldog

Outside Brown School 2015/Jack Lakey, Star

Avenue Rd. south from St. Clair in 1937 when it was a pleasant, treed street

Residents will demonstrate Tuesday morning to urge slower speeds and wider sidewalks for the high-speed stretch of Avenue Road between St. Clair Ave. and Bloor Street. It sees some  30,000 vehicles a day and anyone who has walked the slivery sidewalks knows the meaning of fear. Five associations are allied as the Avenue Road Safety Coalition (ARSC).  They are urging the City to establish an immediate pilot project to widen sidewalks and to lower the speed limit to 40 kilometres per hour between Bloor and St. Clair. Eighteen large banners will line Avenue Road calling for “Wider Sidewalks and Slower Speeds”. Details

• Bad ending as cars tangle on northbound Avenue Rd.
• Risky passage on Avenue Rd. sidewalks south of St. Clair

A long thread at I am a Leslievillian FB account reveals the tricky business of casually accepting references for contractors seen on Facebook. The community forum is valuable but it can be misused.

There were 700 new cases of C-19 counted in the overnight period, a record number since the infection was first detected in Ontario. The cases reported Monday were found in 41,000 tests. Critics of the government often focus on a failure to achieve far higher test totals. The capacity of provincial facilities and staff is estimated somewhere near 80,000 tests a day. The previous high C-19 count was 640 cases found on April 24 with far fewer tests.

Ontario is reporting 700 cases of #COVID19 with more than 41,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 344 new cases in Toronto with 104 in Peel, 89 in Ottawa and 56 in York Region. 60% of today’s cases are in people under the age of 40.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) September 28, 2020

Toronto Public Health has issued a warning for patrons of Regulars, 668 King St. W., that three employees of the bar have tested positive for C-19. Anyone who visited Regulars between September 13 and September 22 is asked to self-quarantine for 14 days and arrange for testing.

Just asking.

A ticket holder in Quebec won Saturday night’s $8.4 million Lotto 649 jackpot. The draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a lottery player in Quebec. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Sept. 30 will be approximately $5 million.

Party, party

The Ministry of Health reports 491 new cases of COVID-1 for the 24-hour period ending at midnight. It is a number similar to those seen early in the pandemic last Spring. There are 137 new cases in Toronto, 131 in Peel, 58 in Ottawa and 58 in York Region. People under 40 accounted for 63 percent of Sunday’s cases.