Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[themarc]

Bell demonstration of dial-service 1924

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Any idea what fireball that was?

 

[Goldie]

Location of these Toronto firemen is not identified in the archive's file.

 

[Goldie]

Toronto waterfront 1886 -- featuring previous Union Station

 

[Goldie]

19 Birchview Cres. -- demolished for Bloor St. subway (constructed 1966 to 1980)

 

[W. K. Lis]

Guess we'll now have to add this to "images of lost Toronto", after today.

 

[adma]

19 Birchview Cres. -- demolished for Bloor St. subway (constructed 1966 to 1980)

Likely whatever mid-60s zone when the B-D Islington extension work (that which also took out the nearby High Park Mineral Baths) got into full gear. You can still see from the subway where the southernmost angle of Birchview was nipped (as well as how this was the epitome of 1920s-style cookie-cutter middle-class suburbia--virtually every house looks more or less like this one)

 

[Goldie]

Louisa St., an E-W street once running from Yonge to Chestnut, was demolished for Toronto's New City Hall.
These buildings may be on the actual site of the new Hall.
Photo caption identifies a "Chinese printing office."

 

[Koolgreen]

U think that might be the ford in the back???

 

[Goldie]

I believe the view is to the east (Bay St.) and that building is likely one of the T. Eaton Co. factories.

 

[Goldie]

GOODBYE TO HONEST ED'S
CKEY Broadcasting at Honest Ed's during expansion opening, 1958

 

[Goldie]

A few more early store fronts.
Princess Grocery, King and Princess Streets, Toronto, 1917

Irving Ungerman, poultry proprietor by day, Toronto sports legend by night

Teraulay Street (now Bay Street), ca. 1910 -- City Hall tower in back-ground

Parliament Dry Goods, 343 Parliament Street, Toronto, 1926

Wolfish's General Dry Goods store, 142 Elizabeth St., Toronto, 1913

 

[Goldie]

And some store interiors.

Ben Sherman in his family owned hardware store at Queen and Augusta ca. 1927

Harris Delicatessen, Queen St. W. at Simcoe St., Toronto, [between 1910 and 1914]

Meyer Michalson and daughter Esther in his crockery store, Queen near Parliament, circa 1907

Mirochnick's Drug Store interior, 811 Dundas Street West, Toronto, [1921 or 1922]

 

[lopix]

Here's that hotel c.1960:

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The photo seems to be gone, is there any hope at all of getting it? I am researching the buildings and am having trouble finding any old photos of them.

 

[Goldie]

Iopix, You'll have to tell me when I posted that and to which hotel I was referring.
I'm surprised that any photos have disappeared
Perhaps there's a time limit imposed by UT administration.

 

[LUVIT!]

I love that...when was it destroyed?