Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[k10ery]

I remember an egg salad sandwich at the Crescent, back in the mid-80s when I was new to Toronto. A cockroach sauntered across the counter in front of me. When I pointed it out to the waiter, hoping for a free sandwich, he just apologized and swept it onto the floor. Introduction to life in the big city!

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

In both the second last and last paragraph February, 1921. page 41. the spelling of

Mr Andrew Dods is incorrectly noted as "Dodds".


Regards,
J T

 

[Mustapha]

I remember an egg salad sandwich at the Crescent, back in the mid-80s when I was new to Toronto. A cockroach sauntered across the counter in front of me. When I pointed it out to the waiter, hoping for a free sandwich, he just apologized and swept it onto the floor. Introduction to life in the big city!

So, a few blocks south, in the 90s; I'm sitting in a Chinese place eating har gow out of a bamboo steamer basket. They have a bitter chemical taste. I look in the basket. I see several steamed cockroaches.

 

[adma]

 

[Mustapha]

Weekend nonsense. Same spot in Kensington Market as last weekend. Different old car. A Buick Special.

 

[r937]

The DVP onramp was earlier called Winchester Dr. and connected the city with Don Mills Rd. (Broadview).
I believe the designation "Royal Drive" may have temporarily been used when the King & Queen drove into Riverdale Park during the 1939 Royal visit.

not sure about the 1939 visit, but it was definitely Royal Drive for the 1951 visit

goldie, i hope you don't mind, i used your "then and now" photo of the top end of winchester at danforth in an article i wrote on my web site about royal drive --

Rediscovering Royal Drive

the pictures date back a couple of months, and it took me until today to finish writing it all up

all i wanted was this one shot of the end of winchester street just before the bayview extension --

things kind of snowballed from there as i added more photos and links and maps (to give that one photo some meaningful context)

but then because of the recent interest in royal drive on this thread, i buckled down and finished writing it all up this evening

i hope you folks like it, and that it was okay to post a link to my own site

 

[Gebbois]

Weekend nonsense. Same spot in Kensington Market as last weekend. Different old car. A Buick Special.

Buick Special, a truly Canadian Car.
Been waiting for a chance to post this pic of my dad's 1st car in Canada

 

[k10ery]

So, a few blocks south, in the 90s; I'm sitting in a Chinese place eating har gow out of a bamboo steamer basket. They have a bitter chemical taste. I look in the basket. I see several steamed cockroaches.

Aargh!

 

[Goldie]

goldie, i hope you don't mind, i used your "then and now" photo of the top end of winchester at danforth in an article i wrote on my web site about royal drive --

Rediscovering Royal Drive

the pictures date back a couple of months, and it took me until today to finish writing it all up

i hope you folks like it, and that it was okay to post a link to my own site

I'm pleased to see that my "Then & Now" was useful to your "Rediscovering Royal Drive" site.
That's a fantastic job you've done with the history of Winchester/Royal.
I hope everyone reading this will visit your site to see your excellent example of historical research.
I'm particularly pleased because you have done exactly what I have wanted to do - congrats for beating me to it!
I have been intrigued by Winchester Drive ever since I discovered those archive pix of the path crossing the Don and reaching up to Danforth.

 

[r937]

thank you, goldie, for your wonderful words of encouragement

coming from you, they are specially valuable to me

 

[Mustapha]

Buick Special, a truly Canadian Car.
Been waiting for a chance to post this pic of my dad's 1st car in Canada

Ah, Gebbois, casually posting a picture of his dad's wonderful car with that intriguing Sayvette store in the backgound. Automotive and retail history in one picture.

 

[Mustapha]

not sure about the 1939 visit, but it was definitely Royal Drive for the 1951 visit

goldie, i hope you don't mind, i used your "then and now" photo of the top end of winchester at danforth in an article i wrote on my web site about royal drive --

Rediscovering Royal Drive

the pictures date back a couple of months, and it took me until today to finish writing it all up

all i wanted was this one shot of the end of winchester street just before the bayview extension --

things kind of snowballed from there as i added more photos and links and maps (to give that one photo some meaningful context)

but then because of the recent interest in royal drive on this thread, i buckled down and finished writing it all up this evening

i hope you folks like it, and that it was okay to post a link to my own site

This is quite the emotional and evocative picture for those of us here who are fascinated with this Lost Road. What great research and a wonderful essay piece; thank you r937.

 

[Gebbois]

Ah, Gebbois, casually posting a picture of his dad's wonderful car with that intriguing Sayvette store in the backgound. Automotive and retail history in one picture.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Yonge and Steeles. The car was used when he bought it in '62. The floorboards in the back were rusted out, and I used to look out the hole at the road as we drove.

 

[Goldie]

I'm so fond of the history of Winchester Dr. that I decided to place these two pics together as a Then & Now.
The recent photo is, as we all know, from that wonderful essay by r937 <Rediscovering Royal Drive>.


This was once the Winchester route into the Don Valley.

Today it disappears abruptly at the Bayview Extension.

 

[Mustapha]

I'm so fond of the history of Winchester Dr. that I decided to place these two pics together as a Then & Now.
The recent photo is, as we all know, from that wonderful essay by r937 <Rediscovering Royal Drive>.


This was once the Winchester route into the Don Valley.

Today it disappears abruptly at the Bayview Extension.

A journey on foot into the city, or out of it, on a warmer day, or a colder one, must have been physically trying thing along this road. Imagine starting somewhere along the Danforth and having to go to St. Lawrence Market. I haven't mentioned rain, that road must have been a morass.