LowPolygon
Senior Member
From a slummy neighbourhood to a commercial neighbourhood. Not bad.
Those houses didn't last long in the then pic I bet.
I wouldn't really call it a slum--those buildings are just garden variety late 19th century working class Toronto homes. The Tower Building on NW corner of Adelaide and Spadina was completed in 1927, so they have another 16 years to go, and most of those houses had probably been there 30-40 years already, so not a bad run. there are still lots of remnants of those kinds of properties on Richmond west of Bathurst.