Coles Books

One of my favourite Cole’s pictures! 1978 picture of Yonge & Dundas looking out from the fifth floor of the Toronto Eaton Center. Picture from the @TorontoArchives #colesbookstore #toronto #oldtoronto

I loved my fav bookstore! #Toronto

Yonge and Dundas in 1979

This was what the southeast corner of Yonge Street and Dundas Street East looked like 50 years ago, in February of 1974. It is now Yonge and Dundas Square. ow.ly/nsP150QwQeV #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

@TorontoArchives We ❤️ that corner!

Yonge Street looking south west from Charles Street, seen #OnThisDay 50 years ago. ow.ly/Zs1N50P3uKE #OTD #TorontoHistory #TorontoArchives

This is incredible, thank you @MikeDaley8. Long live @Colesthebookppl, and RIP A&A. I must say though that I have ever felt comfortable enough to float inside the Zanzibar!

Before Eaton Centre was built, the youth of Toronto congregrated in telephone booths outside @Colesthebookppl for some festive claustrophobia. 📸 Robert W Kelley for @LIFE, 1959.

Yes!!

We do!

@stribe39 @mileslunn @PierrePoilievre I rarely utilize a Coles Notes-type strategy...so yes! 🤣

@e_bloor @g_meslin @SenateCA 👆great pic

Possible time stamp to my favourite scans from @g_meslin: August 9, 1962. Businessman Wallace McCutcheon is appointed to @SenateCA! And more @Colesthebookppl although the sunlight is tempering my reimagining.

That NINE point feeling 😍🍁 #CANMNT #WCQ #ForCanada

I was so thrilled to see @g_meslin's views of Yonge from the centenary of my passing that I reimagined them in colour. @Colesthebookppl has a sporting goods sale, and @MovieMayor will give you one armrest (not two) for your new suit from Tip Top!

Grand opening specials included 2c 3 ring binders, 19c charcoal, 29c golf balls and $1.98 12 Volume Encyclopedia!

1959 picture of Coles fourth store at Lawrence Plaza. The store opened May 15, 1958 and was their largest one to date. Not only was it Toronto’s largest bookstore, it was also Toronto’s largest sports store! #colesbookstore #lawrenceplaza #oldtoronto #colesnotes

Here was the grand opening ad from the @TorontoStar on Oct 15, 1958. #dufferinmall #Toronto #Colesbookstore

Dufferin Plaza now known as @DufferinMall located just south of Bloor St on Dufferin Ave first opened in 1956 on a demolished racetrack and welcomed Coles Bookstore in 1958. It was Coles sixth store. #colesbookstore #Colesnotes #OldToronto

Merry Christmas! Santa visiting Yonge & Dundas in 1980. I heard he stopped off at Coles to get some last minute presents #Oldtoronto #Santa

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