Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Theatre at Richmond St. E. - S/W corner Victoria St. .....1956 .....TPL

 

[Goldie]

Ward's Island - tent colony at Eastern Gap ...1923

 

[Goldie]

Royal York Hotel 1928 LAC

 

[TransitBart]

Royal York Hotel 1928 LAC
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Wow. Steel frame. Like Rockefeller Centre in New York.

 

[Goldie]

The Canadian Room-Royal York Hotel 1960 LAC

 

[steveintoronto]

You're killing me...! Whoa...

Mavety St., E. side, S. of Dundas St. W. ....1956 ......TPL

Let me guess, the now reused TPL 11 Division replaced it?

Ward's Island - tent colony at Eastern Gap ...1923

OK, I recognize the ferry...but was it headed across the Lake to Niagara?

The Canadian Room-Royal York Hotel 1960 LAC

Is that a painting, or a highly saturated or retouched Polaroid perchance?

I have a photographer friend visiting from Holland again, she's in Montreal this week, went to a number of the photo exhibits last week but next week we're headed to the TPL to find historical photos. I'm not counting my chick peas until the cockerel crows salad on what we come away with. I'll be posting something good here. In fact, I should ask her to. She has a fascination for Toronto.

 

[Goldie]

OK, I recognize the ferry...but was it headed across the Lake to Niagara?

If it's headed for Niagara it may be the Cayuga Steamship.

Is that a painting, or a highly saturated or retouched Polaroid perchance?

It's probably a highly retouched photograph.

 

[Goldie]

Radio tower atop Toronto Star Building. 1922 TPL

 

[thecharioteer]

Yonge Street east side, north of Adelaide in 1911, showing the Arcade Building (TPL):

 

[thecharioteer]

Yonge Street east side, north of Adelaide in 1911, showing the Arcade Building (TPL):

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The building do the left of the Arcade Building was the Crystal Palace, shown here in 1915:

 

[Goldie]

I remember visiting the Arcade (as a child) and being fascinated by the window display in a Magic Shop.
Too bad there's no photo in the archives of that window display.
Perhaps we need to photograph today's displays for the amazement of future generations.

'Pointers' from Arcade Guide and Record 1884

 

[Goldie]

King Edward Hotel envelope 1910 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Dominion Bank run 1923

 

[steveintoronto]

Dominion Bank run 1923

I was just Googling to research that, I find it so fascinating, and this was six years from "the Crash", so one wonders if the Home Bank (the last federally regulated (chartered bank) failure in Canada) was associated with this, and if this was a 'precursor' for what was to come? https://torontoist.com/2013/08/historicist-the-home-banks-house-of-cards/
Anyway, this showed in my Google search:

Goldie, Mar 9, 2018
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Run on the Dominion Bank, Bloor at Bathurst 1923

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/miscellany-toronto-photographs-then-and-now.6947/page-938

Just as tasty second time around!

 

[Goldie]

Amazing what will pop up online, isn't it?
That guy (Goldie) must be obsessed by bank failures!