Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Richard White]

Been a while since I was on Yonge Street, how is it lit now?

With Streetlights from overhead poles.

 

[DSC]

With Streetlights from overhead poles.

As shown on Streetview:

 

[deerparker]

Other than at intersections, there are still large sections of Yonge between the Downtown-Yonge and Bloor-Yorkville BIAs that don’t have street lamps.

 

[adma]

Yeah, they're BIA-style "designer streetlights" these days. Full circle back from when streetlights were paired with telephone poles and the like as "urban eyesores" (which motivated the facade-mounted arrangement on post-subway Yonge)

 

[thecharioteer]

SE Corner of King & Spadina

1919:

1972:

2022:

2020 Proposal:

 

[thecharioteer]

University & Richmond looking SW:

1956 (from TPL):

1972:

2022:

 

[thecharioteer]

Spadina looking north at Wellington

January 20, 1931. Caption on Archives site: "Clarence Square, Communist meeting, police dispersing crowds"

2022:

 

[flonicky]

2009:

2022:

2009:

2022:

 

[Richard White]

2009:
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2022:
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2009:
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2022:
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I actually had the chance to be the Condominium Site Administrator for this property. I turned it down and became the manager of a Condominium in High Park.

Best thing I ever did.

 

[Tim MacDonald]

I posted this in the Mcity thread but I will cross post here as well:

1973

This morning:

Edited to add the correct photo. Original post photo was a full stop under exposed.

 

[thecharioteer]

Waterworks Building 505 Richmond Street West

2015:

2022:

 

[thecharioteer]

St. Andrew's Playground

1970's (?)

2022:

 

[Northern Light]

From the Facebook Group Transit Timewarp, we have the below, credit embedded:

 

[innsertnamehere]

2009:
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2022:
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2009:
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2022:
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oddest thing of these is seeing the freight train running through downtown. That basically never happens now.

 

[flonicky]

Oct 2011:

Oct 2022: