thecharioteer
Senior Member
Spadina and Richmond SW corner:
1972:
2022:
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
- Thread starter Mustapha
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adma
Superstar
Visible on the right: the first CFTR billboard
(l-r: Earl Mann, Bob McAdorey, Chuck Christian)
(l-r: Earl Mann, Bob McAdorey, Chuck Christian)
Richard White
Senior Member
Visible on the right: the first CFTR billboard
(l-r: Earl Mann, Bob McAdorey, Chuck Christian)
Why do I think Bob McAdorey looks like the Smokes Poutinery guy?
adma
Superstar
While I know the old photo was the state it was in in 1926 (w/whatever alterations over the years), I wonder how many liberties were taken in the restoration, to make it a more "idealized" version of pre-Confederation architecture--something which was common practice in restoration (think Colonial Williamsburg) before a higher standard of historical/archaeological correctness came to be the norm over the past half century...
jaborandi
Active Member
Bob (the body beautiful) McAdorey was my boyhood hero on CHUMVisible on the right: the first CFTR billboard
(l-r: Earl Mann, Bob McAdorey, Chuck Christian)
adma
Superstar
*I'm* forever stunned by how proto-Banksy that billboard was.
thecharioteer
Senior Member
Spadina & Adelaide NW corner:
1911:
1972 (the Tower Building, completed in 1928):
2022:
1911:
1972 (the Tower Building, completed in 1928):
2022:
thecharioteer
Senior Member
Spadina & Adelaide SE corner:
1972:
2022:
1972:
2022:
thecharioteer
Senior Member
Spadina & Adelaide NE corner:
1911:
1972:
2022:
The Balfour Building (completed 1930):
1911:
1972:
2022:
The Balfour Building (completed 1930):
adma
Superstar
Ah, Niccolini billboards. Once such a Toronto fixture...
Goldie
Senior Member
Yonge at Bloor, S/W corner (1912)
Stollery's Men's Store was here in 1912 & remained until current construction.
Image from 2021
Stollery's Men's Store was here in 1912 & remained until current construction.
Image from 2021
Goldie
Senior Member
275 Yonge St. c.1978
LPCI
Active Member
Is that one of the Yonge St streetlights on the dormer in the c1978 photo?
adma
Superstar
You mean the ones installed after they buried the wires in tandem w/subway construction? Yup...
LPCI
Active Member
Been a while since I was on Yonge Street, how is it lit now?