Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[DSC]

" Hard to believe a Harvey's now sits where that mansion was. "
QUOTE: Ex-Montreal Girl.

AKA Jarvis & Harveys.

and/or

"It's mainly because of the meat." (Old Dominion Grocery Stores slogan.)



regards,
j t

Well, it is know as the "Hooker Harveys" :->

 

[thecharioteer]

1911:

1940 (SW corner of Jarvis and Gerrard):

1956:

 

[Ex-Montreal Girl]

Former Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau did a lot of terrible things -- allowing Sherbrooke St. mansions to be replaced by ugly concrete bunkers, for example -- but the one good thing he did was bury the wires. Sometimes I wonder what else is buried in the concrete (The Big O, the Bonaventure Expressway) he had built in such a rush and at such great cost. ;-)

 

[Conrad Black]

I certainly wish Fred Gardiner had buried the hydro lines while he was busy building Toronto's highways.

 

[DSC]

Former Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau did a lot of terrible things -- allowing Sherbrooke St. mansions to be replaced by ugly concrete bunkers, for example -- but the one good thing he did was bury the wires. Sometimes I wonder what else is buried in the concrete (The Big O, the Bonaventure Expressway) he had built in such a rush and at such great cost. ;-)

In Montreal there is a City agency (Conduits de Montreal) that builds ALL the conduits (Hydro, phones, cable etc ) and rents them to the utilities. This does cut down on streets being dug up in sequence and brings in $$ to the City BUT the City has to pay initially,

 

[thecharioteer]

Those trees were so beautiful.

 

[Goldie]

Courthouse Square, a most unusual and obscure park in the heart of downtown (10 Court St.).


Detail within Courthouse Square

 

[DSC]

Fantastic pic of Court House Square - the aerial view really shows it off very well - it's nice from ground-level but fantastic from above!

 

[Goldie]

Fantastic pic of Court House Square - the aerial view really shows it off very well - it's nice from ground-level but fantastic from above!

I should have given a credit for the high-angle photo but there was none available on the web site where the photo was found.
Only this note (probably the Square's designers): Janet Rosenberg & Associates

 

[Goldie]

Neat animation featuring the streets of Torobnto in the 1940s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SwkQZKX_I

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Neat animation featuring the streets of Torobnto in the 1940s: "
QUOTE: Prof Goldie.

A good "Short" to be watching after having rolled a smoke; EXPORT tobacco & papers.
(A carton of CAMEL Plain being delivered this week is a plus.)


Regards,
J T

 

[junctionist]

In Montreal there is a City agency (Conduits de Montreal) that builds ALL the conduits (Hydro, phones, cable etc ) and rents them to the utilities. This does cut down on streets being dug up in sequence and brings in $$ to the City BUT the City has to pay initially,

That agency predates Jean Drapeau by a lot. It's from the early 20th century. Montreal has gotten a lot of overhead wires buried in the past century.

 

[k10ery]

Fantastic pic of Court House Square - the aerial view really shows it off very well - it's nice from ground-level but fantastic from above!

I hardly recognized it without the dumpsters or idling trucks around the edges. (Sorry, but this is not my favourite park.)

 

[Silence&Motion]

I hardly recognized it without the dumpsters or idling trucks around the edges. (Sorry, but this is not my favourite park.)

Yeah, it's a shame that such a well designed square has been treated so poorly. It has so much potential. I guess all of those restaurants need to put their dumpsters somewhere. The square itself is also filthy.

 

[Goldie]

Old TSE Building, 234 Bay St. - sculpted mural - detail