Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[lrookies]

Gas pumps have certainly changed over the years .......... And prices too!

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16 1/2 cents a gallon. Keeps going up like that and your mother's gonna have to go out to work!

 

[FrankRoberts]

407 Yonge St., Then & Now 1954-2014

 

[Blovertis]

Easy to see why Vitrolite fell out of favour. Most of the storefronts in this series feature cracked or broken panels.

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

I miss those stores with the recessed entry and big display windows.

 

[adma]

Easy to see why Vitrolite fell out of favour. Most of the storefronts in this series feature cracked or broken panels.

Though the general (not just Vitrolite) raggedness in front of 407 Yonge might also have been a vestige of the Yonge subway's cut-and-cover construction (ironic in light of the Yonge line's mythos as a Vitrolite-station showcase)

 

[FrankRoberts]

478 Yonge St., Then & Now 1954-2014

 

[Mustapha]

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/05/london-during-the-blitz-then-and-now-photographs/481851/

 

[FrankRoberts]

Corner of Avenue Rd. & Fairlawn Ave., Then & Now 1961-2014

 

[FrankRoberts]

Corner of Avenue Rd. & Fairlawn Ave., Then & Now 1965-2014

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Corner of Avenue Rd. & Fairlawn Ave., Then & Now 1961-2014"
FrankRoberts.

The date upon this pic should correspond with the later; they both being 1965.

Regards,
J T

 

[Goldie]

"Corner of Avenue Rd. & Fairlawn Ave., Then & Now 1961-2014"
FrankRoberts.

The date upon this pic should correspond with the later; they both being 1965.

Regards,
J T

Yes, J T. The two "Then" photos appear to have been shot only moments apart.
The car on the left and the woman & cop are in both images.
Interesting that the TD is now BMO and the Commerce is gone.

 

[Mustapha]

Heya, I thought you all might like a look at the very old Honolulu Chinatown here:

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/honolulu-chinatown-april-2016.25554/

 

[Goldie]

Prague Restaurant at Masaryktown Park in Scarborough -- undated

Same restaurant - May, 2016

 

[Mustapha]

Then. Toronto's 2nd Chinatown. Elizabeth Street. [The 1st was on lower York street; according to my gramps]. Looking SW at the W side of the street from a tidge S of Dundas. 1970s; going by the sideburns.

The Lichee Gardens was patronized by Canadians. Chinese Canadians would go to Kwong Chow [cut off sign on the right]. A Chinese restaurant still occupies the old Kwong Chow space, so that makes it the only 'surviving' restaurant on Elizabeth.

Warning; paragraph to follow is me mounting pulpit to air my pet grievance. Everyone has a pet thing right? Mine is this: Chinatown was halved in the late 50s by appropriation for New City Hall. We all got a New City Hall. Some of us lost a community. Being a" flaneur" of every Chinatown that I visit, I can't but help appreciate those that have remained intact. Sorry, that's my background and my 'thing' and thanks for reading.

Before the Japango, before the Chinese Express, it was a grocery store. The old men who hung out there taught me how to swear in Chinese, and told me to go home and repeat same to my mother as a practical joke. What an upbringing. I can still picture some of their faces in my minds eye. Back to our regular programming.

Now. Evening. May 12, 2016.

 

[Mustapha]

A quiet night. Dunno why I post this Then and Now. It's hardly hard hitting. Running out of material at the Toronto archives with wow factor, I suppose.


Then. St. Andrews Presbyterian Church former manse on Simcoe south of King August 25 1973.

Now. March 2016.