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Another look at a booming decade in the history of Toronto:

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Yorkville night life...
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Queen & Bathurst:
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College Park Christmas Eve:
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Guildwood GO Station:
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Can someone explain that last picture and why theres two people in the middle of Bay with a desk?
 
Mike in TO said:
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Every time I see this picture, it makes me sick that the Registry building was torn down; especially the way it's perched up on top of that hill in such a grand fashion. I can't think of any other buildings in Toronto with such grand steps, and a proud entrance. It could've easily been kept, nothing worthwhile replaced it at that position.
 
Those residential towers built in semi-farmland remind me of the optimistic mood, and assumptions that the future would continue to get better, which existed in Toronto when I came here in 1970. They were probably speculative developments, but securely based on the knowledge that the city would soon catch up with them as it sprawled forever onwards ... north of York Mills ... and Sheppard ... and Finch ...

When we flew into Toronto for the first time that April I looked down at the black TD Centre towers, standing alone in their modernity near the lake, and marvelled.
 
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Funny thing is how a lot of those early photo-illustrations of TD show it as two-toned...

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Ah, the original (pre-disc) Sam's sign--and A&A's blew it away (and I think they still had that sign almost to the brink of the Eaton Centre era)

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I remember seeing a reference to the Knox Dry Goods (Woolworth) facade having been covered up in perforated metal c1954--but evidently, it remained uncovered into the late 60s. (The metal cladding was removed in the 1986 reno.)
 
egotrippin said:
Every time I see this picture, it makes me sick that the Registry building was torn down; especially the way it's perched up on top of that hill in such a grand fashion. I can't think of any other buildings in Toronto with such grand steps, and a proud entrance. It could've easily been kept, nothing worthwhile replaced it at that position.
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Agreed. It was a nice contrast. We don't preserve our buildings as well as we should.
 
But, the usual question--would it have had much more of a chance surviving anywhere else circa 1964? Remember: NYC was ripping down Penn Station at this time...
 
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Agreed. It was a nice contrast. We don't preserve our buildings as well as we should.
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Vandalism it was. As a kindergartner I remember holding gramps' hand and looking at the demolition and wondering why. Was a precocious kid, I was.
 
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