hawc
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^^^ Wow, steel high-rise building, that's not something you see anymore in Toronto. Crazy how much of the floor space is taken up by the elevator shafts.
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
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It looks exactly the same to me as the method being used to build Bay-Adelaide at the current time. See: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showth...field-44s-KPMB-amp-Adamson-Associates)/page81
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barit
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Don't forget the stairs!
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This image of 36 King Street East from 1963 was posted on r/toronto, if anybody wants to go get a "now" picture?
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This photo and more of the building plus (I think) a current shot was on UT (this thread?) about a year ago. Here's a shot from Google Streetview.
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Here's another version - 1963/2013
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With the exact picture I used, whoops.
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Not to worry, it's more scary that I remembered seeing it. I guess my memory has not (quite) gone yet. :->
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Then: December 1954. Yonge St. looking N from N of Asquith Ave. I love the sign in the restaurant window (right side of photo) ... '35c for fish and chips.'
Now. Toronto Central Library on the right.
There are a series of poignant panoramic pictures in the corridor outside the New City Hall branch library. They are of Toronto based army regiments taken just before shipping overseas for the Great War. One of the pictures taken in a treeless Riverdale Park shows Winchester Street descending into the Don Valley behind the assembled troops. I'd never seen this before and thought it quite neat. I couldn't find the picture online but for those of you who want to try again the info is: 'Sportman's Battalion - 180th Overseas Battalion. CEF in Riverdale Park. Toronto April 13, 1916. Fonds 253. Series 2163. File 47.'
Collectors Weekly. If you like Old Stuff, and the history of it. This is worth a browse. A well done website.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/
2.6 million old book images now online. Searchable too. Imagine the possibilities.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/with/14784850762/
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Now. Toronto Central Library on the right.
There are a series of poignant panoramic pictures in the corridor outside the New City Hall branch library. They are of Toronto based army regiments taken just before shipping overseas for the Great War. One of the pictures taken in a treeless Riverdale Park shows Winchester Street descending into the Don Valley behind the assembled troops. I'd never seen this before and thought it quite neat. I couldn't find the picture online but for those of you who want to try again the info is: 'Sportman's Battalion - 180th Overseas Battalion. CEF in Riverdale Park. Toronto April 13, 1916. Fonds 253. Series 2163. File 47.'
Collectors Weekly. If you like Old Stuff, and the history of it. This is worth a browse. A well done website.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/
2.6 million old book images now online. Searchable too. Imagine the possibilities.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/with/14784850762/
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Goldie
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Then: December 1954. Yonge St. looking N from N of Asquith Ave. I love the sign in the restaurant window (right side of photo) ... '35c for fish and chips.'
Now. Toronto Central Library on the right.
Same block (looking S/E) as demolitions began for new Library.
thecharioteer
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See a post I did on the block on April 15, 2011:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/11018-Evocative-Images-of-Lost-Toronto/page81
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/11018-Evocative-Images-of-Lost-Toronto/page81
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A really nice combination of urban and traditional culture
Mustapha
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Here's another version - 1963/2013
What a resource you are Goldie,, taking both the Then and the Now pictures - 50 years apart. Thank you.