Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Yes, my reaction too.
I'm a great fan of Cartier-Bresson's work.
Coincidentally, he was also a socialist.

 

[steveintoronto]

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.)

Wasn't it a photo developing and finishing company? Abel, Black's or the like?

 

[Goldie]

CNE 1906

CNE 1907

 

[Goldie]

Bloor Street Viaduct c.1920 CTA.

 

[jaborandi]

Those poles for the streetcar wires are so much handsomer than the utilitarian poles we are stuck with today.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Those poles for the streetcar wires are so much handsomer than the utilitarian poles we are stuck with today.

Same with the street name signs.

From link.

From link.

This is what happens when the penny-pinchers end up on city council. They keep looking for something cheaper and cheaper and cheaper.

 

[adma]

Though I like those better than the bowdlerized version of the acorn signs

 

[thecharioteer]

From the Toronto Star Archives 1966 (Boris Spremo): A vision of what would be built on the south side of Queen between Bay and York:

"South Side of Queen opposite new City Hall as it will be if present tentative agreement is confirmed: 1. 40-foot-high bank building at Bay and Queen Sts; 2. An office building of 29 to 31 storeys at Bay and Richmond. 3. Next to the bank another office of 21 to 23 floors. 4. An arcade no more than 10 storeys tall containing night-clubs restaurants and shops. 5. 35-storey convention hotel."

 

[Goldie]

Edison Hotel, S-E corner Yonge-Gould 1950

Yonge St. E. side - Gould to Dundas --before "Dunbas Square" c.1992

Yonge St. .....S. from Gould ... c.1975

 

[Goldie]

The unusual will of Charles Vance Millar, Toronto lawyer.
Photo (1936) and caption from Toronto Public Library archives.

New entrant in Millar will race West Indian native. Claiming to have nine children born and registered in the 10-year period in the Millar will race; John William Carter; 50-year-old West Indian; father of the first negro family to enter the stork derby; is shown here with his wife and family. If he wins the $750;000; he says; he will divide it evenly among all the mothers who have had more than six children in Toronto in the past 10 years.

For more see: https://torontoist.com/2016/10/historicist-the-stork-derby/

 

[Goldie]

Ward's Island, 1911

 

[Goldie]

Royal Canadian Yacht Club-Toronto Island c.1930

Count the hats and win a prize!

 

[adma]

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]

O'Keefe Brewery - Gould St., S-W corner Victoria St., c.1890s TPL

 

[lenaitch]

The Leland buses escape my memory. Tnx