Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[steveintoronto]

Best Decorated Float 1926 Ont. Archives

I'm not too sure it would float...especially with all those bricks in it...

 

[Goldie]

Baltimore-Toronto baseball 1921 Ont. Archives

 

[Goldie]

Waterfront at Foot of Yonge St. 1974 CTA

 

[Goldie]

City Hall 1927

 

[adma]

Waterfront at Foot of Yonge St. 1974 CTA
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I know it was under construction; but the Harbour Castle looks like a truck bomb went off in front of it.

Also, what's with the bicolour Beetle? (I'm trying to recall whether such vehicles served a company.)

 

[adma]

City Hall 1927
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Funny how the front of City Hall once served as a kind of incipient Toronto answer to Times Square/Piccadilly. I guess the last vestige of that was the Beneficial Loans sign that looked north on Bay until the late 60s...

 

[Goldie]

And, of course, City Hall was the heart of downtown in those days -- long before we had the glam and glitter of Dundas Square (he said with tongue-in-cheek).

 

[Goldie]

21 TTC streetcars being shipped to Alexandria, Egypt (after opening of Bloor subway) 1966 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Funeral for George Empringham, owner of Hotel at Danforth and Dawes Rd. 1915 TPL

 

[Kenwolf]

Missing section of Floyd Ave in 1960. An entire block of houses bounded by Gowan, Floyd, Logan & Carlaw Avenues demolished in 1958 for new school construction north of the existing Westwood Junior High (aka Hartman Jones Memorial School).

 

[thecharioteer]

Funny how the front of City Hall once served as a kind of incipient Toronto answer to Times Square/Piccadilly. I guess the last vestige of that was the Beneficial Loans sign that looked north on Bay until the late 60s...

Even more so when the east side of the "square" was framed by Eaton's:

 

[Mario1972]

The shot with the diving horse is awesome

Thanks,
Mario
Avangard Photo

 

[Mario1972]

One of my favourites.

WOW. What an awesome composition.

Thanks,
Mario

 

[Goldie]

Bob Rae 1976
Would any politician today allow a photographer to expose his book titles (Lenin, Stalin, Marx)?

 

[Monk]

The first thing I noticed was the Henri Cartier-Bresson poster ... then the books.