Mustapha
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Then and Now for April 9, 2013.
Then. Adelaide looking W from Simcoe today. Same date as yesterday - June 7, 1911.
There is more 'transportation excitement' today than yesterday - streetcar rails are being laid in this view.
The natty smoking bowler hatted gent is contemplating the beckoning future of railed street transport. Parallel Steel Ribbons; hulking electrified one eyed monsters athwart them, demolishing Time and Space; that is, until you get behind the stop and go mass of cars on Queen westbound from about, oh say, Sorauren, in the evening rush hour.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Now. September 2012.
In the right distance in the middle of the roadway of the Then picture, a cyclist can be seen. To his approximate right would have been 224 Adelaide W. It's a fast food place now but a tantalizing glimpse of the past can be seen above it.
Then. Adelaide looking W from Simcoe today. Same date as yesterday - June 7, 1911.
There is more 'transportation excitement' today than yesterday - streetcar rails are being laid in this view.
The natty smoking bowler hatted gent is contemplating the beckoning future of railed street transport. Parallel Steel Ribbons; hulking electrified one eyed monsters athwart them, demolishing Time and Space; that is, until you get behind the stop and go mass of cars on Queen westbound from about, oh say, Sorauren, in the evening rush hour.
![1051.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/JeffLow/default%202/1051.jpg)
Now. September 2012.
![1052.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/JeffLow/default%202/1052.jpg)
In the right distance in the middle of the roadway of the Then picture, a cyclist can be seen. To his approximate right would have been 224 Adelaide W. It's a fast food place now but a tantalizing glimpse of the past can be seen above it.
![1052a.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/JeffLow/default%202/1052a.jpg)
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