Edward
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That's one I never knew about.
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
- Thread starter Mustapha
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TKTKTK
Senior Member
By the time they tore it down, I'm pretty sure it had lost its columns and pediment. I'll find the photo I'm thinking of when I get home
adma
Superstar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mercer_Reformatory_for_Women
Interesting to consider it lasted until about 1970--I don't know what condition the building was in (did it still have its tower?), but that was about the absolutest last possible moment such a building could bite the dust undocumented and unlamented--half a decade before 999 Queen...
Mustapha
Senior Member
Jan 6 addition
Then: Wellington looking west from York
Further along in time...
Now:
Then: Wellington looking west from York
Further along in time...
Now:
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adma
Superstar
The last one is west of Bay, not York.
Mustapha
Senior Member
Sorry, incorrect pic removed. Will fix by next Monday; I only have time to take pics on weekends. Thanks adma.
Mustapha
Senior Member
Jan 7 addition
Yonge and Wellington looking NW.
Yonge and Wellington looking NW.
Anth
Active Member
What a different world we inhabit where fireproofing is no longer a selling point.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
The Hotel Victoria strikes me as a good candidate to be turned into something swanky, with a few fancy floors added atop.
I preferred Dickinson's building before it was re-clad, somewhat dowdy though it was.
I preferred Dickinson's building before it was re-clad, somewhat dowdy though it was.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
Thanks everyone.
Hey when they torn this sucka down they probably said... it's ok, it's fake Roman...
It looked like this by 1930...(without the extra drawn-in line work)
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adma
Superstar
Though wasn't it already reclaimed from the realm of the dingy a couple of decades ago? I mean, why swankify now; it seems solid, well-run, and untawdry for what it is. It's a shame Toronto doesn't have more Hotel Victorias, in fact.
Rather than swankifying the Victoria, I'd suggest a Victoriesque renewal of the Strathcona by stripping the siding and restoring some semblance of meat-and-potatoes 50s chic.
An unsung urban landmark is the old milk-bottles-and-cat sign in the Victoria's back alley (though it's been "tagged")
Mustapha
Senior Member
Jan 8 addition
Thanks TKTKTK... "Moshers", the sign says; I wonder what the dealey was there?
Melinda and Bay.
Thanks TKTKTK... "Moshers", the sign says; I wonder what the dealey was there?
Melinda and Bay.
The Telegram newspaper building. Cool!
Blovertis
Active Member
A typical scene of the Fifties: Workers busily disfiguring (or demolishing) another handsome old building.
Mustapha
Senior Member
Looks like they're removing the pediment above the clock; supposing some engineer said it was in danger of coming down; same for the lintel (izzat the right word?) above the 4th floor windows.