Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

Hanlan's Point

The mention of a "racetrack & hotel" at Hanlan's Point reminded me of the baseball stadium once located there. That was before the Maple Leaf Stadium was built on the mainland.
Rumour has it that Babe Ruth hit his first home run at the Hanlan's Point Park - into the Lake where it may still remain!

 

[LowPolygon]

University Remix 2

very high quality work! lighting is perfect...
anyway, a real heartbreaker. could have been an amazing convention center...

 

[Long Island Mike]

More interesting Toronto Then and Now pics...

Charioteer: Those Toronto Islands maps are quite interesting!

Aladone: A really neat photoshop mix combining old and new-I like the castle like front of that old armory...

Mustapha: That Gerrard/Broadview pic from 10/1960 contains the back of a Cadillac-I recognize the logo and tailfins-and the front of a Mercury or Ford product. I sometimes surprise myself recognizing those old autos...

LI MIKE

 

[Stumack]

The Cadillac in the 1960 photo is a '58, the two-tone car is a Ford Taunus 17M - German made. Very unusual - they were sold in very limited quantities in the US for a few years ('58-'60 or so), but I didn't know they were available in Canada.

 

[Mustapha]

The Cadillac in the 1960 photo is a '58, the two-tone car is a Ford Taunus 17M - German made. Very unusual - they were sold in very limited quantities in the US for a few years ('58-'60 or so), but I didn't know they were available in Canada.

Welcome Stumack. Taunus - This is so long ago and before my time it doesn't register with me. Ford has always tantalized consumers with German sourced cars like the Capri, Merkur and the [not German ] Yamaha engined SHO Taurus of 1992. Didn't know they were doing so waa-ay back.

 

[syn]

University Remix 2

Great work! It would be amazing to see other shots like this.

 

[Dilla]

Great work! It would be amazing to see other shots like this.

Amazing and depressing all at once.

 

[Edward]

Well we got the Moss Park Armoury in exchange for this

 

[Mustapha]

Amazing and depressing all at once.

I felt the same way; first the amazing picture then the sense of something beautiful lost. I think that Aladone's 'remix' picture having both the old and the new in colour did it.

Well we got the Moss Park Armoury in exchange for this

And they recently out up a fence around the grounds; what's up with that?


October 29 addition.


Then: Queen and River, looking W along Queen. Nothing new here, but they straightened out the tracks.

Now: October 2009.

 

[wwwebster]

Nothing to do with Toronto, but I thought some here might appreciate this:

http://www.6juin1944.com/album/thennow/index.php

Patrick Elie has compiled "Now" shots to go with images taken after the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

 

[Blovertis]

Re Queen and River

Astonishing that the lot behind the bank building has been vacant all these decades.

 

[Dilla]

Re Queen and River

Astonishing that the lot behind the bank building has been vacant all these decades.

If my memory serves me correctly, it's not vacant. There are two yellow brick row houses angled facing toward the north west, back from the street far enough that they're not visible from this angle. There are some parking spaces in front.

 

[kitestate]

Dilla, you are correct. it's one building set back 10m from the street-i think it had an basic/minor industrial use ..now a loft/live/work space. i had a peak at it 6 yrs ago with a view to buy (approx. 1000 sq ft of open loft)@ $300k. nice place inside

 

[Anna]

I think these pictures from Slickrick earlier in the thread were taken from that building (the 'now' from the fire escape)

hey UT world,

 

[Asterix]

Dilla, you are correct. it's one building set back 10m from the street

The 'vacant' lot:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...Q84oBRAD3uVxhzpnKJpYaw&cbp=12,172.54,,0,-2.97

Was it ever oriented in parallel with a street or was it always offset on that angle?