Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Lone Primate]

Looks like it was gone by 2005, along with the terrazzo floor. The 2011 view is a cross between Detroit and Clockwork Orange.

VERY good description.

That modern view is unspeakably depressing.

 

[Mustapha]

Gibson Lane - formerly Rosedale Lane. One of the lost paths down to Park Road, along with the cut off Severn Street just south of it. Here are better photos of that house on the right side of the image - taken by the Department of Health, 1913.

A most fascinating and succinct addition. Thanks for digging this up AlexCorey.

 

[Mustapha]

VERY good description.

I got a chuckle too; such clever phrasing.

 

[Mustapha]

I had to Google "Adele Blood". There's an interesting Wikipedia entry for this nearly forgotten actress and her sad life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Blood

That was interesting. I wonder sometimes about the attraction of obscure historia - objects, images, places, ideas; why they engage and interest us...

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for April 18, 2013.



Then. BaBloor Hotel [what an awkward name...] 1163 - 1167 Bay Street, between Charles and Bloor, c1945.

Now. October 2012.

 

[Mustapha]

"Echoes of Winston's funeral: You could imagine time had stood still... if it wasn't for the different skyline.

Striking similarities between pictures of Baroness Thatcher's funeral and Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965.
Both photographed looking along Fleet Street on the way to St Paul's.
But there have been some radical additions to City of London skyline."




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gine-time-stood--wasnt-different-skyline.html

 

[Goldie]

"Echoes of Winston's funeral: You could imagine time had stood still... if it wasn't for the different skyline.

Striking similarities between pictures of Baroness Thatcher's funeral and Sir Winston Churchill's in 1965.
Both photographed looking along Fleet Street on the way to St Paul's.
But there have been some radical additions to City of London skyline."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gine-time-stood--wasnt-different-skyline.html

Thanks, Mustapha - Excellent 'Then & Nows' of two memorable funerals.

When was the last time Toronto had crowds like this at a funeral?

Funeral procession of Sir Oliver Mowat on Yonge St. 1903

 

[mattelderca]

Thanks, Mustapha - Excellent 'Then & Nows' of two memorable funerals.

When was the last time Toronto had crowds like this at a funeral?

About a year and a half ago!
http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/08/toronto_says_goodbye_to_jack_layton_/

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for April 19, 2013.



Then. Canadian Bank of Commerce. Yonge and Bloor Branch. NW corner. c1922. Picture sourced by wwwebster. Sometimes I forget to mention this.

Now. October 2012.

 

[thecharioteer]

Sigh....

 

[CityPlaceN1]

Cool shot of the original Pilot location. Big drinking hangout for the Yorkville crowd.

 

[Mustapha]

thecharioteer, don't sigh.. the Pilot only moved around the corner.

 

[Mustapha]

Many more 'Tely' pics at York U's great resource since I last looked.

http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/x...e=Toronto+Telegram+fonds,+F0433&type=relation

 

[adma]

Also an useful reminder that once upon a time, what's now known as the Co-operators was known as "CIA"(as in "Co-operators Insurance Association")

 

[Mustapha]

Does anyone here have a line on pictures of One Yonge street before One Yonge? I've always been curious as to what was there. I've searched at the online Toronto Archives using 'Quay' without result. Thank you in advance.