Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Gregory Graham]

Great photo Goldie!

 

[Long Island Mike]

Happy 45th Birthday New City Hall.

[Lapel pin; a recent score at St. Lawrence Antique Market]

Mustapha: Good memory-I remember getting one of these pins back on one of my trips around 1980 in the same folder card!
They were sold as souvenirs at City Hall back then...
City Hall in my opinion was and still is one of the best modern buildings in Toronto...
LI MIKE

 

[adma]

Thanks for the discussion regarding my query, very illuminating!

Re: Peter St looking south..... there's a quite blatant example of the old being better. That building at the back left with the raised middle is beautiful.

Still extant: only blocked from view by the mass of 111 Peter.

Also, the second building on the right with the thing on the roof impresses me more.

Still extant, too; but the cornice is gone...

 

[moe45673]

That's what I meant. The cornice is gone. I knew it was the same building

 

[Mustapha]

Mustapha: Good memory-I remember getting one of these pins back on one of my trips around 1980 in the same folder card!
They were sold as souvenirs at City Hall back then...
City Hall in my opinion was and still is one of the best modern buildings in Toronto...
LI MIKE

LI MIKE, nice to know there are more than one of these pins out there, and treasured.


September 16 addition:


Then. I did Ossington awhile back. I missed this one; here you go everyone.

Now. June 2010.

 

[Goldie]

While on the Danforth attempting the Winchester Drive photo (Historic photos from Toronto on this day), I discovered this wonderful old farm house off the beaten path.
The owner showed me his copy of the 1912 archive photo.

 

[moe45673]

That church sure has undergone quite a change

 

[HHC]

Literally looks as if the last one was razed and they rebuilt it.

 

[Goldie]

Church at Bowden St.

This view shows the original church structure (attached thumbnail).

 

[moe45673]

A new front! Very cool

 

[Mustapha]

Goldie, there is a "Snider" farmhouse not too far from my place. It's on the west side of Duplex Ave between Lytton and Alexandra. Quite a grand looking place.

There is another farmhouse on Barbarry Pl just N of Sheppard; well looked after.

Both are like your discovery; a little hidden...


September 17 addition.


Then. "Fairbank Firehall. Area No. 1". Vaughan at Greyton Cres.

Now. July 2010.

 

[Goldie]

That's a great match-up - same house in the background. Congratulations!

 

[thecharioteer]

Having grown up in Cedarvale and attending Vaughan Rd C.I. way back in the Stone Age, I liked your Fairbank Firehall pic, Mustapha (back in the day when the Township of York elected Reeves, instead of Aldermen). I still remember driving with my dad on Eglinton West as a child and passing barns mixed in with car-dealerships.

Two pics of the Eglinton/Dufferin/Vaughan interesction in 1924:

And a couple of weeks earlier further south on Oakwood:

And:

 

[Goldie]

Two items from the other end of town -- Danforth Ave.

 

[Goldie]

And another from 'far out' Scarborough.