Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[adma]

Best argument against tagging there is.

 

[Mustapha]

And what else? The flashback to the gas-stations-on-practically-every-other-block era (including one with the "transitional" pre-Gulf BA logo of 1967-69); *two* old-school streetfront Loblaw groceterias (including the one with the Chug-A-Mug billboard on top)...wow. As a slide show, those vintage photos need a musical soundtrack like this, or something

Forgotten about her. Gone too soon. Weird to listen to long gone singers voices... they wash over you... Karen Carpenter had a great voice too. I have to close my eyes to listen to Karen.

 

[Blovertis]

Ah... the beauty of neglect.

 

[Mustapha]

Jan 30 addition

And, related to subject building in the Jan 29 photo; its immediate neighbour to the south.

They added a 3rd floor at some point.

Dearborn Chemical Company is no longer; subsumed into a division of the General Electric company.



http://www.gewater.com/index.jsp

 

[Mustapha]

Quoting myself here; a bit odd, I know. I've added a picture.

Adelaide Street, looking W, from a point about 50 yards W of Yonge Street.

Here is a earlier picture of this location to add some interest to this post of a few days ago.

 

[Urban Shocker]

... and here's the Grand Opera House, to the east:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Grand_Opera_House_in_1913_and_nearby_building.jpg

 

[Mustapha]

Jan 31 addition

... and here's the Grand Opera House, to the east:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Grand_Opera_House_in_1913_and_nearby_building.jpg

It would be even more 'Grand' if it were still around.



Jan 31 addition:

Yonge from just N of Davisville, looking N.

The TD bank building is still there. The young thing with the shoulder length hair, summer hat and shoulder slung bag makes the picture seem less antique, although that day and her life are long vanished. My imagination is triggered and I follow her onto the car to begin a journey.

 

[khris]

What are those two towers in the new photo?

 

[smuncky]

that's minto. it's the yonge/eglinton intersection.

 

[adma]

Re the enigmatic Dearborn: (1) it's interesting at an attempt at a Prairie-esque "minimal" industrial-honesty statement, and (b) its most recent tenant was Chairtex--and if one looks in the windows above, it seems that a lot of Chairtex's wares are still housed within, so there may be some fascinating untapped industrial archaeology here...

 

[Mustapha]

Feb 1 addition

Believe it or not, it still stood, abandoned and mouldering, in the late 70s--I presume it bit the dust in preparation for the Loblaw-ization of the York Mills auto dealership site.

Here's a close up.

 

[Mustapha]

Feb 2 addition

Similar to Dupont, which was Royce, Van Horne, and Dupont, all joined through various jogs. In fact, at Ossington, you can see the outline of a former house on the end wall of another, that was demolished for curving the jog.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

That's the one!

This is possibly the best thread on UT.

 

[Conrad Black]

Neat.

 

[Mustapha]

That's the one!

This is possibly the best thread on UT.

Neat.

You're welcome.

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