Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[mattelderca]

A few blocks north again and you have another lost theatre, the Donlands.
Google streetview link,

 

[Goldie]

Movie memories

Any mention of the Donlands Cinema certainly brings back fond memories.
- see attached history photos

 

[Cast_Member]

Any mention of the Donlands Cinema certainly brings back fond memories.
- see attached history photos

You were actually an usher there?

 

[Mustapha]

Great thread I must say.

Thanks CityPlaceN1, we just like to keep things churning here.

 

[Goldie]

You were actually an usher there?

That's right!
The photos show the staff at a Xmas party.
A clue -- I took one photo and I'm in the other.
No prize for the answer.

 

[Mustapha]

A few blocks north again and you have another lost theatre, the Donlands.
Google streetview link,

I pass this place often and regret that I never took in a show there. Goldie's nightime picture of the Donlands lit up with lights... what a jewel of a place and a loss to that neighbourhood. In my own neighbourhood, we had the Park, the Fairlawn, the Glendale and further south, the Capitol, now all gone. I go downtown to watch a show now.

 

[Mustapha]

That's right!
The photos show the staff at a Xmas party.
A clue -- I took one photo and I'm in the other.
No prize for the answer.

You're bottom row, third from the right.

 

[Mustapha]

Mustapha, here's the scene on Donlands just a block above your mentioned, Donlands & Mortimer.
I hope this post will work. Let's try!
I think I can still post images here, but I can NO LONGER VIEW any of these pages - since the "redisign" went into effect.
I'm aware of the posts only by e-mail notice - and the 'posting' software apparently still works.

Neat that the bungalow is still there. It's seen a few changes for sure.

Goldie, try changing or upgrading your browser.

 

[Goldie]

The mystery usher

You're bottom row, third from the right.

Sorry, incorrect! I think I'll keep the secret.

By the way, here's how I now see these pages (attached screen capture)
Very, very hard to decipher, but I'll keep trying.

 

[Mustapha]

Daily Miscellaneous Then and Now for Tuesday May 17, 2011:





Then. "June 15, 1923. Davenport station and yard."

The street in front of us at this level crossing is Davenport Road. The rail line in front of us is the CN line that heads north to King City, Aurora and Barrie. It was originally built in 1853 as the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron railway. If I backtracked south on this rail line, it would go over Queen street west at Queen and Dufferin and head into Union Station.

In the distance is Davenport Station. 1857 to 1934-ish. I'll "walk" you up a little closer to the station in tommorrow's addition and tell you a little more about it.

Now. April 2011. Davenport now passes underneath us.

 

[Anna]

Sorry, incorrect! I think I'll keep the secret.

By the way, here's how I now see these pages (attached screen capture)
Very, very hard to decipher, but I'll keep trying.

Bottom photo - back row, far left?

 

[Goldie]

Bottom photo - back row, far left?

I give in, Anna. You're right!
That handsome, well-dressed, young usher must have been about 16 at the time!

 

[Goldie]

From another East York neighbourhood:

 

[mattelderca]

Sometimes I miss my East York bungalow on Davies Cres. Alas, many are now getting second stories. Goldie, you must remember the when those houses at the south east end of the Leaside bridge had their yards "extended" with a sanitary landfill?

 

[Goldie]

East York (Leaside) Bridge

Goldie, you must remember the when those houses at the south east end of the Leaside bridge had their yards "extended" with a sanitary landfill?

Don't know much about the "landfill" but when that bridge was completed in 1927 (much before my time!) a land-development Co. produced this booklet to sell lots in an area named "Uptown Park."
The map is very interesting (attached images).