Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Red October]

Is that the First Canadian Place podium now (the building with the tower)?

I'd say it was a bad loss for just a podium, but if that's the site then it was actually replaced first by the Art Deco Bank of Montreal building.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=200644&page=2

 

[Goldie]

Construction of Telegram Bldg. at Bay & Melinda, 1898

Telegram Bldg, c.1900 ------ demolished in 1963
Melinda intersection at Bay no longer exists

 

[Goldie]

750-752 Bay St., 1931

 

[adma]

How long was Lyons Realty active? I remember seeing nearly identical signs perhaps going into the 70s, even...

 

[Goldie]

York Station, Main St. at Danforth, 1906

 

[Goldie]

Royal York Hotel under construction, 1928

 

[DSC]

One cannot get the same view now but this is presumably the York teamway being built.

 

[Goldie]

I attempted a "Now" view in 2015:

 

[Goldie]

Hanlan's Point, Toronto Islands, 1907?

 

[DSC]

Yes, new to me too!

 

[Goldie]

I had no idea this sky bridge ever existed.

Mutual St. and Gould St., looking south - 1972

Could it be that this is just an image of an architect's proposal and was never built?

 

[CharlotteR]

Could it be that this is just an image of an architect's proposal and was never built?

Nothing I'm willing to hang my own hat on, but it sure *looks* like it's there. The 1983 image seems a bit clearer.

(Images: City of Toronto Archives, Series 12, 1975, Image 52; City of Toronto Archives, Series 12, 1983, Image 51.)

 

[Rusty]

Nothing I'm willing to hang my own hat on, but it sure *looks* like it's there

Makes sense to to have the Sears Office connected to the warehouse.

 

[adma]

It was definitely there. Dunno when it came down; maybe around whatever 80s/90s time the Simpsons-Sears empire began to decompose...

 

[Skeezix]

Simpsons-Sears disappeared in 1984, after a few tumultuous years during which HBC bought Simpsons, sold its shares in Simpson-Sears, and Sears absorbed Simpsons-Sears. Sears kept using the Mutual Street warehouse until the 1990s, a decade during which it was one of Canada's stronger retail chains. Other than the dissolution of the former Simpsons Sears joint venture in the 1980s, the company didn't really start to decompose per se until 2004 when Lampert and ESL got their hands on Sears in the U.S. and Cohen was turfed as CEO in Canada.

My guess is that the skywalk disappeared in the 1990s when the warehouse was sold.