Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

This is a not-to-be-missed Flickr set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/queenstwest/sets/72157626729708368/

Nice documentary set of that era.
Wish we knew the photographer's name so that credit could be given for such good work.

 

[Mustapha]

Nice documentary set of that era.
Wish we knew the photographer's name so that credit could be given for such good work.

Bob Whalen. I don't know him. His work is all over the Vintage Toronto Facebook page.

 

[Mustapha]

"Nice documentary set of that era."
QUOTE.

My God! The Queen of Sweden!


Regards,
j t

I'll bet you thought you'd seen the end of her didn't you? I hope the image didn't cause too much upset.

 

[Mustapha]

Heya,

mattelderca, Hogdust, Hudson8 and the other 'car' guys whose names I can't remember right now. Oh, yah, LI Mike, JT, Gebbois...


I came across this in my travels last week.

Gazing upon the fresh faced visage of Miss Billie Hallam - Miss Toronto 1937 - every morning on the patio when I have my coffee. Don't mind the other stuff; I decided to create a 'still life tableau' out of the ancient technological items I daily carry on my person. Yep, that's a film camera [no film in it], a transistor radio, a Parker 'Jotter' pen [unchanged since 1955; you can buy them at Rexall Drugs for lunch money] and a watch that winds up by the arm motions of its wearer.

 

[Mustapha]

Heya, looking for something to do tomorrow?

Check out The Chinatown Festival. Spadina between College and Dundas. 11:00am through 7:30pm. Dragon Dance at 7:30pm if you like that sort of thing. It has it's fans.

 

[Blovertis]

A Billie Hallam coffee mug? That is truly hardcore. Surely not something you can buy off-the-shelf?

 

[Mustapha]

A Billie Hallam coffee mug? That is truly hardcore. Surely not something you can buy off-the-shelf?

Hi Blovertis,

I got it here on Queen West a couple years ago:

http://www.valhallacards.com/detail.aspx?ID=61148

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for September 10, 2012.



Then. Danforth looking E from just E of Pape. July 7, 1913.

Now. April 2012.

 

[thecharioteer]

This is a not-to-be-missed Flickr set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/queenstwest/sets/72157626729708368/

Great set, Mustapha. I've used two of his pics to illustrate the evolution of the NE corner of Bloor and Yonge (and the SE). The first pic is from the archives and is from 1926:

2009:

 

[Hudson8]

Heya,

mattelderca, Hogdust, Hudson8 and the other 'car' guys whose names I can't remember right now. Oh, yah, LI Mike, JT, Gebbois...


I came across this in my travels last week.

Thanks Mustapha, nice find......Diamond Taxi has a pic of this car on the landing page of their website, in their own version of a "Then and Now"

http://www.diamondtaxi.ca/

 

[DSCToronto]

Thanks Mustapha, nice find......Diamond Taxi has a pic of this car on the landing page of their website, in their own version of a "Then and Now". http://www.diamondtaxi.ca/

The car is fairly often parked in the laneway (McFarrens Lane) that runs to the west of the Diamond offices at Queen and Sherbourne.

 

[Mustapha]

Great set, Mustapha. I've used two of his pics to illustrate the evolution of the NE corner of Bloor and Yonge (and the SE). The first pic is from the archives and is from 1926:

2009:

Nice journey down through the years; thank you thecharioteer.

One of the things I look for in these Then and Nows is some sort of continuity. That continuity would be the Laura Secord store. It appears in the 1936 picture and is doggedly still there in the 1970s era picture, albeit a few doors north. Today it still trades at this intersection; across the street in the basement level of the Hudsons Bay Centre.

 

[Mustapha]

Heya,

mattelderca, Hogdust, Hudson8 and the other 'car' guys whose names I can't remember right now. Oh, yah, LI Mike, JT, Gebbois...


I came across this in my travels last week.

Thanks Mustapha, nice find......Diamond Taxi has a pic of this car on the landing page of their website, in their own version of a "Then and Now"

http://www.diamondtaxi.ca/

The car is fairly often parked in the laneway (McFarrens Lane) that runs to the west of the Diamond offices at Queen and Sherbourne.

I found it on Hammersmith Blvd in the east end.. it's been in the same spot for a couple weeks now.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for September 11, 2012.



Then. Sep 22, 1915. Danforth Av W from Woodbine Av Open fields; imagine that.

Now. April 2012.

 

[Goldie]

Nice self-portrait, Mustapha!