ceaz40
Active Member
I think if my memory serves me correctly, the Romans was located on the west side of Bay....that Coffee Time is on the east side. Also, I think it was located where Lumiere is being built or just north of there.
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
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I think if my memory serves me correctly, the Romans was located on the west side of Bay....that Coffee Time is on the east side. Also, I think it was located where Lumiere is being built or just north of there.
adma
Superstar
In terms of Toronto, Cities Service was absorbed by another chain (BP?) in the early 60s or so before it had a chance to become Citgo...
Mustapha
Senior Member
Welcome to Urban Toronto.
Speaking of noir, Yonge looking north at Adelaide, 1930's:
I like this noir stuff. Here is one of Dallas.
From the website:
http://www.shorpy.com/
600 pages of photographic goodness. Be warned, you can waste a lot of time there.
I knew. That this would come back to haunt me.
November 20 addition.
NE corner of Bloor and Spadina.
CityPlaceN1
Senior Member
Interesting to see that it was a Scotiabank even in the then photo.
Uncle Teddy
Senior Member
Wow you're right. They actually took a mansion and converted it into a bank.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
NE corner of Bloor and Spadina.
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this is one for the architects and designers among us to ponder. the 'Now' version is not particularly awful, and is in some ways not all that different from the original building. however, four major changes have been made:
1. the glass in the curtain wall is now broken up into a far more pronounced grid, and the drama of the large panes of glass is gone.
2. (most importantly, i think) the glass is now more or less flush with their frame, rather than being recessed.
3. they have moved the entrance further over, from the corner to the left middle of the facade.
4. they have recessed the entrance, and created a vestibule.
are all of these changes just change for changes sake? just the waxing and waning of trends in renovation and 'updating'? there doesn't seem to be any particular reason to do any of them. none of them are fatal, but they have definitely weakened the impact of the building...
this is one for the architects and designers among us to ponder. the 'Now' version is not particularly awful, and is in some ways not all that different from the original building. however, four major changes have been made:
1. the glass in the curtain wall is now broken up into a far more pronounced grid, and the drama of the large panes of glass is gone.
2. (most importantly, i think) the glass is now more or less flush with their frame, rather than being recessed.
3. they have moved the entrance further over, from the corner to the left middle of the facade.
4. they have recessed the entrance, and created a vestibule.
are all of these changes just change for changes sake? just the waxing and waning of trends in renovation and 'updating'? there doesn't seem to be any particular reason to do any of them. none of them are fatal, but they have definitely weakened the impact of the building...
The doors were moved over, it seems, to allow for easy access to the ABM machines that weren't there in the previous version.
taal
Senior Member
Other then moving the door, it was probably just cheaper to use smaller panes of glass.
Sometimes one can read to much into the little details
Sometimes one can read to much into the little details
thecharioteer
Senior Member
Bay Street between Queen and Bloor was constructed by linking together Terauley, St. Vincent, Chapel and North Streets (which accounts for the present-day weaving back and forth). The Toronto Archives contain some interesting photos of these lost streets. Here are a few from the area around St. Joseph Street.
1910 Goad Map:
NW corner of St. Joseph and Chapel:
40 St. Joseph (Bay now runs through the property):
Today:
One block south, west side of St. Vincent (Bay), north of Phipps:
Today:
1910 Goad Map:
NW corner of St. Joseph and Chapel:
40 St. Joseph (Bay now runs through the property):
Today:
One block south, west side of St. Vincent (Bay), north of Phipps:
Today:
thecharioteer
Senior Member
A few more from the Bay/Wellesley area:
NW corner of Bay and Breadalbane (Catholic school):
Today (Breadalbane no longer goes west of Bay):
NE corner of Bay and Wellesley, 1934, after the widening and extension:
Today:
NW corner of Bay and Breadalbane (Catholic school):
Today (Breadalbane no longer goes west of Bay):
NE corner of Bay and Wellesley, 1934, after the widening and extension:
Today:
LowPolygon
Senior Member
One block south, west side of St. Vincent (Bay), north of Phipps:
Today:
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charioteer. thanks for all these! i had no idea Bay was stitched together in that way...it partly explains why there isn't a single early 20th century building left standing on Bay St between Walton and Bloor--outside of the little house on the NW corner of Gerrard and the covered up Bistro 990 building south of St. Joseph...
Today:
charioteer. thanks for all these! i had no idea Bay was stitched together in that way...it partly explains why there isn't a single early 20th century building left standing on Bay St between Walton and Bloor--outside of the little house on the NW corner of Gerrard and the covered up Bistro 990 building south of St. Joseph...
thecharioteer
Senior Member
It would appear that hundreds of homes were demolished between Queen and Davenport by the "Terauley Extension" (north of Bloor, the blocks on Yorkville and Cumberland used to extend continuously between Yonge and Bellair).
Here are the engineering maps showing the route:
Here are the engineering maps showing the route:
thecharioteer
Senior Member
A few of the lost buildings and streetscapes of "Bay" Street:
Aladone
Active Member
Lets keep moving east along bloor...
this is one for the architects and designers among us to ponder. the 'Now' version is not particularly awful, and is in some ways not all that different from the original building. however, four major changes have been made:
1. the glass in the curtain wall is now broken up into a far more pronounced grid, and the drama of the large panes of glass is gone.
2. (most importantly, i think) the glass is now more or less flush with their frame, rather than being recessed.
3. they have moved the entrance further over, from the corner to the left middle of the facade.
4. they have recessed the entrance, and created a vestibule.
are all of these changes just change for changes sake? just the waxing and waning of trends in renovation and 'updating'? there doesn't seem to be any particular reason to do any of them. none of them are fatal, but they have definitely weakened the impact of the building...[/QUOTE]
Let's keep moving east along Bloor...
NE corner of Bloor and Spadina.
this is one for the architects and designers among us to ponder. the 'Now' version is not particularly awful, and is in some ways not all that different from the original building. however, four major changes have been made:
1. the glass in the curtain wall is now broken up into a far more pronounced grid, and the drama of the large panes of glass is gone.
2. (most importantly, i think) the glass is now more or less flush with their frame, rather than being recessed.
3. they have moved the entrance further over, from the corner to the left middle of the facade.
4. they have recessed the entrance, and created a vestibule.
are all of these changes just change for changes sake? just the waxing and waning of trends in renovation and 'updating'? there doesn't seem to be any particular reason to do any of them. none of them are fatal, but they have definitely weakened the impact of the building...[/QUOTE]
Let's keep moving east along Bloor...
Mustapha
Senior Member
A few of the lost buildings and streetscapes of "Bay" Street:
The two moppets are precious.