Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Playter's Society Hall, 1912 - S/E corner Danforth-Broadview
The building is still there.

 

[r937]

The building is still there.

i wonder what shape the 3rd floor is in today...

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0000694F&R=DC-TSPA_0000694F

full size image: 1920x1327 via TPL


see also: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...graphs-then-and-now.6947/page-800#post-905931

 

[Goldie]

Thanks Rudy........I was not aware of that fire.
I've attempted to increase legibility of sign near top.
Does it read "Playter Society Hall [or Building]" ?

 

[steveintoronto]

i wonder what shape the 3rd floor is in today...

Things are a lot lighter up there now, levitating in fact, and there's a fourth floor, so any damage must have been remediated: (I'm only writing half in jest, usual procedure if structural damage is minimal is to de-rate the floor loading capacity)

 

[adma]

Too bad it was demolished.

Not that its replacement's unworthy.

 

[DSC]

i wonder what shape the 3rd floor is in today...

Wonder no more!

 

[Goldie]

The Molsons Bank 1897 - originally William Cawthra house - Bay-King N-E corner TPL

 

[Goldie]

This LIFE Magazine image of Ste. Rose, Quebec is illustrative of the same record-breaking snow fall that inundated Toronto in March, 1947.

 

[Goldie]

From the top of the Temple Building, 1913. I think the tall building in the distance is the CPR Building at King and Yonge.View attachment 131767

I'm continually struck by the mysterious nature of this photo.
Who was he and why was he at the top of the Temple Building?

 

[nostalgic]

I'm continually struck by the mysterious nature of this photo.
Who was he and why was he at the top of the Temple Building?

I can answer that question. The mysterious man is my paternal grandfather, C.J.B. (Charles John Benedictus) Howard, an Ontario Land Surveyor with an interest in engineering and construction (based on what he photographed and sketched after arriving in Canada from Germany in 1906). He might have been interested in the Temple Building as Toronto’s first skyscraper.

 

[Goldie]

Flatiron Bldg., 1898

 

[Goldie]

City of Toronto announces The First Parliament Project:

https://www.toronto.ca/services-pay...ing-city-facilities/first-parliament-project/

 

[Goldie]

Evocative and Lost, indeed!

 

[Goldie]

Yonge at Queen 1920

 

[lenaitch]

That looks it was a busy intersection, but I don't see any traffic control. Were they free-for-alls during a more civilized time?