Toronto 1973 - help needed

[CliffColeclough]

I apologize for posting this in the photo section, since it is videos I am posting, but seeing the responses the old colour photos got - I thought this would be the most helpful area. Mods - please move this thread if it would make sense to have it elsewhere. I have a sense of where some of this stuff is, but would like confirmation and/or corrections - thank you.

Three clips for the CBC TV show The Collaborators from 1973. I will post more if people want.

King and Bayish???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1HgfyveC4

King and Yonge?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocexiDkIO8

Cumberland Bay Subway entrance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8Z4jwhkQA

 

[androiduk]

Video #1; @2:30 you can see the sign for the Lord Simcoe Hotel in the background. @2:55, southeast corner of King & Bay. @3:49, the irregularly shaped highrise is 25 St. Mary St.

 

[androiduk]

Video #2; The video opens at the Windsor Arms Hotel on St. Thomas St. and the rest of the video is centred around King & Melinda St. The car is sitting on Melinda facing north toward King.

 

[androiduk]

Video#3; You got it, Cumberland, east of Avenue Rd. The parking lot in the opening is now Yorkville Park. Nice videos, thanks.

 

[Anna]

#1 - starts out in front of Union Station - looks like Royal York in background
- Golf course - don't know
- getting out of car - street with brick gutter looks like St. Thomas St looking south from Bloor towards Charles, car turns onto Sultan St where fat guy is standing
- fat guy then shows up walking toward phone booth on south side of King, west of York, across from Lord Simcoe hotel, with old Globe and Mail building in background
- back to golf course
- Commerce Court (north side, on King) with old Stock Exchange building in background. Then he walks out Bay street side where fat guy is standing on other side of street in front of TD banking pavilion, with old BMO building on King in background
- aerial view - apartment building is one on St Mary St looking west towards St. Basil's

#2 - car drives southbound on St. Thomas street (again) in front of Windsor Arms
- north side of King between Bay & Yonge. Guy gets Globe & Mail from box at corner of King & Jordan and gets into car parked on Jordan street facing north
- then car is then mysteriously transported a grassy location (the ROM or U of T?)
- back to King St It looks like 3rd tower of TD centre is under construction in background behind Mercedes

Wish there was sound...

 

[Anna]

#3 - Parking garage - building in background above taxi looks like Lucliff Place.

 

[CliffColeclough]

More clips from Toronto 1974 - with audio this time

Thank you Anna and Andrioduk this is VERY helpful. I've posted some more clips and hope you can come thru again. I have a much better idea on these, for the most part, but am looking for confirmation.

Clip one - pretty sure this is 2200 Yonge Street. Not sure if this still exists today and not sure what the car is parked infront of....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y0jQd9aGR0

Clip two - the main thing I am trying to figure out here is what the The Iron ? is. Some of the name is cut off and I have no idea where this is located:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfsC4igHfQ

Clip three - this is the big scene in this 1974 episode of The Collaborators. We are back at 2200 Yonge Street, in the lobby - but the get away takes place out back and finishes at the TTC Bus terminal at Eglinton Station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7McPH8Tnls

Any help again would be muchly appreciated!

 

[Anna]

The Iron? might be on Jarvis street, because the grey building in the background looks like that ugly Federal Gov't building on the northeast corner of Dundas & Jarvis that is now a ugly hotel. The building with the pillars that he goes into looks like one of those old apartment buildings in that area.

 

[Anna]

Yes 2200 Yonge is still there. Some of the stone wall is also still there, but the area above it has been glassed in. 2200 Yonge in Google Streetview

I can't believe Gordon Pinsent was a bad guy. I think he is parked across the street in front of 2221 Yonge. If you spin around the Streetview the closing out sale storefront is now The Hair Zone. They also drive by an ex-CIBC branch which you can see in this 1963 picture:

 

[thecharioteer]

The Iron? might be on Jarvis street, because the grey building in the background looks like that ugly Federal Gov't building on the northeast corner of Dundas & Jarvis that is now a ugly hotel. The building with the pillars that he goes into looks like one of those old apartment buildings in that area.

Could it be the late Warwick Hotel? I tried to find some pics online but haven't found any. There's this shot, but the columns don't seem to match (unless there were different columns at the entrance):

 

[CliffColeclough]

Thanks everyone for your help. I am trying to verify another location found in the opening credits. Around 4:05 into this clip, [video=youtube;8Q1HgfyveC4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1HgfyveC4[/video] we see Richard Gilbert superimpossed over a roundabout type location. I believe that we see is the Don Valley Parkway with a loop leading from it to the Eastern Avenue (this is what I thought was initally the roundabout) with the King Street Bridge over the waterway. We can also see Sunlight Park Road opposite from the bridge. The darker building that we see still exists (I think) but not sure about the one next to it.

Any confirmation on this and/or extra details would be very appreciated.

 

[Anna]

Yes, that's the location - but the ramp is going in the other direction - from eastbound Eastern Ave to the northbound DVP. The dark Lever Brothers building is now a BMW dealership. The other building is gone. If you were referring to the old bridge - it is the old Eastern Ave. bridge and it is still there.
Go to Bing maps - search for Sunlight Park Road and look at the bird's eye aerial view, and flip it around so that south is at the top.