I moved to Toronto in early 2007. Facebook was barely a thing. MySpace was on the decline. We all lived with roommates and our kitchen floors were grimy.

Most of us had flip-phones. Micker got an iPhone and told us it was the future.

We hung out Levack Block before there was anything else on Ossington. We partied at Strangelove on Thursday nights on College Street. We saw Junior Boys and Crystal Castles at Mod Club. We made pilgrimages to Circa, Club Paradise, and Stone’s Place.

We had a BBQ almost every weekend. We rode bikes to bars. We had costume parties for no reason. We threw knives and shot guns and crossbows indoors. We were Goldenboy, Salmoncake, and Bisensual painted in huge letters across the city.

We watched baseball games at Christie Pits and we climbed trees.

We spent most of our time roaming a square defined by Ossington, Bloor, Spadina, and Dundas.

It was a brief moment of time.

These are the photos that survived the era.