Is that a joke or for real?
Is that a joke or for real?
It was real all right. Bus and street car tickets were still in use and you couldn't use tokens on the buses because the drivers would accuse you of just dropping in a dime or an out-of-date token from before the last price hike. In other words tokens were often useless for the return journey if it started on a bus or street car.I gather its real. The Record Title at the Archives is "Unused turnstiles : College and King stations"
Still love the TTC font. Looked cool then...looks cool now. I say bring on $1.00 fare hikes just to maintain the integrity of the TTC fonts.
It's already like this every month-end at Yonge & Bloor station.And we complain about the service today. Not too many people today would be happy to wait like that.
Very nice, Aladone! Your mixes are really works of art, almost like a "Ghosts of Toronto" series.
I almost missed the bike racks. In some of the older - think no later than the 1920s - 'Then' pictures at the Toronto Archives, you can see bikes parked against the curb, almost as if they were a vehicle.
November 18 addition.
Then: Bay street, looking NE at the SE corner. Two tone Chevy coupe of 58 vintage, I think.
Now: September 2009.
that poor, poor building. from a seedy, noirish little boîte, just up the road from the bus station and the Ford Hotel, and frequented no doubt by a clientele of dames, molls, painted ladies, hoods, hustlers and lost causes, to an 'egg' restaurant?? oh, the indignity...