Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Blovertis]

Oct 2011:
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Oct 2022:
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What a defacement. And for what?

 

[flonicky]

What a defacement. And for what?

Yeah, that was a hard one to take.

 

[flonicky]

Streetview 2009:

2022:

 

[Goldie]

Thanks for the idea, flonicky.
Here's a similar view from 1916:

 

[LPCI]

Thanks for the idea, flonicky.
Here's a similar view from 1916:
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Took me a minute to orient myself, wow!

 

[Northern Light]

Thanks for the idea, flonicky.
Here's a similar view from 1916:
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I'm assuming those are platform canopies on the bridge over Yonge Street. I don't know if I've ever seen that shot; good one!

 

[Northern Light]

From Transit Timewarp on Facebook, this interesting then and now; looking down Runnymede 65 years apart:

In the above shot, one sees the old CP roundhouse for Lambton Yard, built in 1913 and demolished sometime around 1970


Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=519355720201922&set=a.445715797565915

 

[egotrippin]

A closer look at the now demolished hotel in Goldie's post, the Rosedale Hotel at Yonge and Shaftesbury. I can't find much information about it, in fact it's the first I'd even heard of it. Has the archetypical look of Toronto hotels from the era.

The now view, courtesy Google Maps. Demolished (obviously lol)

 

[adma]

It actually lasted until the early 80s or so--in its latter days, incorporated into the Ports restaurant that took up the whole blockfront...

 

[junctionist]

From Transit Timewarp on Facebook, this interesting then and now; looking down Runnymede 65 years apart:

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In the above shot, one sees the old CP roundhouse for Lambton Yard, built in 1913 and demolished sometime around 1970


Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=519355720201922&set=a.445715797565915

What a terrible loss. They didn't demolish the Runnymede Roundhouse for the current Smart Centre on site, though. There was a company called Fastfrate, which had an office building at this corner and a freight shed further west along St. Clair before the Smart Centre.

Fastfrate would transfer freight between trains and trucks. Here's a photo of what the corner looked like between the days of the roundhouse and the Smart Centre.

 

[egotrippin]

It actually lasted until the early 80s or so--in its latter days, incorporated into the Ports restaurant that took up the whole blockfront...

A few more years and it might've been saved... I actually like its replacement, albeit I'd take the Rosedale if given a choice. It's a shame its twin on the south side of Shaftesbury is undergoing a ham-fisted renovation which ruins the nice symmetry the two had. Unfortunately this city has to fuss with everything in the shortsighted name of "modernization".

 

[thecharioteer]

It actually lasted until the early 80s or so--in its latter days, incorporated into the Ports restaurant that took up the whole blockfront...

I think the Ports was a brand new building:

 

[adma]

I think the Ports was a brand new building:

It was; but the new building occupied the N end of the blockfront. And I don't know when it did so, but by the end the restaurant had swallowed the hotel at the S end as well...

 

[flonicky]

Streetview 2007: (quality compromise because '07 was a bit more interesting than '09)

Oct 2022:

 

[flonicky]

Streetview 2009:

Oct 2022: