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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

Goldie said:
Same block (looking S/E) as demolitions began for new Library.

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Is adma around? Can he confirm that that overhang on the right was part of the - I think - Loblaws store that was here at one time?

Also, the 'Checker' cab on the left in Diamond livery; that has to be the first image I've seen of this combination. These cars were plentiful in New York City up until 1990 or so. There was a spacious back seat area that sat up to five; two on fold down jump seats that folded up into the back of the front seat.
 
Mustapha said:
Is adma around? Can he confirm that that overhang on the right was part of the - I think - Loblaws store that was here at one time?

Also, the 'Checker' cab on the left in Diamond livery; that has to be the first image I've seen of this combination. These cars were plentiful in New York City up until 1990 or so. There was a spacious back seat area that sat up to five; two on fold down jump seats that folded up into the back of the front seat.
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I'm definitely not Adma, but you can see a bit of it in this shot of the southwest corner of Yonge & Yorkville - but the sign says 'Pickering Farm'?

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Well, it was *originally* Pickering Farms--though at what point did Loblaws take over, and how long did the former branding last? Judging from the mailboxes, the photo seems early 70s-ish--and that's pretty au courant sans-serif in the PF signage. (I don't really remember the place before it became a Ziggy's superstore later in the 70s.)
 
Site for Victoria Park Pumping Station & R.C. Harris Purification Plant - April 1, 1935

Victoria Park Pumping Station & R.C. Harris Purification Plant - September 1, 2014
 
Goldie said:
That one (extras colour saturation in PhotoShop) and most others are from my Nikon D3000.
Also use my 'point-and-shoot' Nikon Coolpix S2700 occasionally.
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I like what you do. I wish there was a way to create the "Kodachrome" look.
 
This photo was featured here in 2009, however the caption may have been misleading (http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/6947-Miscellany-Toronto-Photographs-Then-and-Now/page105).
Rather than, "Morning shift leaving Russell Motor Car Co. Ltd., plant at King and Duncan Streets.", it appears to be a posed group of Russell's employees (mostly women) who were producing munitions for WWI in 1917. The Russell company ceased producing cars in 1916.
I was particularly surprised to find those two buildings still existing today.

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