Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Zeiss]

So, the company dealing with FURS, HIDES and WOOL changed the sign to SKINS HIDES WOOL 28 years later.

 

[Goldie]

Still a pretty darn nice neighbourhood.

Last pic Goldie, is that building on the left the real one or a reproduction?

Not sure to which you refer - all are "real" to my knowledge.

 

[Goldie]

More "Flatiron"

 

[r937]

These Time-Warp Photos Show Six Cities In The Past And Present

includes Toronto, with a link to Harry Enchin's Toronto Moments in Time

 

[Aladone]

Hi UB Then and Now friends. I know its been awhile. I got lost this morning in the thread pages as I usually do when come come back home for a visit. Keep up the great work! Goldie - Flat Iron! Love the photos! I have a lot to catch up on.

Anyways, there's a new mobile app out that lets users have creative fun with past and present photos. It's very user friendly! I can't believe it's been 7 years since I started have fun mixing past and present photos I knew eventually there would be an app that help us do it for us. Lol. So, I'm out to town with it and have fun! If this is something that you might be interested in be sure to check out www.timera.com Look out for the #TOTimera365 hashtag, on FB or Twitter, it's going to be a busy year for me. - Alden

Here are some that I have been able to put together using the Timera app.

 

[thecharioteer]

More "Flatiron"

Some in-between images. Mural by Rita Letendre (Urban Shocker, we need you!)?

 

[Goldie]

Some in-between images. Mural by Rita Letendre (Urban Shocker, we need you!)?

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Wow! I don't recall ever seeing that 'artwork' before - do you know the date?

 

[adma]

Wow! I don't recall ever seeing that 'artwork' before - do you know the date?

1971. And not Letendre, but Daniel Solomon.

 

[MattB]

Rita Letendre's mural was on the top of the Neill Wycik residence on Gerrard, east of Yonge. The only other one I remember was Gord Rayner's at York and Front. I forget who sponsored the murals, but they were great.

 

[thecharioteer]

A shot from the Telegram Archives of the corner of Church and King on November 11, 1963 and the block that is one of my own obsessions: the King/Church/Toronto/Court block:



From a block east:



And looking east from Toronto Street instead of west:

 

[Goldie]

Quick visit to another city.
Then & Now photos of a memorial to Lord Kitchener:

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...rst-world-war-and-now-photography-interactive

 

[Mustapha]

Then.



Dundas and Beverley. We are looking across at the SE corner from the NW corner. This Toronto Archives picture is dated 1909. Part of the description given is: "item consists of one photograph of buildings to come down to make way for Grange Park". [Partly correct; they also came down to make way for the Art Gallery of Ontario].

At plink's great archive of Toronto maps,

http://skritch.blogspot.ca/2012/04/goads-atlas-of-toronto-online.html

the 1913 maps still show these houses.

In the 1924 maps everything you see in this view has been demolished and the original AGO building makes its cartographic appearance (I believe it was finished in 1916).

The original building is still part of the AGO. It's subsumed within the modern additions. When you enter the AGO, you'll find yourself in Walker Court, a colonnaded area, with the famous wooden spiral stairways - this is the centre of the original Darling and Pearson designed building.



Now. I think I took this in January 2014. Brrr, what a winter this was.

 

[thecharioteer]

The Grange:

 

[thecharioteer]

Then.



Dundas and Beverley. We are looking across at the SE corner from the NW corner. This Toronto Archives picture is dated 1909. Part of the description given is: "item consists of one photograph of buildings to come down to make way for Grange Park". [Partly correct; they also came down to make way for the Art Gallery of Ontario].

At plink's great archive of Toronto maps,

http://skritch.blogspot.ca/2012/04/goads-atlas-of-toronto-online.html

the 1913 maps still show these houses.

In the 1924 maps everything you see in this view has been demolished and the original AGO building makes its cartographic appearance (I believe it was finished in 1916).

The original building is still part of the AGO. It's subsumed within the modern additions. When you enter the AGO, you'll find yourself in Walker Court, a colonnaded area, with the famous wooden spiral stairways - this is the centre of the original Darling and Pearson designed building.



Now. I think I took this in January 2014. Brrr, what a winter this was.

Lest we forget, the KPMB version, early 90's:

And the Darling & Pearson original, photo from the 70's:



And from Beverley in 1922:

 

[Mustapha]

Quick visit to another city.
Then & Now photos of a memorial to Lord Kitchener:

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...rst-world-war-and-now-photography-interactive

More material in line with your post Goldie.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/images-world-war-devastation-overlaid-modern-photos-france/


This year is the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War....