Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[DarkSideDenizen]

David Dunlap Observatory 1933, Photo Courtesy Town of Richmond Hill

2024

David Dunlap Observatory 1933, Photo Courtesy The Varsity

2024

 

[lenaitch]

Back then it would have been truly out in the boonies with no light pollution.

 

[Northern Light]

Then:

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbi...cs4g4e3FNSIwGwm_NtbGXxhBbTEEZ7w&__tn__=EH-y-R


Now: (Streetview - Sept '21)

 

[thecharioteer]

A good illustration of the homoginization of Yonge. Nostalgia aside, gone are the free-standing cinemas, live music, record stores, book stores, bars, clubs, one-off restaurants, mom-and-pop stores, piano and music stores, bowling alleys and department stores.

 

[flonicky]

Bloor & Bathurst, 2006:

Streetview, 2018:

2024:

 

[thecharioteer]

Bloor looking east at Avenue Road:

Early 1960's:

Now (photo by Blixtein on The One thread):

 

[adma]

When it comes to dating assistance, is that a '63 Pontiac on the right?

 

[lenaitch]

When it comes to dating assistance, is that a '63 Pontiac on the right?

Yes.

 

[thecharioteer]

And the Britannica building opened in 1962.

 

[adma]

I'm also wondering when Britannica started to sport its rooftop sign (which was a landmark all the way through the 80s, and what most remember the building for)

 

[thecharioteer]

I'm also wondering when Britannica started to sport its rooftop sign (which was a landmark all the way through the 80s, and what most remember the building for)

Interesting question. This postcard shows the sign and given that the streetcar tracks were removed in 1966 and the ManuLife Centre started construction in 1970, it was at least there during this period.

 

[jaborandi]

Bloor looking east at Avenue Road:

Early 1960's:

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Now (photo by Blixtein on The One thread):

The liver & onions at Palmers Drugs was particularly tasty.

 

[adHominem]

I don't have a "now" to go with, but my photos app served me an "on this day" memory that made for a pretty striking "then". This is looking west from the top of the TD Centre during Doors Open, 2004. Missing from this view are all the condos of Liberty Village and the Ordnance Triangle, all the towers of Humber Bay Shores, all the condos in the Fort York neighbourhood, The Well, and all of Cityplace. Instead, please enjoy the old Molson brewery on Fleet St and the little par-3 golf course that was briefly at Spadina & Bremner.

Edit: I do have a "now" version – I forgot I went up the TD Centre again at Doors Open last year! (Cameras got better, obviously)

 

[DRKSTR47]

Please delete if not suitable. I'm trying to source a previous picture of 252 Dupont Street. It was a funeral home which was, for a time taken over by Rochdale College as a free clinic. I lived in this building before they took over and, unfortunately, was not a photographer at that time of my life... this would have been in the early 1970's. Thanks for any assistance.

 

[DSC]

King and Frederick looking west 1909 )TPL) and 2018 - note (former) bank building at corner of George.