I'm still admiring that great aerial photo submitted by thecharioteer.
I've identified the shipyard where I watched launchings in the 1940s.
My father helped build them.
click thumbnail to enlarge:
Thanks for a fascinating glimpse into our culinary past. Looks to be early Sixties, no? That menu still stands up today, and I was glad to see a healthy selection of chop suey.
Also wouldn't mind quaffing a bit of that Parkdale champagne.
Note that the E'bound dormer was remanufactured; the slate also has been replaced.
Regards,
J T
I'm still admiring that great aerial photo submitted by thecharioteer.
I've identified the shipyard where I watched launchings in the 1940s.
My father helped build them.
click thumbnail to enlarge:
August 10 addition.
King and Yonge, SW corner.
I quite miss Lichee Garden. They easily had the best breaded shrimp I've ever had. I remember going to that location when I was very small. They relocated just down the street to the Atrium and stayed there for many years, which I had the pleasure of often visiting. After that they moved to Eglinton and Bathurst roughly, where I went once, and then they moved back downtown to University, near Dundas, which I also visited once. I've heard they since moved yet again to Thornhill several years ago - pity they fled to a sterile suburb. Don't know if I'll follow them this time.
Fascinating Flickr album. 'Baseball Place' - its a Toyota dealership now...
I'm still admiring that great aerial photo submitted by thecharioteer.
I've identified the shipyard where I watched launchings in the 1940s.
My father helped build them.
click thumbnail to enlarge:
I believe that even prior to the St Lawrence Seaway's completion there were locks, albeit for smaller ships.They were building minesweepers in Toronto during the war? With no St Lawrence Seaway how did they get them out to the ocean? Were the Rideau or Erie Canals large enough?
This is one of the few shots in this thread where the "now" is actually better to the "then". That small Miesian office building at Jordan (I believe it was formerly Montreal Trust) is one of the best buildings in the Financial District.
I remember how strange it seemed when they painted the red brick buildings on Yonge even redder - and made the buff coloured one red too. But I'd forgotten the old switcheroo with that frontage on Wellington, to fill in the gap to the east and make way for the new BCE Place building, and how that front appears to have gone buff coloured from red.
The Smart car is a nice touch