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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

Yonge St. south of Dundas - 1930
Amazing that the Pantages sign is still there after 87 years (now featuring "Ed Mirvish")

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Google street view:
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Goldie said:
Yonge St. south of Dundas - 1930
Amazing that the Pantages sign is still there after 87 years (now featuring "Ed Mirvish")
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Well, not exactly "still there"; actually, it's a quasi-replica (though at a flimsier scale) of the original. (Intervening was the Deco pylon of the Imperial, and the portholed 70s futurism of the Imperial Six.)
 
Thanks adma, for refreshing my memory -- how could I have forgotten all those intervening alterations?
Still, the Mervish restoration is well-done.

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Koolgreen: "is that cylindrical deal a storage tank of some sort?
Too west to be the cyclorama I presume"

That was the site of a gas company that produced and stored "coal gas."
It was distributed within the city, much as "natural gas" is today.
Used in most households for the kitchen stove.
Similar gas storage tanks, in those days, were also seen in vicinity of the Gooderham & Worts Distillery.
 
Goldie said:
Koolgreen: "is that cylindrical deal a storage tank of some sort?
Too west to be the cyclorama I presume"

That was the site of a gas company that produced and stored "coal gas."
It was distributed within the city, much as "natural gas" is today.
Used in most households for the kitchen stove.
Similar gas storage tanks, in those days, were also seen in vicinity of the Gooderham & Worts Distillery.
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Indeed: From Wiki: "A gas holder, sometimes called a gasometer, is a large container in which natural gas or town gas is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures. The volume of the container follows the quantity of stored gas, with pressure coming from the weight of a movable cap. Typical volumes for large gasholders are about 50,000 cubic metres (1,800,000 cu ft), with 60 metres (200 ft) diameter structures. Gasholders tend to be used nowadays for balancing purposes (making sure gas pipes can be operated within a safe range of pressures) rather than for actually storing gas for later use."
 
The legacy of these former gas storage tanks and related businesses is that some of these lands remain contaminated with coal tar, one of the byproducts of the coal gas, and it is costly to remediate. An unintended historical preservation.
 
This 1953 photo shows that some gas storage tanks were still in place immediately N. of the Distillery District (Gooderham & Worts).

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Yonge Street Mission, 1912

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Yonge St., 2015

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