The Making of a Medley
Newsstand: November 23, 2009
Transit City and Transit Cities
The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Televisualist: A Kinder, Gentler Televisualist
With today marking the first day back to school for most students in the city, we take this opportunity to let parents know who runs the institutions that will mould your children into upstanding young citizens...or at least the people who ran the show in Leaside 50 years ago.
Founded in 1920, the Leaside Board of Education operated out of Leaside High School by the time today's ad appeared. Besides the high school, the board's responsibilities in 1958 included three public schools (Bessborough, Rolph Road, Northlea) and one separate school (St. Anselm). The board merged with East York's educational overseers when the two municipalities amalgamated in 1967.
Source: The Leaside Story, 1958
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What does that bit at the bottom where it says "Telephone - HU. - 5-4491" mean? Perhaps I'm being overwhelmingly ignorant, but were telephone numbers only five digits at some point?
HU was a telephone exchange. If you spell it out on a phone, you get 48 to complete 485-4491.
HU was "HUDSON". There are sites out there that list all the old telephone exchanges. I believe that the name convention for the exchanges was abandoned in 1961 or 1962, however they still live on for the most part.