Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Y.W.C.A. boarding house 698 Ontario St. ...c.1915 ...LAC

 

[Goldie]

American politician Wendell Wilkie (Republican-lost election to FDR) in Toronto - April 1941 - LAC

 

[Rusty]

Uhhh. What does LAC mean?

 

[DSC]

Uhhh. What does LAC mean?

Library and Archives Canada

 

[Goldie]

Temperance Street 1902

 

[r937]

interesting shot... sign says Road Race, so "ELIBOMOTUA" is a reflection
(people with cellphones often post pictures that are reversed, and i cannot understand why)

p.s. if cars were still like that — exposed, fragile, what, 20mph tops? — instead of the tank-like SUVs we have today, then #VisionZero would be less of a concern, eh (apologies for off-topic rant by VRU (vulnerable road user i.e. cyclist, pedestrian)

 

[DSC]

A week or so ago Goldie posted a photo that showed the former Great Western Station (Yonge & The Esplanade) on the Then and Now thread. Here are three of it from TPL collection

Two from 1867

and one from 1951 - not long before it burnt down

 

[Goldie]

Thanks for those images, DSC.
I particularly like this 1880 photo showing a classic engine.
Much like that wonderful sketch you included.

 

[Goldie]

Somewhere in Canada 1941
Billy Bishop and James Cagney on -Captains of the Clouds- film set .....LAC

Actors Russell Arms-in cockpit- and James Cagney rehearse in a Fairey Battle aircraft ....1941 ....LAC

 

[r937]

 

[Goldie]

First feature length Hollywood production filmed entirely in Canada.
Billy Bishop played himself in the film.
See wikipedia for complete details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captains_of_the_Clouds

 

[Goldie]

A British Airship, the R100, visited Toronto in 1930.
It's uncertain how many of the press photos of the day were faked.

 

[steveintoronto]

It's uncertain how many of the press photos of the day were faked.

lol! I wondered about your claim until staring at the second and third pics. UFOs have invaded! It's likely the case in at least some of the pics that the actual event was taking place, but the image has been manipulated to bring both viewers and the object into the same frame, and in doing so, the perspective alters radically.

 

[Goldie]

Another scene outside of Toronto:
At the Second Quebec City Conference -1944
"Behind every great man there's a -----"

 

[steveintoronto]

^ As well as superlative detail, contrast and lighting, it's difficult to believe the world is at war with pics like this.