Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[fugaziosbourne]

Hi fugaziosbourne,

I looked in the usual place:

https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.co...04&bCachable=1&MenuName=Public+Keyword+Search

Only result was for the Goodwood in the St. Clair and Dufferin area, not yours in the Dawes Rd Danforth area.

Can anyone else help?

Thanks. I've been looking online and at the Toronto Archives for weeks and have turned up nothing so far.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for April 23, 2013.



Then. Toronto College of Music. 12-14 Pembroke Street. c1894.

Now. September 2012. Ecole Publique Gabrielle Roy.

 

[Mustapha]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...history_of_familiar_streets_a_click_away.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...house_missing_its_other_half_turns_heads.html

 

[k10ery]

^There's a Star mole lurking on this thread! Who is it?

 

[nostalgic]

Re the Star story about the house that was cut in half... the house at the southeast corner of Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Moore Ave was cut in half in 1949 to widen Mt Pleasant. The 2010-ish Google streetview pic was taken when the half-house was getting a "stucco" finish over the brick.

The houses that face Mt. Pleasant lost their front yards, and a house at the NE corner of Mt. Pleasant and Rose Park was removed)

The house currently at that corner has a wide side yard as a consequence; you used to be able to see part of the old foundation of the house that was taken out.

 

[Anna]

There's also this house at 33/55 Dagmar where the right half was demolished for the Dundas East extension

 

[Goldie]

Another "half-house."

 

[nostalgic]

Is it strange that two semis would share one attic vent? I wonder if that house was originally a single house that got an extension on one side so it could be made into two semis.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Is it strange that two semis would share one attic vent?"
QUOTE: Prof Goldie.

Quite common.

(And no fire barrier!)


Regards,
J T

 

[nostalgic]

I just looked at the Goad's for 1880 and the footprint is the two semis, both rough cast.

 

[Mustapha]

^There's a Star mole lurking on this thread! Who is it?

 

[Mustapha]

I thoroughly enjoyed nostalgic's, Anna's and Goldie's pictorial history of 'remnant' houses. Fascinating stuff.

Still on this topic, but in China; one couple takes a stand against roadwork that called for the expropriation and demolition of their home:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236746/Road-built-building-couple-refuse-China.html

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for April 24, 2013.



Then. Broadview Avenue, looking SSW towards the Broadview Hotel and Queen Street. c1949-ish I'm guessing.

Now. September 2012.

 

[M II A II R II K]

Percy St. - Corktown

http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/04/whats_it_like_to_live_on_a_private_street_in_toronto/

1938

????

 

[Mustapha]

Percy St. - Corktown

http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/04/whats_it_like_to_live_on_a_private_street_in_toronto/

1938

????

A charming 'walk' down what was to me an unknown street, M II A II R II K. Thank you for the link.