Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[brewster]

YONGE AND CARLETON LOOKING EAST--1970

 

[adma]

YONGE AND CARLETON LOOKING EAST--1970

Good thing about that is that it shows both the HYDRO and the ODEON signs--a melodramatic successive vertical-neon-lettering spectacle (emphasized by the Carlton skew) viewed from the west some 40 odd years ago...

 

[Goldie]

There is a whole group of these. A friend of mine , Leonard Poole , went for a walk up and down Yonge in 1970 just to use up a couple of rolls of B/W. I am a big fan of every picture done before 1975.

I'm betting your friend, Leonard Poole, made these photographs with a 2 1/4 square format camera on 120 size film.
Would it have been a Rolleiflex or Rolleicord?
Do you know if my guess is valid?

 

[Mustapha]

I've gained a new appreciation of St. Patricks Market from thecharioteers maps.

 

[Mustapha]

Sleepy Hollow, according to the map in Boulton's Atlas of 1858, was on College Street west of University. To pinpoint--Murray Street stopped at Taddle Creek. Sleepy Hollow was in a line with Murray Street. Coming forward, is that the old Board of Education building?

That would be 149 College street: the Stewart Building/Athletic Club/Police headquarters/Ontario College of Art and Design and presently, U of T's Rotman School.

 

[Mustapha]

I'm betting your friend, Leonard Poole, made these photographs with a 2 1/4 square format camera on 120 size film.
Would it have been a Rolleiflex or Rolleicord?
Do you know if my guess is valid?

It does seem to be done from waist level doesn't it? Great street photography.

 

[Mustapha]

Aug 24 Then and Now.




Then. College and Manning. SE corner. c1918. Another wwwebster sourced picture.

Now. June 2011.

 

[thecharioteer]

That would be 149 College street: the Stewart Building/Athletic Club/Police headquarters/Ontario College of Art and Design and presently, U of T's Rotman School.

From: http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/TorontoAthleticClub.htm:

Architect E. J. Lennox built 149 College Street for the Toronto Athletic Club in 1894. It was equipped with Toronto's first indoor swimming pool........Robinson was said to Toronto’s best boxer in his day. He started the Toronto Athletic Club in 1891 and served as its president until 1895. He was appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in 1880. In 1887 he retired to his Toronto home on College Street, near University Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, which, fittingly, overlooked the city’s cricket grounds. It was on the site of this building.

Sleepy Hollow (from: http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/zr2biogr.htm)

Also:

http://www.archive.org/stream/landm...n657/mode/2up/search/robinson+richmond+street

A drawing of Beverley House:

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

I wonder if they reused the stone when they moved the door from the Dufferin side to the St. Clair side? It looks very similar.

Wwwebster, is there an article attached to the picture?

 

[wwwebster]

Wwwebster, is there an article attached to the picture?

The article is in the April 1918 issue of Construction. Starts here:

http://www.archive.org/stream/constructionjour11macduoft#page/104/mode/2up

The picture of the Earlscourt branch, with floor plan, is here:

http://www.archive.org/stream/constructionjour11macduoft#page/118/mode/2up

…and the single paragraph describing it is here:

http://www.archive.org/stream/constructionjour11macduoft#page/120/mode/2up

 

[thecharioteer]

Two more pics of Beverley House (sans verandah) from Toronto No Mean City:

 

[brewster]

It does seem to be done from waist level doesn't it? Great street photography.

I have been in touch with Leonard , Goldie and Mustapha , I will get back to you with the details. Would this be the right thread to upload all 54 photos? Definitely worth a look.

 

[Goldie]

I have been in touch with Leonard , Goldie and Mustapha , I will get back to you with the details. Would this be the right thread to upload all 54 photos? Definitely worth a look.

Many of us love to see 'street photography.'
Perhaps we will use some of the images for more 'Then & Now'.
Why not open a new string? Call it "Street Photography 1970s"

 

[Mustapha]

Many of us love to see 'street photography.'
Perhaps we will use some of the images for more 'Then & Now'.
Why not open a new string? Call it "Street Photography 1970s"

I agree with Goldie; Leonards pictures - on their own - should be in their own thread.

If combined with your Then and Now work... that's your decision.. either here in this thread, where many 'eyeballs' are, or start a new thread and keep things churning (i.e., post a couple of week) to get discussions going.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

The article is in the April 1918 issue of Construction.

Thank you Sir. Much appreciated.