Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[christiesplits]

Thanks Junctionist for those pics. A right shame.

 

[adma]

Re the Dundas/Dupont pic: I wonder if the old image was further down the intersection--presuming that Dupont once crossed the tracks at grade; remember that the whole configuration here was reworked and "bypassed" circa the 20s/30s, and the old Dundas alignment followed the present access road to Dupont from the south...

 

[junctionist]

Thanks Junctionist for those pics. A right shame.

I only 'quoted' the photos Mustapha posted. But it is indeed a shame.

 

[Mustapha]

Re the Dundas/Dupont pic: I wonder if the old image was further down the intersection--presuming that Dupont once crossed the tracks at grade; remember that the whole configuration here was reworked and "bypassed" circa the 20s/30s, and the old Dundas alignment followed the present access road to Dupont from the south...

adma,

I don't have a map of this area to rebut you. I took the picture based on what seemed to me to be the original road alignments, and what I assumed to be unchanged parallel train trackage on the east side of this intersection. I've added your comment here under my original post.

If anyone, that includes you adma, can pinpoint with documentable certainty where the 'now' photo should be; I'd be happy to go out and take a new pic.

Heck, if that knowledgable anyone wants to accompany me, there's a pub lunch in it on me.

In any event, I will take another photo 'further down' - north - and post it in the OP in a week or so.

I'll try to get a 19teens era map of this area...

 

[smuncky]

mustapha, i think you'd really be interested in going down to harbourfront and checking out the great big map of toronto from the 1850's complied by ERA architects as part of the exhibit there. some really interesting stuff on that map.

http://www.era.on.ca/news/index.php?news_id=76

 

[Mustapha]

mustapha, i think you'd really be interested in going down to harbourfront and checking out the great big map of toronto from the 1850's complied by ERA architects as part of the exhibit there. some really interesting stuff on that map.

http://www.era.on.ca/news/index.php?news_id=76

This will be interesting and helpful. Thanks for the tip, smuncky!

I dug a little deeper and the Harbourfront Centre people have put part of the map online:

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/visualarts/yqc09_1/ERA plate[7].jpg

 

[Mustapha]

Feb 12 addition

Rogers Road looking W from, shoot, I forgot.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

Looking west from Blackthorn.

 

[Mustapha]

Looking west from Blackthorn.

Thanks Earlscourt Lad. As reward, here's a shovel. You have to go cleanup the snow mess in the bike lane on the SE corner.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

It's mostly gone now

I'm glad to see you made it to my neighbourhood. I think when the weather improves I'll start an "Earlscourt then and now" thread.

 

[Mustapha]

Additions for Feb 13,14,15

It's mostly gone now

I'm glad to see you made it to my neighbourhood. I think when the weather improves I'll start an "Earlscourt then and now" thread.

If you use 'Rogers' as a search term at the Toronto archives site, you'll come up with lots of results for your neighbourhood.






I'm away until Monday so I'll post a couple extra pictures...


Yonge and Shaftesbury, NE corner.

Sherbourne and Isabella, NW corner.

Bloor, south side, looking E from Queens Park Cres.

 

[Conrad Black]

Its funny to think at one point single family homes were located on that strip of Bloor.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

If you look behind and above the storefronts further west, you can see the roofs are typical for Toronto housing stock. The storefronts seem to have been built in front of the houses in quite a few areas.

 

[Tewder]

Notice the wooden poles in the old pictures. Seems they've been around for some time. Maybe it's time to move on?

 

[Edward]

Well they are gone from those two locations but I agree it would be nice if they were gone everywhere.