Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[thecharioteer]

From the Toronto Telegram photo archives at York University:

Cleaning/repairing the Bank of Commerce Building, 1958:

Melinda Street below:

Installation of an FM Aerial by steeplejacks, 1961:

 

[Goldie]

From the Toronto Telegram photo archives at York University:

Cleaning/repairing the Bank of Commerce Building, 1958:

That's a wonderful set of photographs you've given us from the Telegram files - thanks, charioteer.
I always like to experiment with PhotoShop - here's a result:

 

[brewster]

That's a wonderful set of photographs you've given us from the Telegram files - thanks, charioteer.
I always like to experiment with PhotoShop - here's a result:

What building's are going up by the lake?

 

[thecharioteer]

What building's are going up by the lake?

Redpath Sugar.

 

[adma]

And a terrific overhead of the Board Of Trade in its final days...

 

[thecharioteer]

And a terrific overhead of the Board Of Trade in its final days...

And the hoarding for O'Keefe Centre....

 

[brewster]

Redpath Sugar.

And no Gardiner Expressway.

 

[mattelderca]

From the Toronto Telegram photo archives at York University:

Installation of an FM Aerial by steeplejacks, 1961:

I love these two, working stiffs proud of their job. That's Herb up top, Frenchie and Nick farthest down.
Get in the car and drive up to the Danforth and home. Maybe stop at the Linsmore for a tray or two. Or, pick up the wife and head down to the OP, or the Benny. Kind of reminds me of Goi'n down the road! Pure Toronto to me.

 

[Goldie]

I love these two, working stiffs proud of their job. That's Herb up top, Frenchie and Nick farthest down.
Get in the car and drive up to the Danforth and home. Maybe stop at the Linsmore for a tray or two. Or, pick up the wife and head down to the OP, or the Benny. Kind of reminds me of Goi'n down the road! Pure Toronto to me.

Speaking of "Goi'n down the road," I loved that film.
The sequel, Down the Road Again, played in one theatre downtown recently for only about a week.
I've been watching for it to appear in Scarborough, but no luck so far.
May have to get the DVD.

 

[thecharioteer]

Some more pics from the Telegram Archives: the demolition of the old Telegram Building at Bay and Melinda for Commerce Court 1964:

What was demolished:

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

John Ross Robertson.


Regards,
J T

 

[Anna]

From the Toronto Telegram photo archives at York University:

Do you know who climbed the antenna to take this photo?

 

[brewster]

Do you know who climbed the antenna to take this photo?

I volunteer Mustapha to take a Then/Now photo of this.

 

[thecharioteer]

Do you know who climbed the antenna to take this photo?

Crack Tely girl-photographer Vicki Vale (or was it Lois Lane)?

 

[Goldie]

Here's another look at the now disappeared, Melinda St. at Bay (it still exists over at Yonge).