I've said it before: All these shots of the rail yards dominating lakefront Toronto is a punch to the gut of nostalgia, when I was a little boy and my dad would take me to Jays' games at the Ex. Taking the subway and streetcar, walking there, and the overwhelming sprawl of the railway (always...
The 1900 photo of Old City Hall instantly reminded me of the Titanic. Awesome!
*edit* Any political undertones in the above message are unintentional. I meant that at face value, that it reminds me of photos I've seen of the Titanic!
Cool! What's the history of the CityTV building? And what's it used for now, aside from getting things onto my television? (I know I can look this up but the hivemind here is way more interesting)
Young(ish) man here: I remember being a child in the 80s and going to Blue Jays games with my dad. All those railways running west of Bathurst, wow, total nostalgia. Thank you, Goldie, great way to start my morning!
I work in Pickering and the Pickering Town Centre mall recently changed its sign to a similar black lettering that lights up white at night. Curious about how they achieve that
Mustapha, I took a philosophy course at University in the early 2000s. They said the internet was like the libraries of yore. Back then, before the printing press (or even before mass publishing), there was one copy of a book and if the owner destroyed it, it was gone (Great Library of...
I know many of you have seen this before, but here's a map of Toronto from 1842. Love it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Toronto_Cane_map_1842.jpg
I'd post the image but then it would be too small to read
Here's an even earlier view, from 1829. According to Wikipedia, the church above was the 2nd version with the one we have today completed in the 1850s. The image below shows the first version