Conrad Black
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Thanks for the Beth Tzedec info. Fascinating.
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
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Mustapha
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January 5 addition.
Then:
St. Thomas street, looking SSE from just S of Bloor.
Don't know the date; guessing it's the 80s from the car.
Now: October 2009.
Then:
St. Thomas street, looking SSE from just S of Bloor.
Don't know the date; guessing it's the 80s from the car.
Now: October 2009.
androiduk
Senior Member
^ I miss St. Thomas from that time period. There were three restaurants with large patios and Bemelman's was right around the corner. Now, it's relatively dead.
wwwebster
Active Member
thecharioteer said:
Sorry for the late reply; I was offline over the holidays. Unfortunately, I have no special stash of Toronto aerials in my bag of tricks, only London, Ontario:
http://geography.uwo.ca/maplibrary/airphoto/london42/google/google_index_1942.htm
Aladone
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The Walker House Remix
Wow, I haven't logged on to here in awhile! I have been on here for more than an hour catching up. Great posts - bathurst - dupont, rossin house/prince hotel and of course Mustapha's daily Then and nows. Here's another what could have been remix. Enjoy..
The Walker House - What could have been
Wow, I haven't logged on to here in awhile! I have been on here for more than an hour catching up. Great posts - bathurst - dupont, rossin house/prince hotel and of course Mustapha's daily Then and nows. Here's another what could have been remix. Enjoy..
The Walker House - What could have been
Mustapha
Senior Member
When the [Jewish] Primrose club was still around I got to hang a bit there with friends and their parents on occasion. Once in awhile it surprised me that some Jewish folks had very "Anglo" names. I suppose a family ancestor might have changed the name to avoid discrimination?
And note that there is only one sign; not the several that require careful study before parking ones car.
Wow, I haven't logged on to here in awhile! I have been on here for more than an hour catching up. Great posts - bathurst - dupont, rossin house/prince hotel and of course Mustapha's daily Then and nows. Here's another what could have been remix. Enjoy..
The Walker House - What could have been
Alden, very very cool.
With the right management perhaps the old Walker could have worked as a boutique hotel. We'll never know.
Me too. I honeymooned at the Windsor Arms.
January 6 addition.
Then: Looking S on Spadina from Bloor.
Now: October 2009.
Then: Looking E along Bloor from Spadina.
Now: October 2009. And there's a Pizza Pizza... an opportunity to get adma's knickers in a knot.
[Sorry mods, please delete if you feel necessary].
androiduk
Senior Member
^ Kinda curious, those two before pix. The guy in the suit with the clipboard is in both shots and in front of him in both shots is an empty pop bottle.
Good eye. No wonder you take great shots. It is an odd thing isn't it?
Aaron
Active Member
Very odd. Unless there's some sort of reasonable explanation. Was he consuming it?
Random tidbit: I was very close to renting the apartment above Pizza Pizza back in '96, when I worked a night shift down the street at the Shopper's. It was a spacious hole in the wall.
Random tidbit: I was very close to renting the apartment above Pizza Pizza back in '96, when I worked a night shift down the street at the Shopper's. It was a spacious hole in the wall.
androiduk
Senior Member
I wonder if it's an old photography trick and the bottle is used as some kind of reference for the photographer.
Aaron
Active Member
Maybe it's an early, traveling Gnome-type gag.
"Where's my bottle of soda? Bloor and Spadina?!"
"Where's my bottle of soda? Bloor and Spadina?!"
junctionist
Senior Member
It's interesting to see what looks like a newspaper and magazine kiosk in the before photo "Then: Looking S on Spadina from Bloor." They're still around in many European cities selling magazines, cigarettes and other such basics, but no longer in Toronto.
adma
Superstar
Interesting in shot #2: Britannica House (151 Bloor) already existed.
Interesting in shot #1: that news/refreshment(?) kiosk on the left--very European...
Interesting in shot #1: that news/refreshment(?) kiosk on the left--very European...
Mustapha
Senior Member
The kiosk was run by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind - CNIB. In my youth, one could occasionally find blind people - men - war veterans perhaps? - working in tuck shops in government buildings and on military bases.
January 7 addition.
Then: Yonge street looking S from Yorkminster Park church. Heath street in the distance. Marquees for the Hollywood and Hyland theatres dimly in the distance.
Now: October 2009. I should have stood in the middle of the street for this but for the traffic.
NomoreaTorontonian
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Was that pop bottle showing in any of those photos of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Spadina & Bloor) a few weeks ago? I wonder if the whole collection was taken about 1961-62 when the Bloor subway was still at the blueprint stage?
(I was working at an office on that corner way back then.)
(I was working at an office on that corner way back then.)