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CliffColeclough
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Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966
The Bloor Bay/Yonge is mindblowing.
The Bloor Bay/Yonge is mindblowing.
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adma
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Though that does look a bit like a juvenile-delinquent ruffian leaning on the right side of the Bloor streetcar platform shot...
Though that does look a bit like a juvenile-delinquent ruffian leaning on the right side of the Bloor streetcar platform shot...
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Crazy Canuck07
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Oh how I wish I had a time machine. Those pictures are amazing!
Oh how I wish I had a time machine. Those pictures are amazing!
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fiendishlibrarian
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Bloor Spadina
Bloor Spadina, looking east
Yonge, looking south, north of Jolly Miller hotel, 1936
Dupont
Bloor, near Avenue
1962
Last Dupont car, 1963
New New Looks
Avenue Road and Fairlawn, 1965. Still similar today.
Queen and Roncesvalles, 1967
Yonge, near Lawrence
Dufferin Loop, 1961
Carlton, east of Yonge, 1930
What the what was electric tattooing? Even back then?
Maple Leaf Gardens hoarding going up
King, 1936, looking east to Bay
Imperial Bank of Canada, King and Bay, 1940s
Bank of Nova Scotia
Where FCP is now
Lansdowne car barn, 1911
Cobbles on Bloor
Yonge/Queen
Moron
St. Clair and Bathurst
No SUV strollers at Yonge and Queen
Location?
Dundas and Bay
And finally, some sound words to live by
Bloor Spadina
Bloor Spadina, looking east
Yonge, looking south, north of Jolly Miller hotel, 1936
Dupont
Bloor, near Avenue
1962
Last Dupont car, 1963
New New Looks
Avenue Road and Fairlawn, 1965. Still similar today.
Queen and Roncesvalles, 1967
Yonge, near Lawrence
Dufferin Loop, 1961
Carlton, east of Yonge, 1930
What the what was electric tattooing? Even back then?
Maple Leaf Gardens hoarding going up
King, 1936, looking east to Bay
Imperial Bank of Canada, King and Bay, 1940s
Bank of Nova Scotia
Where FCP is now
Lansdowne car barn, 1911
Cobbles on Bloor
Yonge/Queen
Moron
St. Clair and Bathurst
No SUV strollers at Yonge and Queen
Location?
Dundas and Bay
And finally, some sound words to live by
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adma
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Yonge/Eg reminds us of how once upon a time, long long before Dundas Square, urban nodes and pivot points were great gathering spots for rooftop neon spectaculars--unfortunately, what was left of them tended to be deemed power-costly, inflexible and irredemably vulgar and were swept away for billboards and redevelopment by the 70s (the Gardinerscape being a partial exception).
The present-day sentimentality t/w Citgo in Boston proves the "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" credo re rooftop neon, certainly. (And interestingly, I recall the tradition still being healthy in perfectly Euro-places like Barcelona in the 80s--whether Olympic-mania swept it away or not, I do not know.)
Maybe there's a point--it isn't that all this junk should be confined to Dundas Square, it's that it ought to be spread all around the city, recreate a c1960 major-intersection roofscape via LED technology, etc. Resurrect the Bloor/Jane Goodyear sign, that sort of thing...
Yonge/Eg reminds us of how once upon a time, long long before Dundas Square, urban nodes and pivot points were great gathering spots for rooftop neon spectaculars--unfortunately, what was left of them tended to be deemed power-costly, inflexible and irredemably vulgar and were swept away for billboards and redevelopment by the 70s (the Gardinerscape being a partial exception).
The present-day sentimentality t/w Citgo in Boston proves the "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" credo re rooftop neon, certainly. (And interestingly, I recall the tradition still being healthy in perfectly Euro-places like Barcelona in the 80s--whether Olympic-mania swept it away or not, I do not know.)
Maybe there's a point--it isn't that all this junk should be confined to Dundas Square, it's that it ought to be spread all around the city, recreate a c1960 major-intersection roofscape via LED technology, etc. Resurrect the Bloor/Jane Goodyear sign, that sort of thing...
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ganjavih
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Sigh... so neat to see, yet so sad.
Sigh... so neat to see, yet so sad.
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adma
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More comments:
(1) Philip Johnson's Torno Penthouse under construction!
(2) Re Bloor-Bay, could some vestiges of the old still exist in the alley behind Holt Renfrew (i.e. how much of that was a refacing, rather than something altogether new, possibly?
(3) That Queen/Roncy shot captures one of those old "diving helmet" traffic-island reflectors; I think the last of those (well into the 80s, maybe even the 90s) was at the entrance to the Chrysler plant on Brown's Line...
(4) What you identify as "Yonge, near Lawrence" is Eglinton looking E from Oriole Parkway...
(5) That "Location?" thing, it's (pre-1-way) Adelaide looking E from Bay (I thought it might have been further W than Bay; but I think that curtain-walled thing at the far right was one of those things demolished for Scotia Plaza...)
More comments:
(1) Philip Johnson's Torno Penthouse under construction!
(2) Re Bloor-Bay, could some vestiges of the old still exist in the alley behind Holt Renfrew (i.e. how much of that was a refacing, rather than something altogether new, possibly?
(3) That Queen/Roncy shot captures one of those old "diving helmet" traffic-island reflectors; I think the last of those (well into the 80s, maybe even the 90s) was at the entrance to the Chrysler plant on Brown's Line...
(4) What you identify as "Yonge, near Lawrence" is Eglinton looking E from Oriole Parkway...
(5) That "Location?" thing, it's (pre-1-way) Adelaide looking E from Bay (I thought it might have been further W than Bay; but I think that curtain-walled thing at the far right was one of those things demolished for Scotia Plaza...)
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thx1038
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wow. more please more. interesting idea about make a part of the city 60's authentic.
wow. more please more. interesting idea about make a part of the city 60's authentic.
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jayomatic
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I would love to get all of these framed. Are these pictures available at high rez?
I would love to get all of these framed. Are these pictures available at high rez?
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wyliepoon
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Are these photos all just sitting in the City of Toronto archives right now? If so, then they shouldn't be. Hopefully there'll be a City of Toronto Museum (aka Humanitas) soon where we'll be able to find photos like these.
Are these photos all just sitting in the City of Toronto archives right now? If so, then they shouldn't be. Hopefully there'll be a City of Toronto Museum (aka Humanitas) soon where we'll be able to find photos like these.
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billy corgan19982
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Great thread! Keep the pictures coming.
Great thread! Keep the pictures coming.
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fiendishlibrarian
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M1 at Rosedale (with Vitrolite)
Lansdowne, north past Royce. Note CPR level crossing
Ossington
Weston near Lawrence, 1963
Lawrence approaching Weston
Same intersection, 1967
Weston Plaza, 1971
Oakwood, north of St. Clair
Bloor and Avenue
Jane near Lawrence, 1967
Janeway Supertest, 1967.
M1 at Rosedale (with Vitrolite)
Lansdowne, north past Royce. Note CPR level crossing
Ossington
Weston near Lawrence, 1963
Lawrence approaching Weston
Same intersection, 1967
Weston Plaza, 1971
Oakwood, north of St. Clair
Bloor and Avenue
Jane near Lawrence, 1967
Janeway Supertest, 1967.
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CliffColeclough
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One of the best threads in a long time. Every picture just blows me away. I totally love the one of the Miller Tavern (now known just as The Miller - fantastic fried oysters, I recommend them). Yonge Street - just one lane. Wow.
One of the best threads in a long time. Every picture just blows me away. I totally love the one of the Miller Tavern (now known just as The Miller - fantastic fried oysters, I recommend them). Yonge Street - just one lane. Wow.
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adma
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I can see somebody trying to resurrect Jerry Purcell's as the template for a hip eatery on King West or something...
I can see somebody trying to resurrect Jerry Purcell's as the template for a hip eatery on King West or something...