Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[thecharioteer]

College at University looking east.

Streetview 2009:
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2023:
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Same view 1925:

1951:

 

[richsherb]

Looking east, Richmond and Parliament.
THEN: Sept 30, 2005

NOW: Oct 11, 2023

 

[thecharioteer]

Looking east, Richmond and Parliament.
THEN: Sept 30, 2005
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NOW: Oct 11, 2023
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Amazing comparison! I think about that green space on Power Street, between the Richmond and Adelaide ramps of the DVP which once housed the charitable Houses of Providence:

 

[thecharioteer]

Yonge and Queen 1939:

1977:

Today (pic by ADRM on 2 Queen West thread):

 

[lenaitch]

Looks like they're getting ready for the Royal visit.

 

[thecharioteer]

The Royal visit 1939:

 

[Northern Light]

A straight lift of the 'Then and Now' from FB, as per the below; s/w corner Adelaide and Church:

The transition of the former to the latter should be considered a crime.

 

[TwinHuey]

It would seem that these beauties are all gone then (from 1915, 1924 and 1931):

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More of today's Bluffs. The music is the Flower Duet from the opera Lakmé.

 

[adma]

The transition of the former to the latter should be considered a crime.

More on grounds of the dull barrel-bottom "bureaucratic Moderne" replacement and its fortress-like stance relative to the corner. However, to be fair, the original would almost certainly have been viewed as nothing more than a dated eyesore in the 1930s...

 

[DSC]

A straight lift of the 'Then and Now' from FB, as per the below; s/w corner Adelaide and Church:

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The transition of the former to the latter should be considered a crime.

The building is about to undergo another 'face lift"! https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/67-adelaide-st-e-revovation-na-me-res-4s-hilditch.32982/page-2

 

[TwinHuey]

A neighbour who has lived in Cliffcrest for over 70 years sent me this clipping.

Trying to figure out where it landed from recent drone shots.

Could be here...??

 

[Northern Light]

Looking at @TwinHuey 's set above.....:

This building: (then)

Is this building (now)

 

[Northern Light]

South West Corner of College and Bay (1923)

Sourced as credited above: (watermark)

Today:

Note that what we know today as the Canadian Blood Services building appears in both photos.

 

[thecharioteer]

King & Church 1914:

Today ( photo by mburrr on 65 King E thread):

 

[TwinHuey]

Looking at @TwinHuey 's set above.....:

This building: (then)

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Is this building (now)

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Good catch!

Changes since that photo was taken 70 years ago:

Barbara Ann Scott: Was then 25 yrs old. She got married and moved to the USA in 1955. She passed away in 2012.
https://skatecanada.ca/corporate/barbara-ann-scott/

The helicopter: Was one of two Hiller 360's purchased by Kenting Aviation in 1950. Its sister ship crashed in the Yukon in 1952. Likely removed from service in the early 1960's.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-helicopter-restoration-museum-1.5082248

That section of Kingston Rd: Nothing