Mustapha
Senior Member
That large TTC sign is located in a awfully strange location isn't it?
March 30 addition.
375 Yonge
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Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now
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That large TTC sign is located in a awfully strange location isn't it?
March 30 addition.
375 Yonge
Aaron
Active Member
At least that location is consistent.
adma
Superstar
Yeah, the ultimate "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" demonstration, that.
Back to the SE Yonge/King subway entrance: was it from the building, originally? If it changed, it was probably when the National Trust building was built on its site c1960, which left more wiggle-room for a sidewalk entrance...
Back to the SE Yonge/King subway entrance: was it from the building, originally? If it changed, it was probably when the National Trust building was built on its site c1960, which left more wiggle-room for a sidewalk entrance...
Mustapha
Senior Member
I'll comb thru some of the Toronto archive's TTC construction pics some time and see.
[UPDATE March 30 5:45pm: Couldn't find anything..]
On a related note: There is a pair of gray painted steel doors on the Queen subway southbound platform, opening into a equipment closet I suppose. At one time - pre-Eaton Centre - these were glass doors and you could take the escalator from the subway platform up to the old Eaton store's basement food department.
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Swamp Thing
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Was the original mooring mast never built? Or had it been torn down sometime prior to constructing the beacon in 1951?
Mustapha
Senior Member
Swamp Thing,
I looked online for info about this. All I found was this hoax/humour article.
http://torontoist.com/2007/05/touch_up_toront.php
Perhaps others here might chime in..
March 31 addition.
511 Yonge Street
Anth
Active Member
Earlscourt_Lad
Active Member
There was also a chain in Toronto called "Roastateria" featuring roasted chicken, IIRC.
Mustapha
Senior Member
A good thing no one is clamouring for a retro grocery store experience.
Paper bags with no handles that split open when wet. Items too high to reach - you had to seek out a clerk with:http://www.bikudo.com/product_search/details/43481/long_arm_grippers.html
April 1 addition.
Yonge at Charles, looking N.
androiduk
Senior Member
A good thing no one is clamouring for a retro grocery store experience.
http://www.bikudo.com/product_search/details/43481/long_arm_grippers.html
April 1 addition.
Yonge at Charles, looking N.
Nice shooting Mustapha, I didn't have to do too much stretching on this one.
Kitsune
Senior Member
It clearly looks to me as if the TTC Entrance was in the Scotts Building - you can even see the railing going down a set of stairs in the photo. And also, the TTC Sign is actually attached to the building by the looks of it. When was the current building built? I thought I saw a cornerstone saying 1996 but I cant rememeber if thats right.
adma
Superstar
It's a 90s condo-ization PoMo reskinning of an early 60s modernist office building.
Mustapha
Senior Member
Nice shooting Mustapha, I didn't have to do too much stretching on this one.
This one looks 'ghostly'; the treatment you did of the Lux theatre didn't have people in it. This one has the kid on the bike and the men in road. Makes 'ya think of the people who were here before us in these places.
April 2 addition.
Every UTer has been here for karaoke.. right?
I can't go. Would never pass for an Orangeman; trust me on this.
smuncky
Senior Member
either you're getting ahead of yourself or you're half way across the world posting from, lets say, india.
Blovertis
Active Member
Re Ulster Arms:
Nice to see that it was just as ugly back then as it is now.
Nice to see that it was just as ugly back then as it is now.