Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Some interesting Toronto history awaits those intrigued by "The Stork Derby."

 

[DSC]

OK, you tweaked my interest!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby

https://torontoist.com/2016/10/historicist-the-stork-derby/

 

[Goldie]

Workers parade on Queen at Gladstone, c.1945

 

[DSC]

Here's a Google-now of the scene!

 

[Goldie]

Osgoode Hall 1884

Count the women!

 

[Goldie]

Launching of S.S. Corona at foot of Portland St., 1896 - TPL

 

[gary133]

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

The bridge was definitely there and I personally walked across it numerous times. As a university student around 1975 I has a part-time job at the Simpsons-Sears warehouse for the Christmas season. Known then as the Mail Order Building (MOB) the warehouse was part of the catalog shopping operation which was still huge. I was part of the crew that unloaded tractor trailers (loading docks on west side of bldg) and ran the goods up to the various floors on large freight elevators. Catalog orders would be picked and packed on the upper floors. On our break we would cross over the bridge to the cafeteria in the office building (the inverted pyramid). Funny to think that where I used to drop skids of Christmas toys is someone's apartment now.

 

[Goldie]

Curtiss Flying School - Mississauga 1916

 

[Goldie]

Awaiting Ont. election results, 1908 - on Bay at Melinda - TPL

 

[Goldie]

Willard's Monster Sawmill Special Effects Show, Toronto c.1911

 

[Goldie]

Glenn Gould c.1940 - Ont. Archives

 

[Goldie]

Ward's Hotel, Ward's Island c.1900 Ont. Arch.

 

[Goldie]

Murphy family with friends at cottage - Hanlan's Point, Toronto Islands c.1901 Ont. Archives

 

[Goldie]

William James family and neighbours c.1907 - lantern slide - City Toronto Archives

 

[Skeezix]

William James family and neighbours c.1907 - lantern slide - City Toronto Archives

I like how the man in the shade under the awning on the porch remains in black and white. The porch is Kansas, the front yard Oz.