thecharioteer
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Wow, that section of Front went from London to Minnesota way too easily.
Well put! And we can't even use bombing raids as an excuse.
Wow, that section of Front went from London to Minnesota way too easily.
Wow, that section of Front went from London to Minnesota way too easily.
This is wonderful; I clicked on the link. After the map appears for a few seconds, it is replaced by the picture. How do you get it to do that?
Thank you to modernism and urban renewal.
I think that the decline of the area was so gradual, buildings being knocked down one at the time (for parking), buildings falling into disrepair. In a typical Toronto way, there was no vision that preceded the clearance of the area (no Rockefeller Center, no Lincoln Center), just a muddling-along that makes the process even sadder.
In this other view (early 50's?) most of the block is still intact, including the 1863 Bank of Toronto on the NW corner of Church and Wellington, but it looks like parking lots have already begun to replace the Market Square block. The state of the sidewalks gives a hint as to the decline of the neighbourhood.
I'm amazed the Flatiron actually survived all of that.
Looks like it was the only thing that survived :s
Charioteer: I believe that pic today of the Gooderham Flatiron Building is later in the 50s at least-two of the cars in the pic look like 1955 or 1956 Chevrolet's.
There would be more of the larger,rounder cars like those from the late 40s/early 50s in that pic posted yesterday of that insurance building.
I wish more of those archive pics were dated like the one on Mount Pleasant Road Mustapha posted from 1958-on the right is a then-new '57 Chevy a good example of older classic cars. Seeing these pics remind me that half a century or more has passed since some of these pics were taken and the only way of seeing quantities of classic cars in any manner is at a car show. That pic of Jarvis and Bloor Streets in 1960 contains two new Chevy's-1959 and 1960 I believe on the right on the street. That car turning in the left lanes looks to be a mid 50s Buick or Oldsmobile. Again: Yes-it's always good!
Thoughts by LI MIKE