Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

I'm pleased that you've introduced "selfie" Then & Nows to this site, Rudy.
Here's mine.
Let's have more contributors.

 

[DSC]

ca 1950 vs 2016 - though both are, maybe, more evocative of Ireland than Toronto.

 

[Goldie]

Leanne's post about the 'grandfather, munitions worker' (see above)
reminded me of the GECO (General Engineering Co.) munitions plant
that was built on the farmlands of Scarborough during WWII.
The site was on the S. side of Eglinton, between Warden and Birchmount.

Aerial photo

That's Mary Pickford ("Canada's Sweetheart") visiting from Hollywood during wartime fund-raising.

 

[r937]

That's Mary Pickford ("Canada's Sweetheart") visiting from Hollywood during wartime fund-raising.

i have a pic somewhere but i can't find it, so google streetview will have to do... 90 Glenwood Cres

 

[Goldie]

I was always under the impression that the Mary Pickford Bungalow was used in a lottery to win the new home.
My parents took me to see that house when I was about 9 - I expect they must have bought a "share."
According to r937's photo of a ticket (above post), there's no mention of a "raffle"
so I may have been mistaken in the use of that term when I made this montage in 2011.

 

[Goldie]

Eastern Baseball League, opening game of season at Diamond Park, Liberty St., s.e. cor. Fraser Ave --- 1907

 

[Moonflake]

With the iconic imperial oil and bata buildings too!!!!

And Oxford University Press and the Don Mills curling rink.

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, at Massey Hall 1911

 

[Goldie]

Horticultural Building, CNE 1921

 

[Monk]

I'm pleased that you've introduced "selfie" Then & Nows to this site, Rudy.
Here's mine.
Let's have more contributors.

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Nice pic Goldie. Wish I still had my Speed Graphic.
My Dad was photographed by Pringle and Booth for company report or catalogue. Since he has hair probably taken in the mid 1930s.

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Island 1937 - before the airport

 

[Red October]

Is that Hanlan's Point Stadium middle-left?

The stadium where Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run.

 

[Goldie]

Is that Hanlan's Point Stadium middle-left?

The stadium where Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run.

It is ............ here's another view:

 

[Koolgreen]

very strange that you would have to take a ferry out to see a game....city fathers even then had excellent decision making skills...

 

[Goldie]

Taking a ferry in those day would certainly add to the wonderful experience of attending a game.
Remember, traffic problems were not as they are now, and there was no TV to distract baseball fans.
Life was simply lived at a slower pace.