Then and Now: Yonge/Dundas and area

[Mustapha]

Nov 10 additions

Scott and Wellington, looking north north west
The 'new' building already has a nice patina.

Yonge and Front, looking south south east
I don't suppose board and batten made for a permanent structure

 

[Mustapha]

Nov 14 just a couple pics...

Dundas west. South side, just a few steps west of Bay street. haha, I think they rounded up my old man in this one.

Only the green and aluminum clad former Sai Woo building is left today.

 

[Dilla]

while i really do love this thread, it can be very, very frustrating to look at. Sometimes i get headaches, and it's not just from want of fish and chips.

 

[Mustapha]

while i really do love this thread, it can be very, very frustrating to look at. Sometimes i get headaches, and it's not just from want of fish and chips.

They haven't torn everything down; we aren't Calgary. Go have a walk; there's lots left standing. Colborne Street just west of Church is a nice example of a place where you can still get lost in 19th century atmosphere. Appreciate what we have and go order some battered fish.

 

[taal]

Pictures look better in black and white!! : - )

Honestly, it makes anything from the past look that much better.

I'm not arguing that they were beauties : - ) but anyway, something to remember.

 

[Mustapha]

Nov 17, just a pair of pics, hope to get out more when business is less hectic

Yonge and Dundas looking north duh

 

[Mustapha]

Nov 19 additions: a walk through the old Elizabeth street Chinatown circa 1973

Dad checks his new-in-1973 watch and decides it's time for a late night drink at Lichee Gardens

 

[Brian69]

Love that last shot!

 

[Urban Shocker]

That's Ward 5 Alderman Ying Hope boogying with his wife in your third photo, Mustapha. The street festival took place in July 1970 as part of a fundraising drive to raise $200,000 to build a retirement home for members of the Chinese community.

 

[torplanner]

The 1st photo has me thinking: underneath the Sam's signs and the Future Shop stucco, would we find the facades of these old brick buildings?

Yes
http://spacing.ca/wire/2009/03/11/sam-the-record-man-exposed/

 

[Mustapha]

Yes
http://spacing.ca/wire/2009/03/11/sam-the-record-man-exposed/

Man, between me, androiduk, and everybodys uncle, when the Sam's sign came down the cameras came out.

 

[torplanner]

On the left, my paternal grandfather in the middle (Fred), my uncle (Fred.. I also have second Uncle Fred.. but that's another story), and my dad. On the right, my maternal grandfather in the middle, my aunt Marilyn and my mom. Notice anything interesting about these two photos from Toronto?
My parents wouldn't meet for another 25 years or so. I was the first to notice the similarity, even though these two photos were sitting in frames next to each other for years.

 

[Edward Skira]

Amazing!

Me and my wife lived within blocks of each other around Yonge and Finch when we were kids/teenagers. She's three years younger and went to a different high school so we never connected at that time. We must have passed each other thousands of times. I only met her later when we were at York U. Our parents still live around the corner from each other.

 

[Edward]

Great pictures torplanner.

 

[Mustapha]

On the left, my paternal grandfather in the middle (Fred), my uncle (Fred.. I also have second Uncle Fred.. but that's another story), and my dad. On the right, my maternal grandfather in the middle, my aunt Marilyn and my mom. Notice anything interesting about these two photos from Toronto?
My parents wouldn't meet for another 25 years or so. I was the first to notice the similarity, even though these two photos were sitting in frames next to each other for years.

The Childs sign.. both pics were taken on the same section of street? How wonderful and fascinating.

The good shoes on your maternal grandfather.. the hats on the ladies, just great.

Can you or one of the older folks in your family tell us what street and location exactly?