|
|
|
View from Commerce Court West Obsevation level. 1974??
- Thread starter toto
- Start date
SixPoints
Active Member
Very nice. I'd love to see more of these. Post more if you can. 
fiendishlibrarian
Active Member
grey
Senior Member
Amazing find, toto!
toto
Active Member
I can't recall, but I think it was on the 56th floor or maybe just under the mechanical floor??
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I visited it when the building opened; there was an aviary up there.
adma
Superstar
With the FCP shot: interesting to catch the old North American Life building while it momentarily still existed (but the G&M was gone already)
bar1967
Active Member
Anyone notice in the picture that the current Sheraton used to be a Four Seasons? I never knew that.
grey
Senior Member
Very observant. I didn't know that either.
Apparently the hotel was built as a joint venture between Sheraton and Four Seasons and was named the "Four Seasons Sheraton Hotel." Four Seasons sold their share in '76.
Interesting, and shame on both of them.
Apparently the hotel was built as a joint venture between Sheraton and Four Seasons and was named the "Four Seasons Sheraton Hotel." Four Seasons sold their share in '76.
Interesting, and shame on both of them.
adma
Superstar
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who were around then are still hardwired to think of it as the "Four Seasons Sheraton", maybe not to the degree that the Park Hyatt will eternally be the Park Plaza, but...
(Maybe more comparable to those who still think of the present Four Seasons as the Hyatt Regency.)
(Maybe more comparable to those who still think of the present Four Seasons as the Hyatt Regency.)
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
I was up there a few times when I was a kid before and during the CN tower build and remember the aviary well, it ran all around the interior of the observation level. One visit we got stuck in one of those huge elevators. A few years earlier I had seen one of those ABC/NBC "movie of the week" cheapo, made-for-TV disaster films about a group who gets stuck in an elevator that gets closer and closer to plunging down dozens of floors. I was scared to death when we got stuck in that elevator!