Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[adma]

the gas stations disappeared (esso and BP),

BA, not BP.
http://www.britishamericanoil.ca/

Love this photo of the fuel truck headed for the station

You can date the photos by the fact that BA "modernized" its logo in 1967, before being rebranded Gulf in 1969.

 

[smuncky]

BA, not BP.
http://www.britishamericanoil.ca/

this is the BP i was talking about.

but thanks for mentioning BA as i didn't know what it was and was curious to find out actually.

 

[Mustapha]

Jan 13 addition

From:
http://www.lostrivers.ca/MoorePkRavR.htm

"Proceed down the steep path into the Moore Park Ravine. As the path begins to level out, note a wider part of level ground on the west side of the trail. This is the site of the former Moore Park Station on the Beltline."

I was here last summer but the leaves on shrubs and trees presented an imprenetrable barrier.

 

[Blovertis]

I've seen that "then" picture before. Very hard to believe now there was once a substantial station on that trail.

From the condition of the platform, it looks like that photo was taken well after the Belt Line went bust.

 

[smuncky]

From the condition of the platform, it looks like that photo was taken well after the Belt Line went bust.

add in the plants overgrowning on the tracks and that fence at the end of the platform.

 

[Mustapha]

add in the plants overgrowning on the tracks and that fence at the end of the platform.

That fence. It's almost like someone was living there, and didn't want people riding a horse through their yard. The old railbed was already a walking path - as you can see by the trodden dirt path.

 

[Edward Skira]

What's with the rocking chairs on the platform?

 

[Mustapha]

What's with the rocking chairs on the platform?

I'm guessing someone lived there. A domesticated chicken(see it?) is evidence of this. A squatter?

 

[adma]

One other thing from that Yonge series that's astonishing to consider from a present-day perspective: that there was an actual *funeral home* on the NE-corner-of-Eglinton blockfront

 

[Mustapha]

One other thing from that Yonge series that's astonishing to consider from a present-day perspective: that there was an actual *funeral home* on the NE-corner-of-Eglinton blockfront

After the funeral home decamped; it was a Steak n Burger restaurant for a time.

 

[Mustapha]

Jan 14 addition

Bay south from Dundas

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Bay Street looked better back then. Or at least the east side.

 

[Mustapha]

Bay Street looked better back then. Or at least the east side.

That's Alice Street on the east side - you can just see it there - it was closed and built over by Eaton factories and then in turn by the Eaton Centre. A search in the Toronto online archives for Alice reveals some row houses and a charming school. This whole area bound by Albert, Bay, Dundas and Yonge had had a gritty industrial grimness to it, especially at night.

 

[Edward Skira]

What's that thing just to the left of the Old City Hall clock tower?

 

[Mustapha]

What's that thing just to the left of the Old City Hall clock tower?

UFO, some kinda`artifact' on the pic? Dunno. Looks weird for sure.