Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Aladone]

Hello all. Its been a while since I have been on here. Always great stuff! Keep up the wonderful work. Hours of fun looking through the posts. This is definitely Toronto's Then and Now central command!

-Alden

Goldie, I hope you don't mind. I saw this and had to mix

 

[Goldie]

Nice mix (as always), Alden. Glad to be of service.
I'll add this to my collection.

 

[Mustapha]

Another view, 1911:

View attachment 13667

Looking at a photograph of such clarity is almost like time travel. I took a moment to walk over to Yonge street and back. Thank you thecharioteer [and the online Toronto Archives].

 

[Mustapha]

"Then. 42 Adelaide W. 'The New Premises'. c1907. McLeod & Allen. I wonder what commerce they were engaged in? "
QUOTE: Mustapha.

MIGHT'S TORONTO CITY DIRECTORY - 1909:

40 - 42 Adelaide Street W,
McLeod & Allen. pubirs.
Eaton Hurlbut Paper Co.
McClelland & Goodchild, pubirs.
Book Supply Co Ltd.
Cassel & Co Ltd, publrs.'
Harmsworth(t?) Pup(lishing) Co.


Regards,
J T

38 – 42 Adelaide W. circa 1892:

How neat; a little publishing district.

 

[Mustapha]

Hello all. Its been a while since I have been on here. Always great stuff! Keep up the wonderful work. Hours of fun looking through the posts. This is definitely Toronto's Then and Now central command!

-Alden

Goldie, I hope you don't mind. I saw this and had to mix

Inspired by my own less than original thought about photograph-as-time-travel; and Aladone's 'mix'; I offer this bit of amusement I found on the internet:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...goes-historys-iconic-moments-add-herself.html

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for June 7, 2013.







June 12, 1929. Mutual Street Loop. Opened in 1929. Situated on the E side of Mutual between Oueen and Shuter. I wonder when they closed it? I Googled with no luck.

Now. April 2013.

 

[Goldie]

Inspired by my own less than original thought about photograph-as-time-travel; and Aladone's 'mix'; I offer this bit of amusement I found on the internet:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...goes-historys-iconic-moments-add-herself.html

What a fine idea! I love it!

 

[thecharioteer]

"Then. 42 Adelaide W. 'The New Premises'. c1907. McLeod & Allen. I wonder what commerce they were engaged in? "
QUOTE: Mustapha.

MIGHT'S TORONTO CITY DIRECTORY - 1909:

40 - 42 Adelaide Street W,
McLeod & Allen. pubirs.
Eaton Hurlbut Paper Co.
McClelland & Goodchild, pubirs.
Book Supply Co Ltd.
Cassel & Co Ltd, publrs.'
Harmsworth(t?) Pup(lishing) Co.


Regards,
J T




How neat; a little publishing district.

The Empire newspaper, founded by Sir John A. MacDonald:

http://torontoist.com/2011/03/historicst_the_conservative_empire/

 

[thecharioteer]

By 1927, the Empire building was gone:

And one last view, in a postcard postmarked 1904:

(Theatrical side-note: the Majestic Theatre was converted to the Regent Theatre in 1915-16, architect Thomas Lamb, who designed the Elgin/Wintergarden)

http://www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/1429

 

[Mustapha]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/07/inside_1_spadina_crescent.html

 

[FAW]

Then and Now for June 7, 2013.







June 12, 1929. Mutual Street Loop. Opened in 1929. Situated on the E side of Mutual between Oueen and Shuter. I wonder when they closed it? I Googled with no luck.

According to this site: http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4111.shtml "Mutual Loop was closed on December 21, 1944"

Paul

 

[thecharioteer]

The King/Wellington/Bay/York block:

1889:



Today:



1930:





Today:

 

[Mustapha]

The King/Wellington/Bay/York block:

1889:

Interesting. 'The Grant Lithographic Co.' in the middle of this map appears to me to be a subsequent usage of the Royal Lyceum Theatre -what with its size and location on Theatre Lane. See page 705 of this thread for a prior discussion.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for June 7, 2013.







June 12, 1929. Mutual Street Loop. Opened in 1929. Situated on the E side of Mutual between Oueen and Shuter. I wonder when they closed it? I Googled with no luck.

According to this site: http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4111.shtml "Mutual Loop was closed on December 21, 1944"

Paul

Thank you Paul. I appreciate your closing the loop on this one.

 

[Goldie]

I've just become aware of a new book which will certainly interest members of Urban Toronto.
"Full Frontal T.O." contains hundreds of photographs by one of our contributors, Patrick Cummins.

See: http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/full-frontal