Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[junctionist]

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It was such a shortsighted and regrettable loss. The Registry Building could have been reused as a building to make Nathan Phillips Square more vibrant. For instance, it could have been reused as an art gallery, market building, hotel, public library, or a combination of a bar, restaurant and office space. The square would be more attractive and vibrant if the building had been reused.

For all the people who said that something so modern as City Hall couldn't stand next to a building of its vintage, it's ironic that Viljo Revell added a touch of the classical to City Hall's podium in the seemingly classicly-inspired row of columns and loggia at the base of the podium.

 

[Goldie]

Motor-polo Matches at the CNE Grandstand 1923 TPL.

 

[Goldie]

Foot of Yonge St. 1910 TPL

 

[Goldie]

BEFORE GOD CREATED WOMEN

 

[Goldie]

AFTER GOD CREATED WOMEN

PICNIC HELD BY RANI GHAR; .... Toronto Grotto had nearly 7,000 guests at Exhibition Park 1924 TPL

 

[W. K. Lis]

AFTER GOD CREATED WOMEN

PICNIC HELD BY RANI GHAR; .... Toronto Grotto had nearly 7,000 guests at Exhibition Park 1924 TPL
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WHAT!! No stilettos? Shocking!

 

[Goldie]

An Amazing Year For Oshawa
New cars for shipment at GM plant 1981 TPL

 

[Lone Primate]

SS Noronic, your berth is waiting.

Don't you mean... your DEATH...? ???

 

[Lone Primate]

The "celphone" before its time..........
Collins Wireless Telephone Exhibit at CNE 1909 TPL
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World record for long distance phone call, 1909... 7'6", the guy in the straw hat to the guy in the bowler hat. WHAT MAN THAT WROUGHT!!

 

[Lone Primate]

If you care the 2019 elfast parade is at

Even in Belfast the parades are smaller than they once were - in the 1950s they used to take over 3 hours to pass going to The Field and longer when they returned - primarily due to the 'refreshments' consumed there!

What's in the coffin they're carrying? The corpse of bigotry? I've seen video of the Orange Day "parade" in Toronto. It takes up ONE side of Queen Street and runs about ten minutes. We've come a long way from the days when you had to be in the Lodge to be Mayor of Toronto or Premier of Ontario. Meanwhile, St. Paddy's Day Parade just gets bigger and bigger, funner and funner, and more and more inclusive. "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children." -Bobby Sands

 

[Koolgreen]

An Amazing Year For Oshawa
New cars for shipment at GM plant 1981 TPL
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was it really? or were those cars with no owners....I graduated that year and there was not a job to be found....Back to school I went with a much better outlook in 1983....

 

[Goldie]

Post Office, Front St., S-W corner Bay St. (attached to Union Station) 1924 TPL
A queue of business people calling for important letters which are held up by a strike of postal employees.

 

[Lone Primate]

Post Office, Front St., S-W corner Bay St. (attached to Union Station) 1924 TPL
A queue of business people calling for important letters which are held up by a strike of postal employees.
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FRONT STREET GOES WILD AS RAPTORS WIN FIRST NBA CHAMPIONSHIP, 1924!
Man arrested for yelling "yay!" too loud

 

[Goldie]

Hats at the CNE, 1922 TPL

 

[Goldie]

"Waiting for the story hour." .............Public Library; Central Branch, College St., N-W corner St. George St. 1921 TPL