Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[adma]

Keep in mind that CF Jefferies and the Jolly Miller aren't the only survivors: the Auberge Du Pommier repurposed an existing house, too...

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for March 19, 2013.



The Case of the Shrunken Building on the northeast corner of Dundas and McCaul.







Then. March 6, 1912.

Now. March 2013.

Compare the Then and Now photos to see how much of the building was removed to allow the widening of Dundas street.

Nice lady at the lower left even smiled at me.

Here's a picture of the widening in progress. We are looking E along Dundas from McCaul.

 

[themarc]

Keep in mind that CF Jefferies and the Jolly Miller aren't the only survivors: the Auberge Du Pommier repurposed an existing house, too...

I had great aunts and uncles who grew up on Roselawn who used to walk to the Miller on Saturday nights for their "imbibing" but I also had friends who used to live in the house(s)? that became the Auberge. The first time I saw it converted I was "really?". Maybe its just because I grew up there and the school house is long gone but the area has something special about it still - it's just so displaced from the rest of the city in character. It has this "Mayberry" quality about it - and I moved around a little bit growing up...

 

[themarc]

I had great aunts and uncles who grew up on Roselawn who used to walk to the Miller on Saturday nights for their "imbibing" but I also had friends who used to live in the house(s)? that became the Auberge. The first time I saw it converted I was "really?". Maybe its just because I grew up there and the school house is long gone but the area has something special about it still - it's just so displaced from the rest of the city in character. It has this "Mayberry" quality about it - and I moved around a little bit growing up...

And if anyone remembers (or better yet has pictures of) the old Maple Leaf Hotel in Tottenham let me know. It burned down in the late 70's or early 80's. It was my grandparent's place up until the early 70's. Very little record of it survived.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for March 20, 2013.




Then. May 9, 1919. Dundas and Bond looking S.

Now. September 2012.

 

[Anna]

Keep in mind that CF Jefferies and the Jolly Miller aren't the only survivors: the Auberge Du Pommier repurposed an existing house, too...

I had great aunts and uncles who grew up on Roselawn who used to walk to the Miller on Saturday nights for their "imbibing" but I also had friends who used to live in the house(s)? that became the Auberge. The first time I saw it converted I was "really?". Maybe its just because I grew up there and the school house is long gone but the area has something special about it still - it's just so displaced from the rest of the city in character. It has this "Mayberry" quality about it - and I moved around a little bit growing up...

Are these them?

 

[Anna]

I had great aunts and uncles who grew up on Roselawn who used to walk to the Miller on Saturday nights for their "imbibing" but I also had friends who used to live in the house(s)? that became the Auberge. The first time I saw it converted I was "really?". Maybe its just because I grew up there and the school house is long gone but the area has something special about it still - it's just so displaced from the rest of the city in character. It has this "Mayberry" quality about it - and I moved around a little bit growing up...

The {Jolly} Miller through the ages
1931

ca 1936

ca 1945

1955

1967?

1980

2009

 

[Lone Primate]

The {Jolly} Miller through the ages

That's a really astonishing range of photos and little changes every time. The disappearance of trees, the widening of Yonge, the phone booth that came and went, the side door that was bricked up, the adjacent building that vanished, the style of the cladding... people probably hardly noticed it while it was all going on but seeing it laid out here all in one shot really makes an impression. Bravo, Anna.

 

[Mustapha]

That's a really astonishing range of photos and little changes every time. The disappearance of trees, the widening of Yonge, the phone booth that came and went, the side door that was bricked up, the adjacent building that vanished, the style of the cladding... people probably hardly noticed it while it was all going on but seeing it laid out here all in one shot really makes an impression. Bravo, Anna.

+1

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for March 21, 2013.



Then. 36 Mutual Street. Appliance warehouse, meter repair shop and garage. c1923. Picture sourced by wwwebster.

Now. September 2012. This city block has been a parking lot for going on 40 years now... I wonder who owns it?

 

[plink]

The {Jolly} Miller through the ages

If I might be permitted to add some additional Jolly Miller images [sorry if these have been previously posted]... Alas, I do not have dates for the last two. Identification, anyone?

1915 sketch of the Jolly Miller -- formerly David Birrell's Hotel

1954

1957

 

[Anna]

Another interesting photo and history here
YORK MILLS/HOGGS HOLLOW (JANE JACOBS’ WALK - 2011)

 

[railmus]

Looks like they totally rebuilt the facade on the south side of the building in "The Case of the Shrunken Building" .

 

[Goldie]

THE DUNCAN HOUSE

 

[Mustapha]

How nice that someone thought this image was worth capturing. Just before they restored it; how very neat.