Also, the Simpson Tower was completed in 1968 and it does not appear in the archival photo. Notwithstanding its setback, it left only three windows exposed in the Bay/Richmond building, and it the photo there are four windows:
Front Street, looking east from Bathurst:
1908 (note the dome from Loretto Abbey to the east, now the site of The Well):
1980's:
Today (photo by Red Mars):
There is the master plan for a linear park linking Queen's Park and University Avenue designed by Public Work landscape architects:
https://publicwork.ca/projects/to-core-great-streets-transformation?category=civic-infrastructure
These two pics from 1931 show the laying of the re-aligning of the streetcar tracks to link Carlton and College. One can see the exposed side of the buildings remaining on the NE corner of Yonge and Carlton after demolition. Apparently this work was part of a depression relief program set up...
Just realized that this pic of the SE corner of Yonge & Carlton from 1937 shows the interim period between the reconfiguration of the intersection and the construction of Kresge's. Methodist church behind: