Coles Books

A tribute to Canada’s favourite bookstore and notes! instagram / Facebook account - @colesthebookpeople

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

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

[Laura Love @Panopticonomy]

I loved my fav bookstore! #Toronto

[Old Toronto Series @oldTOseries]

Yonge and Dundas in 1979

[Toronto Archives @TorontoArchives]

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. https://t.co/0ZlumdRIQJ #TOHistory #TorontoArchives

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

@TorontoArchives We ❤️ that corner!

[Toronto Archives @TorontoArchives]

Yonge Street looking south west from Charles Street, seen #OnThisDay 50 years ago. https://t.co/lKp4SZzZP2 #OTD #TorontoHistory #TorontoArchives

[Joseph Bloor, Esq., Toronto, C.W. @e_bloor]

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!

[Joseph Bloor, Esq., Toronto, C.W. @e_bloor]

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.

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

Yes!!

[Old Toronto Series @oldTOseries]

Did you go?

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

We do!

[Old Toronto Series @oldTOseries]

A list of the original stores in Square One in Mississauga in 1973. How many of these stores still exist?

[Michael Taube @michaeltaube]

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

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

@e_bloor @g_meslin @SenateCA 👆great pic

[Joseph Bloor, Esq., Toronto, C.W. @e_bloor]

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.

[Canada Soccer @CanadaSoccerEN]

That NINE point feeling 😍🍁

#CANMNT #WCQ #ForCanada

[Joseph Bloor, Esq., Toronto, C.W. @e_bloor]

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!

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

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

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

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

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

Here was the grand opening ad from the @TorontoStar on Oct 15, 1958.

#dufferinmall #Toronto #Colesbookstore

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

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

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

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

[Coles Books @Colesthebookppl]

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