Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[brewster]

Church Street across the bottom with Richmond on the left, Lombard on the right looking east - 1993 -- August 14, 2014

 

[thecharioteer]

Further to Mustapha's Jarvis Building post:

Postcard from 1910 (note the still-surviving National Club on the right):

 

[Mustapha]

What thread should I post them in Mustapha ?

This is the right thread.

 

[brewster]

Views from the rooftop patio at 50 Lombard Street

 

[Goldie]

Views from the rooftop patio at 50 Lombard Street

Thanks for those magnificent views, brewster.

This one, in particular, shows a huge space just waiting for redevelopment.
I wonder how soon it will be before we see it filled with condos.

 

[DSC]

Thanks for those magnificent views, brewster.

This one, in particular, shows a huge space just waiting for redevelopment.
I wonder how soon it will be before we see it filled with condos.

Yes, they ARE great photos but I am really not sure they belong in 'Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now' They are only "now" and one of the joys of this thread is the comparison.

 

[Red October]

I talked my way into taking a few shots from the rooftop patio of 50 Lombard Street. I didn't realize until after I got home that this aerial from the Toronto Archives was taken from the same view in 1993.

Unless I am mistaken you can see Walnut Hall just diagonally up and left of Moss Park Armoury on the right...

 

[thecharioteer]

Yes, they ARE great photos but I am really not sure they belong in 'Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now' They are only "now" and one of the joys of this thread is the comparison.

True, but we can now use them to add some "thens":

 

[thecharioteer]

Thanks to those that posted, still looking for some street level pix of the east side of Bay between front and wellington
specifically of 185 bay street.
From the 1950's until the block was demo'd for BCE late 80's

Here's a street level view of the Ogilvie Building in 1929, as the Bank of Commerce is moving in, as their new headquarters on King at Jordon is under construction:

The above pic is from the Toronto Star Archives and had the following caption:

Caption: 1929/01/22 -- Over the week-end the Canadian Bank of Commerce took final steps in moving to new headquarters and today is doing business in the Ogilvie building, corner of Bay and Wellington Streets. The Ogilvie building will be temporary headquarters while the new building is being erected on the King-Jordan site.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"1929/01/22 "
Thecharioteer.

The old "Horse Blanket trick"!


Regards,
J T

 

[adma]

Let's keep in mind that Ogilvie was demo'd in the early 60s or so for the curtain-wall Credit Foncier building--which only lasted a quarter century or so before BCE replaced it...

 

[fugaziosbourne]

True Davidson Acres being built in 1970.

Side note...I've been looking for an old photo of my house(3rd one on the left in this photo) for years. When I finally find one, the front is obscured by a tree!!!!

 

[brewster]

I found a better photo from the Archives looking ne from 50 Lombard -- 1993
Updated photo - August 14-2014

 

[thecharioteer]

Let's keep in mind that Ogilvie was demo'd in the early 60s or so for the curtain-wall Credit Foncier building--which only lasted a quarter century or so before BCE replaced it...

Quite right. South side of Wellington in the 1970's (soon to be transformed by the Royal Bank Plaza), looking towards the Credit Foncier building at Bay Street:

And these could be the elusive pics of the east side of Bay between Front and Wellington that buxvet has been seeking:

 

[adma]

Oh yeah; forgot about that *other* curtain wall thing along Bay (looks almost like a re-skinning of an earlier structure?), + the 20s relic that later housed Jane Harvey's law operation...)