Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Mustapha]

Sorry. You were asking for the street intersection right Mustapha?

street meet, yes, thanks much.

 

[thecharioteer]

Didn't people dress to the 9's back then because they were afraid of God's Wrath?

I don't think that little flapper by the light post would have been afraid of anything.

 

[Goldie]

A record?

Wow! This thread had now reached more than a hundred pages.

A great accomplishment. Could it be a world's record?

Congratulations to the participants.

 

[Mustapha]

I don't think that little flapper by the light post would have been afraid of anything.

She looks the real sweetheart. Perhaps she had a brassy personality too. I was trying to eavesdrop on their conversation from 79 years ago.

"Where should we eat?"

"What do you want to see next?"

"How much money do you have left?"

 

[jaborandi]

She looks the real sweetheart. Perhaps she had a brassy personality too. I was trying to eavesdrop on their conversation from 79 years ago.

"Where should we eat?"

"What do you want to see next?"

"How much money do you have left?"

I think she was talking about her friend Elsie who goes "all the way"

 

[thecharioteer]

I think she was talking about her friend Elsie who goes "all the way"

Is that the girlfriend Elsie who used to have two sordid rooms in Swansea?

 

[jaborandi]

Is that the girlfriend Elsie who used to have two sordid rooms in Swansea?

Almost. It was Chelsea. Not counting the collieries, I don't think they have sordid rooms in Wales. At least I didn't see any.

 

[Mustapha]

I think she was talking about her friend Elsie who goes "all the way"

Is that the girlfriend Elsie who used to have two sordid rooms in Swansea?

Almost. It was Chelsea. Not counting the collieries, I don't think they have sordid rooms in Wales. At least I didn't see any.

I left this thread wide open to this and for that I am deeply sorry.

 

[thecharioteer]

I left this thread wide open to this and for that I am deeply sorry.

No apologies necessary. Jaborandi misunderstood the "Caberet" reference to Swansea; it was referring to Swansea near High Park, which definitely has its share of sordid rooms.

 

[jaborandi]

No apologies necessary. Jaborandi misunderstood the "Caberet" reference to Swansea; it was referring to Swansea near High Park, which definitely has its share of sordid rooms.

No no, I understood the local angle but being a bit of a purist at heart I bristle at the ebb and flow of geographical references... besides which, it was four sordid rooms.

Sorry about the highjacking Mustapha. No more Elsie chat from me.

 

[thecharioteer]

No no, I understood the local angle but being a bit of a purist at heart I bristle at the ebb and flow of geographical references... besides which, it was four sordid rooms.

Sorry about the highjacking Mustapha. No more Elsie chat from me.

I stand corrected, J., and will also desist from any more about Elsie.

 

[adma]

Wow I love the lights in this pic! So Deco!

Except for the "spurts" atop them, I don't find them terribly Deco. But what really intrigues me are those houses on the left (are those really houses?!? in the Ex grounds?!?)

 

[DSC]

The building at King and Berkeley, NE corner has a Heritage Toronto plaque saying it was originally a pharmacy.

 

[thecharioteer]

Except for the "spurts" atop them, I don't find them terribly Deco. But what really intrigues me are those houses on the left (are those really houses?!? in the Ex grounds?!?)

These maps from 1898 and 1910 show Dufferin extending south right to the lake. Those houses must be on the other side of Dufferin.

 

[Edward]

Houses extended all the way to the lake in that area until the Gardiner was built.