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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

Images of the old Great Western Railway Station are among my favourites:

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DSC said:
The station building (Grand Trunk Railway) was at the corner of Yonge and The Esplanade and the photo is before the rail berm was completed - so probably before 1929. I think it had already closed as a station, I see no tracks.
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Yeah, it ws already a fruit market by then (the sign in the 1930 photo is discernable). Keep in mind that the rail viaduct behind Union Station wasn't finished until 1930, so they were busy getting that finished (the bridge was a temporary one while Bay was closed for the viaduct construction). The Royal York was finished in 1929, and its framework didn't get to this level until 1928; as for the "Admiral building", it was this one, finished in 1928, demolished mid-80s for BCE (the rooftop signage originally advertised the tenant Stimson)
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Commerce and Transportation Building, Bay and Front Streets, Toronto

Newspaper clipping with article about the Commerce and Transportation Building at Bay Street at Front Street West, Toronto which was designed by N. A. Armstrong Co., Ltd., with more details on ...
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall (1893) at the N/W corner of Yonge/College is a Toronto landmark and,
in particular, a landmark in my own history....That's where I worked during my first summer job (c.1949).
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Starbucks appears to have recently "left the building" and I'm amazed by that huge, new tower.
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Goldie said:
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall (1893) at the N/W corner of Yonge/College is a Toronto landmark and,
in particular, a landmark in my own history....That's where I worked during my first summer job (c.1949).
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Starbucks appears to have recently "left the building" and I'm amazed by that huge, new tower.
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Jeez Goldie. That must make you 85-90 years old?
 
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