Talk:Don Mills Centre

Cleanup and movement of information

I moved the info regarding new street names to the Shops at Don Mills Article as this article focuses on the site when it was the Don Mills Centre up to when it began redevelopment. I also changed the list (as per the tag) of former tenants to just a list of former anchor tenants to cut down on the lists which Wikipedia does not like.

Eja2k (talk) 19:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

History of Don Mills Centre

These are personal recollections of Don Mills Centre.

1. Prior to the building of Don Mills Public Library, the North York Public Library system sent a bookmobile once a week which parked at the north end of the shopping centre on Lawrence Avenue East. This was true in 1959-61.

2. Prior to the Eatons store being built, there was a steep slope to the west of the shopping centre, as it then was built. The slope fell from the shopping centre down to the west. It was very popular as a tobogganing slope in the winter. The Eatons store was built on this site.

3. By 1959, the strip mall was L-shaped, its two wings running parallel to Lawrence and Don Mills, with the Dominion Store as the anchor at the corner. Typically of this sort of shopping centre, there was parking between the buildings and the two streets. One normally entered the mall via a gap at the NE corner (i.e. near the Dominion Store). A sidewalk ran along past the stores on the inner side of the L. The drugstore was in the northern wing, i.e. the one parallel to Lawrence, as were the cheaper chain stores.

4. The first expansion of the shopping centre that I remember involved adding a double row of stores running south. A broad, better-quality boulevard was built between them. It had a different paving along it, perhaps stone slabs, and there was a covered path on either side (although the central area was open); also, if I recall, there was some greenery. The covered paths meant that you could walk along between the stores without getting wet; the older northern strip was open to the weather. The good stores were located along the new area. These definitely included a Classics bookstore, located about halfway down on the east side. Also, I think there was a jeweller's, perhaps Birks.

4. The mall was covered sometime after 1968. That was when my family moved out of the area; and it was still not an indoor mall at that time. --Greer Watson (talk) 08:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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