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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

College at University looking east.

Streetview 2009:
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2023:
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Same view 1925:

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1951:

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The transition of the former to the latter should be considered a crime.
More on grounds of the dull barrel-bottom "bureaucratic Moderne" replacement and its fortress-like stance relative to the corner. However, to be fair, the original would almost certainly have been viewed as nothing more than a dated eyesore in the 1930s...
 
Looking at @TwinHuey 's set above.....:

This building: (then)

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Is this building (now)

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Good catch!

Changes since that photo was taken 70 years ago:

Barbara Ann Scott: Was then 25 yrs old. She got married and moved to the USA in 1955. She passed away in 2012.
https://skatecanada.ca/corporate/barbara-ann-scott/

The helicopter: Was one of two Hiller 360's purchased by Kenting Aviation in 1950. Its sister ship crashed in the Yukon in 1952. Likely removed from service in the early 1960's.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-helicopter-restoration-museum-1.5082248

That section of Kingston Rd: Nothing 😁
 
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