Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Michael Bruce]

Just a little side note Mustapha. My guess is that the Quaker mural was painted on that wall between 1903 & 1913. The 1903 goads map has vacant property just north of where the mural is. The 1913 map is filled in with units all the way north to Bloor.

 

[junctionist]

The old neighbourhood bank branches contribute so much great architecture to the city. We're blessed that we had an era in our history when banks took architecture seriously. Newer cities like Mississauga don't have that layer of history.

 

[Mustapha]

Just a little side note Mustapha. My guess is that the Quaker mural was painted on that wall between 1903 & 1913. The 1903 goads map has vacant property just north of where the mural is. The 1913 map is filled in with units all the way north to Bloor.View attachment 135853 View attachment 135854

So cool, Michael. And to think even those who were children who last laid eyes on that mural in, say 1910, are no longer with us.

To me, seeing these uncovered, and knowing they won't stay that way for long, is quite the thing.

 

[Christine Hobberlin-Hynso]

Anyone know if there's a connection between the Hobberlin Company and the former Hobberlin Museum in North York?

Yes, there is a connection. The Hobberlin Museum was owned and operated by my mother, Hedy Hobberlin and myself, Christine Hobberlin. We ran the museum for over 20 years but financial cut backs forced the Toronto District school board to terminate our contract in 2002. I still have a large number of museum specimens (mammoth tusls, polar bear (!), bison head, human and animal bones?rocks, crystals, fossils, dinosaur bones, as well as space technology and actual space shuttle tiles and meteorites, just to name a few things) but the current education climate is not interested in restarting the museum. It's a shame because we offered natural history programs that nicely complemented the Grades 2-13 Science, History, Geography and other mandated subjects.

I would love to reopen the museum and would welcome any comments or suggestions. Thanks, Christine.

 

[DSC]

Here's a more recent version of Goldie's photo

 

[thecharioteer]

Yes, there is a connection. The Hobberlin Museum was owned and operated by my mother, Hedy Hobberlin and myself, Christine Hobberlin. We ran the museum for over 20 years but financial cut backs forced the Toronto District school board to terminate our contract in 2002. I still have a large number of museum specimens (mammoth tusls, polar bear (!), bison head, human and animal bones?rocks, crystals, fossils, dinosaur bones, as well as space technology and actual space shuttle tiles and meteorites, just to name a few things) but the current education climate is not interested in restarting the museum. It's a shame because we offered natural history programs that nicely complemented the Grades 2-13 Science, History, Geography and other mandated subjects.

I would love to reopen the museum and would welcome any comments or suggestions. Thanks, Christine.

Is this the same family that had the Hobberlin Building at Yonge & Richmond?

 

[Goldie]

Thanks for that 1913 image, thecharioteer.
I love the details:
- THE HAT FOR EVERY MAN
- HOBB ERLIN BUIL DING
- FINE CANDY
- PURE ICE CREAM
- CIGAR
- CASH TAILOR

 

[Michael Bruce]

So cool, Michael. And to think even those who were children who last laid eyes on that mural in, say 1910, are no longer with us.

To me, seeing these uncovered, and knowing they won't stay that way for long, is quite the thing.

I'm sure we will be seeing more pop up in between stores that were built at different times. Here is one that we will never see again thanks to the condo next door.

 

[Richard White]

I'm sure we will be seeing more pop up in between stores that were built at different times. Here is one that we will never see again thanks to the condo next door.View attachment 135934

Where is this?

 

[doug]

Where is this?

Gerrard and Jarvis

 

[Goldie]

Sightseeing 1910

Sightseeing 2013

 

[LPCI]

 

[LPCI]

New to uploading photos.
Then is Guytoi Court, Don Mills, 1956. Other is Google image now. Way more trees now!

 

[Mustapha]

New to uploading photos.
Then is Guytoi Court, Don Mills, 1956. Other is Google image now. Way more trees now!

Annnn-d, here's the story behind the odd name.

https://donmills.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/how-guytoi-court-got-its-name/

 

[LPCI]

Interesting story. Thank you. I watched all the apartment buildings being built from my house, the Library originally was a travelling bus, the Post Office was a wooden shack.