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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

Then and Now for April 25.


Then. 'The Dr. Young Memorial Fountain, Kew Gardens Toronto. Maurice D. Klein Architect.' c1920. Klein also worked on Holy Blossom Temple on Bathurst Street.

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Now. July 2011. Unmolested but not functioning. Some nice details.

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Hello,

I need help again.

I've been looking at the online Goad Fire maps for 'Price's Lane' with no success.

A search of the online Toronto archives shows a few pictures of this laneway with some ramshackle wooden cottages on it.

I'd love to know where it was.

Thank you!

-Jeff
 
Mustapha said:
Then and Now for April 25.


Then. 'The Dr. Young Memorial Fountain, Kew Gardens Toronto. Maurice D. Klein Architect.' c1920. Klein also worked on Holy Blossom Temple on Bathurst Street.

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I remember drinking from this fountain quite often as I rode my bike around the park and beaches area, about 1973/74. Hot summer days and no such thing as bottled water!
The plaque says the statue was replaced, but the original photo looks just like what is there now. Curious.
 
"Goad Fire maps for 'Price's Lane"
QUOTE Mustapha.

Name change to Barnaby Place - north from 85 Edward Street.


Regards,
J T

BTW, your "other enquiry" - King Street.
 
kitestate said:
hey all
i have not contributed much, but have been around this thread for 2+ yrs and always appreciate strolling through the wonderful pages...
just wanted to highlight a neat event coming on, for those who follow patrick's amazing flickr photostream of toronto and environs-http://www.flickr.com/photos/32175940@N06/7092040645/in/photostream
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Hi kitestate, I realize now that 'patrick' is 'collations' of the 'a little variety, please' thread that was quite popular here awhile back...
 
Then and Now for April 26.


Then. Wilson Avenue. Toronto. c1967-ish, judging from the cars.

The Beverly Hills Motor Hotel.

That name... trying to evoke the Los Angeles/Hollywood sensibility of that age. A warm golden sunset casting its long rays over an aquamarine swimming pool; leisured and glamourous couples lolling about speaking in quiet confident murmurs; unescorted red lipsticked starlets their eyes flashing behind Rayban Clubmasters; suicide door-ed Lincoln Continentals outside parked by pillbox capped white gloved valets.

Ok. I'll stop.

Then *bam*, it hits you as you leave; it's still Wilson Avenue. :)

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Now. September 2011. That sign is a real loss, I love the 'atomic' thing going on on top. I wonder too if the Pagoda Coffee House has been renovated out of existence?

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"Then *bam*, it hits you as you leave; it's still Wilson Avenue."
QUOTE Mustapha.

With Crang Plaza Motors, just down the street on the north side.

(Home of the Jigsaw Cars.)


Regards,
J T
 
"1. King East or West?"
QUOTE Mustapha.

West.


"2. Jigsaw cars???"
QUOTE Mustapha.

Crang Plaza Motors was a "volume dealer" in that they probably advertised more than

"Try Ted Davy" (on the Danforth) ever even dreamed about.

It was The Old Used Car Trick of buying rusted - out junk, filling the holes with old news

paper & insect screening, covering up the mess with plastic auto body filler, and then -

painting the car a light colour, which hid all of the Pacific Ocean Waves.

Another "Refubishment" was to buy a couple of wrecks and make one auto of the two.

The first "Trick" was endemic in the "Used Car Business" during at the least during

the 50's/60's/70's, but the "Chop Shop Guys" had to go - way too many complaints.


Reguards,
J T
 
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Any of our wealthier readers interested in a set of Robertson? Listed on Abebooks.com



Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto: A Collection of Sketches of the Old Town of York and of Toronto from 1834 to 1893. (A Complete Set of Six Volumes)

Robertson, J. Ross

Bookseller: Jason Dickson ABAC ILAB

(Bracebridge, ON, Canada)

Price: US$ 1500.00

Book Description: J. Ross Robertson, Toronto. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1894-1914. 6 vols. Fascinating illustrations - portraits, street scenes, house interiors and exteriors, historical vignettes, facsimiles and maps. Many fold-outs. Variant blue and purple cloth. Rebacked with new endpapers. Original spines reapplied. A detailed record of Toronto from 1792 to 1914. Bookseller Inventory # 010628
 
"Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto"
QUOTE DSC.

There are better and there are worse, for the money, but do remember that volume

No 3 was limited to a production run of only 500 copies due to a fire at the printing plant.


Regards,
J T
 
Mustapha said:
Then and Now for April 26.


Then. Wilson Avenue. Toronto. c1967-ish, judging from the cars.

The Beverly Hills Motor Hotel.

That name... trying to evoke the Los Angeles/Hollywood sensibility of that age. A warm golden sunset casting its long rays over an aquamarine swimming pool; leisured and glamourous couples lolling about speaking in quiet confident murmurs; unescorted red lipsticked starlets their eyes flashing behind Rayban Clubmasters; suicide door-ed Lincoln Continentals outside parked by pillbox capped white gloved valets.



Ok. I'll stop.

Then *bam*, it hits you as you leave; it's still Wilson Avenue. :)

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Now. September 2011. That sign is a real loss, I love the 'atomic' thing going on on top. I wonder too if the Pagoda Coffee House has been renovated out of existence?

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OMG...my wife and I honeymooned there for three days in December of 1975. It was all we could afford. We stayed in room 435. Every time the heat in our room kicked on the whole room vibrated for a minute or two. We saw Danny and the Juniors in their show on the Sunday night.
 
lrookies said:
OMG...my wife and I honeymooned there for three days in December of 1975. It was all we could afford. We stayed in room 435. Every time the heat in our room kicked on the whole room vibrated for a minute or two. We saw Danny and the Juniors in their show on the Sunday night.
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We stayed at the Windsor Arms, for one night. In 1979, pre-renovation, the place was old.
 
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