Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Koolgreen]

The Leland buses escape my memory. Tnx

kinda reminiscent of the electric trolley buses that ran along bay street.......Barely remember them in the seventies.....

 

[lenaitch]

kinda reminiscent of the electric trolley buses that ran along bay street.......Barely remember them in the seventies.....

Those I remember, actually most of the trolley lines.

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Island residents 1980 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Malton Airport 54 years ago.....Ont. Archives

 

[Goldie]

Umbrella-like Don Mills Curling Rink 1960 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Swimming in the Don River at "Bare Ass Beach" - Riverdale - 1923 TPL

 

[DSC]

Where exactly is this? And why are there no bare asses?

 

[Goldie]

Another view of the Don River, 25 years later and still no view of bare asses!
I suspect that swimming-hole may have been near the yet-to-come Viaduct.

The Don River looking N. from Queen St. to Bloor St. 1948 TPL

 

[Anna]

Bare asses (with viaduct in background)

 

[Goldie]

More "skin" in the Don Valley.
Cycling beside Don River, between Don Mills Rd. and Leaside c.1912 CTA

 

[44 North]

Where exactly is this? And why are there no bare asses?

Was curious too. Part of me thinks that island they're standing on is where Yellow Creek met the Don. And it's looking west up the hill toward (possibly no longer existing) houses along Castle Frank Rd. This before Bayview and the long onramp. Or it's the opposite. Looking east in roughly a similar location, toward a block of homes that no longer exists pre-DVP and highrises. I think it's the second one.

 

[W. K. Lis]

When I took swimming lessons at Fern Avenue Public School (indoor pool) in the late 1950's early 1960's, it was nude swimming for the boys. Sorry, no photos.

 

[Goldie]

Once, located in rural countryside.
BA Oil refinery, Clarkson 1948 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Lennox's Hotel 64 Queen St. W. 1885 TPL
Today, it's the site of the "Old" City Hall.

 

[Goldie]

The Provincial Lunatic Asylum at 999 Queen St. W., opened in 1850

Demolition in 1976 - spiral staircase removal from dome TPL