Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[Goldie]

Early "Beaches" amusement areas.

 

[Koolgreen]

amazing that that track is banked.....wonder what raced there???

 

[Rusty]

amazing that that track is banked.....wonder what raced there???

Bicycles?

 

[Goldie]

According to The Beach in Pictures by Campbell & Myrvold, "baseball, football and lacrosse teams played there.
Also bicycle and foot races. A wood velodrome was constructed."

 

[Goldie]

Queen's_Own_Rifles_at_Toronto_Armories 1901

 

[Goldie]

Launching_of_the_Toronto

More info at: http://torontoist.com/2014/05/historicist-taking-the-plunge/

 

[Goldie]

Rolph-Clark-Stone Picnic 1930

An interesting history of the Rolph-Clark-Stone company will be found here:
https://leslievillehistory.com/2016/10/22/rolph-clark-stone-ltd-201-carlaw/

 

[Goldie]

Moulton College 1935

 

[Goldie]

Ed, we'll never forget you!

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Ed, we'll never forget you!"
Prof Goldie.

With all due respect to you, Goldie, I would really like to forget not only him, but also his son.

Regards,
J T

 

[Logan]

Back when Toronto had palm trees!

Toronto by University of Wollongong Archives, on Flickr

Toronto by University of Wollongong Archives, on Flickr

 

[Edward Skira]

University of Wollongong. I was born in Wollongong!

 

[Goldie]

The 'seedy' businesses of 1963, along the south side of Queen St. W., immediately opposite the beginnings of Nathan Phillips Square.
Photo by Harold Whyte - Toronto Public Library archives

 

[Goldie]

Doors of the old Toronto Stock Exchange at 234 Bay St. (abandoned by TSE in 1983 for new digs at King and York).

 

[adma]

When Charles Comfort died, I joked about his pallbearers taking that position ;-)