Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Kamuix]

Interesting study of the area that now contains the CN Tower, Skydome and an abundance of new high-rises and condos.

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Interesting how old this photos looks yet the Gardener Expressway is there, was it not built in the 1960's?

 

[barit]

That's got to be Lakeshore Boulevard. The Gardiner started construction in the mid '50s.

 

[Koolgreen]

any chance that hill on the top left is the hill which goes up to king street and where the advertising signs built from plants.........so called topariums?

http://spacing.ca/magazine/section/inner-space/gardening-for-ads/

 

[Goldie]

That's got to be Lakeshore Boulevard. The Gardiner started construction in the mid '50s.

That's certainly the Gardiner in the undated photo I posted earlier.
It must have been taken after 1962 because here's a 1962 view of the same area.

 

[barit]

Whoops, sorry! I was referring to the wrong photo.

 

[Goldie]

Start of 21 mile swim at CNE, 1927

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

Start of 21 mile swim at CNE, 1927

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That pic is of "Start of 21 mile swim at CNE, 1927" Wrigley Marathon, formerly held Stateside at their

island off the California coast, it being and continues to be known as Santa Catalina Island.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Catalina_Island,_California.

J Allan Ross, a former Chitown resident and Founding President of the Canadian Wm Wrigley Co (1910)

and was instrumental in bringing The Swim to The CNE.

Regards,
J T

 

[Goldie]

 

[Goldie]

Sunnyside Beach 1925

 

[Goldie]

At the foot of Bathurst St. --- Two baseball parks.
Maple Leaf Stadium 1926-1968 --- Hanlan's Point Stadium 1897-1937 (on the Island).
And no airport!

 

[the lemur]

At the foot of Bathurst St. --- Two baseball parks.
Maple Leaf Stadium 1926-1968 --- Hanlan's Point Stadium 1897-1937 (on the Island).
And no airport!

Interesting to see how much is actually still there: the Tip Top building, part of the Canada Malting complex (the silos) and the hexagonal Crosse & Blackwell building now owned by Rogers (but not the C&B chimney, alas).

 

[Goldie]

Jarvis St.

(University Ave.) Toronto Armouries

 

[Goldie]

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[Goldie]

CNE 1922

 

[the lemur]

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Interesting that a photo like that fetched up in the National Library of Australia. Doesn't seem to be one like it in the city archives, but judging by the Grand Opera signs it's on Adelaide, with this as the reverse angle?