Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[DSCToronto]

First day first post. Love this forum and this particular thread!

Welcome to our world! This is a great thread!

 

[szuberi]

Welcome to our world! This is a great thread!

Thanks very much!

 

[LPCI]

Welcome to our world! This is a great thread!

This site is a mental health lifesaver. It’s a wonderful world as DSC says, and thanks to Mustapha.

 

[Mustapha]

College and Huron SE corner again. I forgot this particular 'Then' [May 2015 I think], it was on my laptop.

The condo builders here perhaps sought to give the impression of an old facade saved, or a street level in tune with the neighborhood, but in fact the original building was demolished.

 

[Towered]

Disgusting.

 

[Goldie]

The original is certainly more colourful.
I love colourful structures, especially these in Newfoundland:

 

[Mustapha]

Goldie, your signature look all over this picture. Which city and when were you there?

 

[Goldie]

Sorry to disappoint Mustapha, but it's not my image..........I wish it were.
I found it on a Google spread of magnificent colour in Nfld.
Unfortunately, I found no credit.

 

[lenaitch]

The original is certainly more colourful.
I love colourful structures, especially these in Newfoundland:
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I found those 'jellybean' row houses in St. John's fascinating, but colourful houses are common across a lot of Atlantic Canada.

 

[Northern Light]

Some discussion of the intersection of Dundas and Chestnut in the 80s thread.

I remembered the gas station on one corner, but couldn't find a photo for it in that decade.

So.....here's what I did find.

Dundas-Chestnut, south-east corner in May 1938:

Source Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_east_corner_of_Dundas_and_Chestnut_Streets.jpg
Originates w/Toronto Archives: Series 372, Subseries 33, Item 368.

Now, the same site, still with a gas station, in 1972:

Source: Toronto Archives: Fonds 2032, Series 841, File 1, Item 10

~2020 :

Source: Streetview

 

[adma]

What's interesting is that *both* the 1938 *and* the 1972 versions are interesting for their own era--the latter with its space-frame roof and Brutalist party walls definitely had more architectural pretensions than your typical 70s urban gas station...

 

[Towered]

Strange that the gas station was replaced with only a 2 storey building in such a prominent area...

 

[LPCI]

Some discussion of the intersection of Dundas and Chestnut in the 80s thread.

I remembered the gas station on one corner, but couldn't find a photo for it in that decade.

So.....here's what I did find.

Dundas-Chestnut, south-east corner in May 1938:

View attachment 280112
Source Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_east_corner_of_Dundas_and_Chestnut_Streets.jpg
Originates w/Toronto Archives: Series 372, Subseries 33, Item 368.

Now, the same site, still with a gas station, in 1972:

View attachment 280113
Source: Toronto Archives: Fonds 2032, Series 841, File 1, Item 10

~2020 :

View attachment 280114
Source: Streetview

Verniers Ginger Ale painted on wall over a tobacco ad, then by 1972 painted with a Coca Cola ad.

 

[Northern Light]

Verniers Ginger Ale painted on wall over a tobacco ad, then by 1972 painted with a Coca Cola ad.

Vernor's still exists, but isn't exactly common in these parts. Apparently decent market presence in Michigan (the company was founded in Detroit, and currently bottles/cans for the U.S. in Holland, Mich.)

Vernor's in Canada is actually bottled/canned here, in Mississauga, but apparently is mostly available/sold in Windsor.

 

[JB1980]

Gerrard Street East and Norwood Road; 17 March 1966

Source: City of Toronto Archives; Fonds 16, Series 2166, File 612

Gerrard Street East and Norwood Road; October 2020