Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[strookie]

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I still have this photo in mind, not just because of the smashing model, but also for the quality, especially for a colour photograph. When I first saw it, I thought it was old enough to have been originally black and white and someone else colourized it. But close inspection tells me it is original colour. In fact, it does not appear to have been colour enhanced, either. I would assume the cuffs and the TTC logo were redder than now depicted. Can anyone provide the name of the photographer and the date it was taken?

Less important, but I'm curious, what is she depicting with the tickets? I assume that it's just part of the pose.

 

[Goldie]

Perhaps she's introducing the first 'booklet' of tickets.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now - 29 Baldwin Street window sign:


Then. 2012. I was out for a night time walk and took a pic of this coffee shop window; thinking that pane of glass might not be around forever. In 2012 the 'Mandel's Dairy' sign was already about 97 years old.

Now. Tonite, Jan 8, 2018. Another evening walk. The coffee shop and the window pane are long gone but, [half?] thankfully, safely in storage.

Read more about the Mandel's window sign here:

https://www.blogto.com/city/2016/08/historical_yiddish_sign_searches_for_new_toronto_home/

 

[Koolgreen]

Perhaps she's introducing the first 'booklet' of tickets.

guessing she was 20 in this picture.... that would put her around mid 80's and could very well be with us still.....that would be swell if she were lurking around here.....

 

[hawc]

Mr. Watson's bike store was taken over by Mr. Hopkins senior and then by his son Ken. Hopkins Cycle and Sports operated until about 1995, winding up where the Club Monaco is now. More than a few older bikes in the nabe with the Hopkins sticker on the frame; I still have mine.

At the south end of the block was Stan Muston florist (not seen in the old picture). It's now a Second Cup. Muston's had live ducklings in the south window every Easter. At night they would be huddled under a light for heat - girls and boys would walk out around 9pm to say goodnight.

Wow amazing! I grew up on Briar Hill just west of Duplex. My first ever job was selling bicycles and hockey equipment at Hopkins. Ken hired me. I was there for a few years around 1989.

I also have a childhood memory of those easter ducklings. I was so young I couldn't remember if that was real or I had just imagined something like it. But you just confirmed it.

 

[kbdid]

Wow! Searching for "Women's Bakery" still, found a book by John Lorinc (Torontoist editor) that discusses the common owner of both Hunt's and Women's in the Sixties, still searching, but one hit took me to this pic, and take a look at the number on the interurban stop, it's the next one down the line from Birchmount:

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/birchcliffnews/7797084058/

And here's looking north on Birchmount to Kingston Road, where Goldie's pic was taken:

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On Birchmount Road, looking north to radial car on Kingston Road. Courtesy of Scarborough Archives

https://www.flickr.com/photos/birchcliffnews/7797078070/in/photostream/
Full size pic at url

Today:
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the drug store is still there on SW corner. https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Bi...577656bdf528f1!8m2!3d43.6914772!4d-79.2647447

 

[Soop]

It is remarkable how dry and boring and shitty the choices are.

I have worked in leasing for some of the TTC stations (like at Eglinton where the building owner above does the leasing for the spaces in the station). Not easy to get good tenants. Commuters aren't really interested in shopping along the way. And the black layer of soot (or whatever it is) that collects on everything isn't conducive to getting good staff. Who would want to work down there without a mask.

 

[Richard White]

I have worked in leasing for some of the TTC stations (like at Eglinton where the building owner above does the leasing for the spaces in the station). Not easy to get good tenants. Commuters aren't really interested in shopping along the way. And the black layer of soot (or whatever it is) that collects on everything isn't conducive to getting good staff. Who would want to work down there without a mask.

Warden Station actually makes pretty good business but gets a ton of loitering. I am actually surprised the tenants have survived there for as long as they have. The three shops in there are glorified bargain shops, nothing of any meaningful quality at a cheap price.

Other shops like the ones at Eglinton are better in the sense that they are at a busier station and giving people what they actually want.

Time will only tell but I can forsee the TTC closing down a ton of the current shops and renovating them otherwise they will not remain cost-effective.

 

[Mustapha]

Today, Wed Jan 10th, I went for coffee at the Timmys that occupies the saved lobby of the old Allenby Theatre at Danforth and Greenwood. The lobby is the only part that was saved.

I did this as a Then and Now years ago but here is another one with a Now pic from today.

 

[DSC]

Nice that they saved the old doors!

 

[Koolgreen]

the only thing missing is that ash receptacle....ubiquitous in that era, never to be seen again.........
what was that grey ash that was in with the trays in most institutional ashtrays???

 

[pman]

Too bad about the new floor.

 

[Goldie]

Ah! The Allenby........I knew it well.
As a kid I often went to the Sat. matinees to see two features, a newsreel, cartoon, serial and coming attractions.
My parents attended and collected the free encyclopedia that was offered (one volume per visit).
Here's another "Kidd" (the famous Bruce) at the renamed Roxy Cinema.

 

[Richard White]

For me it was the original cineplex odeon at the Scarborough Town Center along with the Famous Players Cederbrae.

Those were the days..

 

[thecharioteer]

A few views of Yonge, looking south from Dundas:

1929:

1950's:

Last week (photo by Lenser on the Massey Tower thread):