Therion
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Well teh interwebs is not a series of tubes, you know... Easy to get lost.
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tomms
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yyzer
Senior Member
fabulous pics, tomms, and an important photo-record of the changes taking place at Yonge & Bloor....
LowPolygon
Senior Member
yesterday
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these are fantastic. excellent work!
Redroom Studios
Senior Member
as always, thanks for getting into locations where just about nobody else can!
CDL.TO
Moderator
Amazing photos! Many thanks!
Therion
Senior Member
There goes my favourite Indian restaurant in the whole city .
/not really, they moved down to Hayden.
//still, precious memories...
./not really, they moved down to Hayden.
//still, precious memories...
tomms
Active Member
thanks for the kind words everyone
the grounds really do look like a war zone, partially collapsed floors, titling stair cases, and falling ceilings. the guts of the building torn out and spread out in no senseable order.
P.S. i didnt have much time to play with the photos this morning, ive since updated a couple of the photos above.
the grounds really do look like a war zone, partially collapsed floors, titling stair cases, and falling ceilings. the guts of the building torn out and spread out in no senseable order.
P.S. i didnt have much time to play with the photos this morning, ive since updated a couple of the photos above.
egotrippin
Senior Member
I agree, the first thing that came to my mind was images of European cities ravaged during the war. Amazing shots.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
Fantastic shots. There's something very sad about these demolitions that I hadn't felt until I looked at these images.
Blovertis
Active Member
I'm usually one to blubber on sentimentally about the loss of old buildings, but not this time. There is nothing distinguished about any in this collection, especially the building at the corner of Yonge and Bloor that housed City Optical. For years I wondered why, even in the 1950's, the developer thought it economically worthwhile to put up a two-story building at such an important corner. Surely the city didn't limit the height?
LowPolygon
Senior Member
I think its because the corner wasn't seen as all that important at the time. The intersection has always been far less dense than Yonge/Queen, King/Bay etc.
The first towers ever built on those corners are the ones that are there now, 2 Bloor West, and HBC--both dating from the 1970's. Before they were built, i'm pretty sure all four corners were low rise.
in other words, the idea that Yonge/Bloor is the most important downtown intersection seems to be a fairly recent idea.
adma
Superstar
And that was also back when Queen, rather than Bloor, was still the "preferred" E-W subway routing...
asiancolossus
Active Member
wow, progress
Thanks so much tomms for the pictures, I hope you didn't get hurt trudging through the rubble getting those!
Has anyone heard if sales are still ongoing and what the latest in terms of units sold in the building? Now that there has been a slowdown in the market in the past year, are these units selling at all?
I wonder if people are still paying such sky high rates to buy these units? Shortly after all this hype, someone on this board was saying a 2 bedroom unit selling for 600K was going for 800K!!! Has the price come down since then??
Thanks so much tomms for the pictures, I hope you didn't get hurt trudging through the rubble getting those!
Has anyone heard if sales are still ongoing and what the latest in terms of units sold in the building? Now that there has been a slowdown in the market in the past year, are these units selling at all?
I wonder if people are still paying such sky high rates to buy these units? Shortly after all this hype, someone on this board was saying a 2 bedroom unit selling for 600K was going for 800K!!! Has the price come down since then??
Jayomatic
Active Member
The 1 bdrm units started at 800K didn't they?
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