Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[thecharioteer]

A little bit of experimentation on the Hanlan Hotel pic:



And the RCYC pics:










And the Stanley Barracks one:

 

[nostalgic]

Nice!

 

[Goldie]

Nice work, charioteer!
Beautiful experiment.
Perhaps marketable?

 

[thecharioteer]

Thanks, guys!

Interesting trio from the Larry Becker collection in the Archives:

 

[Conrad Black]

^ Postcards?

 

[LowPolygon]

Yonge Street Arcade, March 1953 and December 1954

 

[thecharioteer]

^ Postcards?

Yes.

 

[thecharioteer]

deepend: Love your closeups of the last days of the Arcade Building. Special request: do the same on the first days?

 

[LowPolygon]

here you are! the print is pretty scuffed up, especially towards the bottom, but there is a lot of detail in there...

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

In case anyone was wondering what the Oaklands Jersey Dairy was up to:

http://archive.org/details/cihm_35560

Koumiss, apparently the wonder cure for all sorts.

 

[thecharioteer]

Thanks, deepend! This closeup business can be very addictive...

 

[Goldie]

Thank you for those wonderful, rare views.
Particularly this one ...... looking directly up Yonge Street.

 

[LowPolygon]

The other lesser known arcade, Manning Arcade, 24 King St West, June 1955

 

[Goldie]

The other lesser known arcade, Manning Arcade, 24 King St West, June 1955

Could this be the original site of what later became Toronto Camera Exchange (owned by a Rutherford family)?

 

[thecharioteer]

Old Union Station: