jaborandi
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When you refer to Seth, are you referring to he that describes himself as a personality energy essence not focused in our reality or someone else?
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
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When you refer to Seth, are you referring to he that describes himself as a personality energy essence not focused in our reality or someone else?
adma
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Lister is a different situation, wrapped up in a more Americanesque gird of blatant inner-city decay and political slime...
Mustapha
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Dec 22 additions
First, a thanks to adma for figuring out my goof in the Arcade building post - it's been fixed.
Just three locations for today.
Church street looking towards Esplanade. The closest horse staring at the camera ... to the left is a sunken doorway ... it's now a convenience store.
Yonge looking north from Front street.
Yonge street. Looking west from Collier street.
First, a thanks to adma for figuring out my goof in the Arcade building post - it's been fixed.
Just three locations for today.
Church street looking towards Esplanade. The closest horse staring at the camera ... to the left is a sunken doorway ... it's now a convenience store.
Yonge looking north from Front street.
Yonge street. Looking west from Collier street.
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Uncle Teddy
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Sad that we lost that Navy Club building on Yonge.
Urban Shocker
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That was Yorkville Town Hall, designed by William Hay and opened in 1860. It was destroyed by fire in 1941.
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Considering the date of the photo and the fact that the round window looks broken with sky behind it I suspect this is a post-fire picture. It is a shame it has gone though! Thanks for posting.
jks
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Spadina looking towards Adelaide.
Very interesting how the streetcar right-of-way was where the traffic lanes are now. I'm guessing because the traffic lanes were smaller, and there was less of them. Awesome pics!!
Mustapha
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Dec29 addition
Toronto in its early days had many ravines. Street grids tried to impose order and linearity on this fact of nature.
Shaw street – a few steps south of College street – bridged a ravine early this century. Wthin that ravine was Sully crescent – it ran up and ended under the bridge. Today, the ravine has been long filled in and it and the bridge are gone.
Before the ravine was filled, the Sully houses were demolished. One may suppose the foundations are still there. A section of Sully – on higher ground to the east of the buried section - still exists. The house numbers in the remaining section of Sully start at #3 and end at #12 – one of the old pictures identifies a demolished house as #38 - phantom evidence of what was.
Sully looking west from Crawford. The bridge is Shaw. The date is Mar 12, 1901.
Note the 4 identical detached houses in a row in the middle of the picture... I'll talk about them again in a moment.
Same date, closer to Shaw bridge.
New perspective taken from what was the top of bridge in the old photo. The four old houses in a row still stand sentinel.
Sully looking ENE. Shaw street is behind the photographer. Crawford street is out of the frame; up the hill to the right. The year is 1907 and utility poles are here now. Note the fire hydrant and adjacent tree in centre right of the first picture in this series: in this picture the tree has matured in the intervening six years. It must be after school; as evidenced by shadows falling to the east, and the young lady clutching books. Everyone is looking at the photographer doing his thing. Even the mothers have come outdoors. The smiling toddler is a doll. The older girls wear fitted wool coats and fitted boots - wonderful - no ugg boots here.
Shaw looking N towards College.
Sully looking NW. The bridge is gone, replaced by an embankment that will grow to fill the rest of this ravine.
The mansard roofed house with two dormers and its neighbour on the right is still there on Shaw. The 'Kalahambra (not sure of the spelling) Hall' on College street still stands. Its now The Revival club.
A final goodbye to our buried street. The east wall of the Metro store makes a modern picture impossible here.
This is all original research based on photographic evidence. Any mistakes are all mine. Your input is invited.
Toronto in its early days had many ravines. Street grids tried to impose order and linearity on this fact of nature.
Shaw street – a few steps south of College street – bridged a ravine early this century. Wthin that ravine was Sully crescent – it ran up and ended under the bridge. Today, the ravine has been long filled in and it and the bridge are gone.
Before the ravine was filled, the Sully houses were demolished. One may suppose the foundations are still there. A section of Sully – on higher ground to the east of the buried section - still exists. The house numbers in the remaining section of Sully start at #3 and end at #12 – one of the old pictures identifies a demolished house as #38 - phantom evidence of what was.
Sully looking west from Crawford. The bridge is Shaw. The date is Mar 12, 1901.
Note the 4 identical detached houses in a row in the middle of the picture... I'll talk about them again in a moment.
Same date, closer to Shaw bridge.
New perspective taken from what was the top of bridge in the old photo. The four old houses in a row still stand sentinel.
Sully looking ENE. Shaw street is behind the photographer. Crawford street is out of the frame; up the hill to the right. The year is 1907 and utility poles are here now. Note the fire hydrant and adjacent tree in centre right of the first picture in this series: in this picture the tree has matured in the intervening six years. It must be after school; as evidenced by shadows falling to the east, and the young lady clutching books. Everyone is looking at the photographer doing his thing. Even the mothers have come outdoors. The smiling toddler is a doll. The older girls wear fitted wool coats and fitted boots - wonderful - no ugg boots here.
Shaw looking N towards College.
Sully looking NW. The bridge is gone, replaced by an embankment that will grow to fill the rest of this ravine.
The mansard roofed house with two dormers and its neighbour on the right is still there on Shaw. The 'Kalahambra (not sure of the spelling) Hall' on College street still stands. Its now The Revival club.
A final goodbye to our buried street. The east wall of the Metro store makes a modern picture impossible here.
This is all original research based on photographic evidence. Any mistakes are all mine. Your input is invited.
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Mustapha
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Dec 29 addition
Eglinton East looking west from Redpath.
Eglinton East looking west from Redpath.
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egotrippin
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I'm assuming they pretty much clear cut all the trees back in these days of early development, because as far as I know it the land was dense forest. I also wish they hadn't filled in so many ravines and streams, would've made for some more geographically interesting neighbourhoods.
jks
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^^^ Agreed! But subdivisions don't go very well with streams!
Woodbridge_Heights
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M II A II R II K
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That was most interesting.
Mustapha
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A walk north from Yonge and Eglinton to Yonge and Yonge Boulevard
The walk is on the east side of the street. The views are of the west side.
The walk is on the east side of the street. The views are of the west side.
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Conrad Black
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Nice post. Interesting to see the entrance to Eglinton station was added later.