More Lost Toronto in colour

[GenerationW]

Great shots, and I especially love the last one. Nothing beats autumn pictures.

 

[condovo]

Wonderful street-scapes. Terrible loss of the Board of Trade building and the blocks behind the Gooderham/Flatiron building. Also, Pizza-Pizza should be disbanded for their criminal mangling of that lovely, Modernist TD branch, if it is in fact their doing. Also, I'm hoping for a skinny, Museum House-type of development to fill the currently empty lot at the S/E corner of King/Church. Otherwise, nice to see how much of the city is still intact or improved since (most of) these shots were taken nearly sixty years ago. Thanks for posting them.

 

[thecharioteer]

Here are a group of colour pictures from the Ontario Archives from both the 50's and early 60's:

1960:

1952:

1953:

1958:

Royal Visit, 1959:

Dupont/Davenport 1960:

Eglinton E.1960:

Lakeshore 1960:

The QEW 1960:

Woodbine 1959:

O'Keefe Centre 1960:

King Street 1959:

Yonge Street 1959:

Casa Loma 1959:

AGO 1960:

La Chaumiere 1960:

High Park 1959:

 

[Anth]

Wow, thanks for posting those!

AGO 1960: "Soviet Painting"??

Must be an exhibit.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Nice to be reminded of the AGO, roughly as it looked when I arrived in '70 - and to realize that the fine original galleries surrounding Walker Court have ( mostly ) survived the three renovations since.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Lost Toronto: The 50s and early 60s-neat pics!

Charioteer: Good pics from "back in the day!" here - it would be neat to view
comparisons to Today for these pics here...
Those streetcar pics with the Peter Witt and PCC cars were neat also!
LI MIKE

 

[thecharioteer]

Two more from the Ontario Archives:

CNE 1953

 

[condovo]

Eglinton E c.1960 appears to have a whole lot more integrity in this shot than Eglinton E c.2009.

Eglinton E.1960:

Interesting to note that old, brown brick apartment building from one of Mustapha's recent Then & Now pairings.

August 26 addition.


Looking E along Eglinton from Redpath.

Thanks for the great images, Charioteer.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Some great shots of what looks to be a very dull town.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Those Eglinton East buildings look so 2009.

 

[Anna]

The 3rd brown brick apartment building in the 1960 picture, just to the east of the two in Mustapha's 'then' picture, is now the white-clad building with the backpack billboard on top.
I assume it was done by the condo developer - and it looks horrid. They did the front, and about 3 feet back on either side - and left the old, original, green(?) front door.

 

[Mustapha]

The 3rd brown brick apartment building in the 1960 picture, just to the east of the two in Mustapha's 'then' picture, is now the white-clad building with the backpack billboard on top.
I assume it was done by the condo developer - and it looks horrid. They did the front, and about 3 feet back on either side - and left the old, original, green(?) front door.

Correct. There aren't many of these old walkups in this neighbourhood anymore. A block north at the NW corner of Redpath and Broadway one was razed a couple years ago for another sleek condo now filled with sleek 20somethings making their way in the world. My son just got his first place - in a walkup - tenants are a mix of the very young who seemed to have just struck out on their own. And older folks who look like they might have sold a house and helped their children out. This is what I imagine anyways.

 

[Anna]

Two actually - one was called the 'Broadway Arms'.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lopix/319891667/in/photostream/

 

[Mustapha]

Two actually - one was called the 'Broadway Arms'.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lopix/319891667/in/photostream/

That's them. Broadway avenue apartments were also a 'catch basin' for North Toronto couples who marriages had foundered. One would stay in the home; one would move into a place on this street; or Erskine to the north, in order to be close to the children.

 

[adma]

Two more from the Ontario Archives:

CNE 1953

Later than 1953. The Shell Tower (1955) is in them.