Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[thecharioteer]

Regent Theatre, Adelaide St. W, S side, looking W from Yonge St. to Bay St. 1927 TPL
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I believe that's the edge of the Grand Opera House on the left. This entire row of buildings is now the back of Scotia Plaza.

 

[Goldie]

Danforth Avenue, looking E from Broadview Ave. 1937 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Yonge St., E side looking S from Adelaide St. E. to Canadian Pacific Railway Building, S/W corner of King St. E. 1912 TPL

 

[Goldie]

TWO MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURES

City Hall (1844-1899), Front at Jarvis 1868 TPL

St. Lawrence Hall, King at Jarvis 1854 TPL

 

[Goldie]

House, Louisa St., south side, west of Bay St., 1954 ...demolished to make way for New City Hall TPL

 

[adma]

That's pretty stripped-down car advertising for 1954.

 

[LPCI]

IMHO, it’s a precursor to texting...btw, lol, ty

 

[Goldie]

I thought it may have been in reference to the U2 incident over Russia.
But (I looked it up) that didn't happen until 1960.
For those unfamiliar with that cold-war event, look up: "U2 spy plane Russia."

Isn't it interesting how a word or phrase can impact different generations in different ways?
Now that I think about it, U2 probably reminds many, much younger than I, of an Irish rock band.

 

[thecharioteer]

Etchings by Stanley Francis Turner (1883-1953):

 

[thecharioteer]

 

[adma]

I thought it may have been in reference to the U2 incident over Russia.
But (I looked it up) that didn't happen until 1960.
For those unfamiliar with that cold-war event, look up: "U2 spy plane Russia."

Isn't it interesting how a word or phrase can impact different generations in different ways?
Now that I think about it, U2 probably reminds many, much younger than I, of an Irish rock band.

It's probably intended as nothing more than "For You, Too", in telegraphic licence-plate form. Still, it seems fairly "innovative" for billboard advertising in 1954 (and all the more unusual for *not* including an image of the car in question)

 

[Goldie]

The last days for a dead end sign; This Dead End sign was causing some concern to the owners of this cemetery at Winchester and Sumach Sts.; so Toronto works commissioner Ray Bremner agreed today that it would be removed. H. F. Clark; general manager of Toronto General Burying Grounds; owner of the cemetery; said the sign was macabre.

Necropolis Cemetery 1970 TPL

 

[karledice]

TWO MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURES

City Hall (1844-1899), Front at Jarvis 1868 TPLView attachment 273190

St. Lawrence Hall, King at Jarvis 1854 TPL
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Beautiful! Only one of them exist now right?

 

[Goldie]

Beautiful! Only one of them exist now right?

I believe both have been preserved to this day!

 

[DSC]

I believe both have been preserved to this day!

Yes, the City Hall is the centre section of the St Lawrence Market, the Market Gallery is in the old Council Chamber.