Downsview in the late 50s and early 60s

Some pictures from the good old days in Downsview when I was growing up there in the late 50s and early 60s. This page started as mostly an exercise in nostalgia. I have tried to find pictures from the 1960s, that great formative era when us baby-boomers entered our teens. Downsview developed quickly as I was growing up. I have no idea what is happening there now. I moved to Ottawa in 1976 and haven't really kept up with the place.

I would welcome emails giving precise identifications or interesting information about the places shown in the pictures.

Even send gossipy details from back in the sixties if it might add interest to the pictures here.

I hope these pictures bring back good memories for you.

Michael Davidson - sleepless3@gmail.com

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Some songs I was humming to myself when making these web pages.

Well I'm not the kind to live in the past

The years run too short and the days too fast

The things you lean on are the things that don't last

Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these

Time passages

There's something back there that you left behind

Oh time passages

Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight



Al Stewart - Time Passages



And their memory's like a train

You can see them getting

Smaller as they pull away

Oh and the things you can't remember

Tell the things you can't forget

That history puts a saint

In every dream



And it's time time time

And it's time time that you love

Tom Waits - Time



Now the years are rolling by me

They are rocking easily.

I am older than I once was

And younger than I will be

But that’s not unusual.

But ain't it strange,

How after changes upon changes

We are more or less the same.

After changes we are

More or less the same.

