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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
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thecharioteer
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Front Street, looking east from Bathurst:
1908 (note the dome from Loretto Abbey to the east, now the site of The Well):
1980's:
Today (photo by Red Mars):
1908 (note the dome from Loretto Abbey to the east, now the site of The Well):
1980's:
Today (photo by Red Mars):
thecharioteer
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1980's:
Proposed:
Proposed:
adma
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Would the "before" be around 1988/89 or so? That looks like one of those hipster-baiting Black Label wall ads...
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TTC Streetcar Power House. Undated photo from Cllr Moise's website - I assume 1920s.
Here it is in 1972
1978
and 2022 on Streetview
Here it is in 1972
1978
and 2022 on Streetview
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Frederick St looking north from Front. GBC building in rear, @ King. In 1972
Here it is on Streetview
Here it is on Streetview
Northern Light
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Northern Light
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Looking south on Bay Street from about a block north of Queen: (no date given) (I'm bad at dating cars from this era, but based on buildings standing, this can't be later than 1967)
As per some excellent sleuthing by @DirectionNorth we now the photo dates from 1963
Source: City Archives as marked above.
Now: (streetview)
As per some excellent sleuthing by @DirectionNorth we now the photo dates from 1963
Source: City Archives as marked above.
Now: (streetview)
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lenaitch
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Or earlier. It's always a bit of a Mugg's Game since people keep cars for several years. That Dodge is a '62 and the Pontiac is '59.
Northern Light
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Excellent contribution (as always); that narrows us to 5 years, 1962-1967.
thecharioteer
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Also, the Simpson Tower was completed in 1968 and it does not appear in the archival photo. Notwithstanding its setback, it left only three windows exposed in the Bay/Richmond building, and it the photo there are four windows:
nstuch
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that looks like a 3rd Gen Honda Accord (1986 - 1989) so probably around 1988/89 if it's indeed in the 80s
DirectionNorth
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I found the image on the Toronto Archives site: the photograph was taken by 1963. Image link
Edit: apparently the website has a session timeout. I did not know that. The images can be found, under the Eric Trussler fonds. Series 648, file 129. (I hope this link works)
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Northern Light
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Good sleuthing. I will edit accordingly!
egotrippin
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What an absolute shame, I still can't get over the loss of the Temple Building. The other building on the SW corner was quite attractive too, lost for a dinky 1 storey banking pavillion. And of course the atrocities committed to that intersection persist to this day with the horrid re-clad of the old Simpsons Building.