Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[thecharioteer]

Does anyone here have a line on pictures of One Yonge street before One Yonge? I've always been curious as to what was there. I've searched at the online Toronto Archives using 'Quay' without result. Thank you in advance.

Your wish is my command, Mustapha. From the Ontario Archives, 1949, photographer Gilbert Milne:

And some postcards:

 

[FAW]

Many more 'Tely' pics at York U's great resource since I last looked.

http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/x...e=Toronto+Telegram+fonds,+F0433&type=relation

I still have my last edition Toronto Telegram that my father's father thought was important I have.

Paul

 

[Anna]

Does anyone here have a line on pictures of One Yonge street before One Yonge? I've always been curious as to what was there. I've searched at the online Toronto Archives using 'Quay' without result. Thank you in advance.

Is this too far east?

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showth...ve-Images-of-Lost-Toronto?p=721239#post721239

 

[Mustapha]

Is this too far east?

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showth...ve-Images-of-Lost-Toronto?p=721239#post721239

Nicely done thecharioteer and Anna.

In this view the Yonge street 'subway' under the railtracks into Union Station can be seen on the left. Looks like they were growing wheat or something here at Yonge and Queens Quay.

 

[thecharioteer]

thecharioteer, don't sigh.. the Pilot only moved around the corner.

Another great shot of Bloor/Yonge by James Victor Salmon 1953 (TPL):

 

[nostalgic]

Bloor and Yonge a few years earlier... looking northeast across the intersection around 1898 (based on the ages of the children with my great-grandmother). They lived on Rosehill Ave in Deer Park.

 

[thecharioteer]

Love the pic, nostalgic, particularly because of the family connection! Could it be slightly later? Those buildings being demolished were about to be replaced by the Traders Bank Building, built in 1906/7, pic provided by wwwebster (note the Star sign in both):

 

[LowPolygon]

Toronto Star, Saturday May 19, 1906

 

[nostalgic]

Wow – that's impressive sleuthing! In 1906 those children would have been 12 and 10 so now I wonder who those people are and why the photo is in my great-grandparents' album.

 

[thecharioteer]

Not that this helps with the dating, but according to a Wiki article on Victorian fashion, the mutton sleeve grew in size until it essentially disappeared in 1906. This being Toronto, of course, which wasn't exactly Paris, perhaps the style lasted a little longer.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890s_in_Western_fashion

 

[nostalgic]

I think the play bills, and ad in the Star, confirm the date as 1906 (even down to the time of year... apparently a cold spring). I looked up the address in city directories. The same doctor was at 2 Bloor E in 1899, 1905 and 1906 (a dentist as well in 1905, and a dressmaker instead of the dentist in the 1906 directory). The 1907 directory lists tenants at the Traders Bank Apartments. But, if the old building was being torn down in spring 1906, how was the new building completed and rented out in time for the 1907 directory compiled in 1906?

I'm still marvelling at thedeepend finding that little ad in the Star!

 

[Mustapha]

Sneaking one in Mustapha, even though it's not your day off! I hope it's OK.

Kodak Building 9 Entry Hall, circa 1942:

Post-2005?

2011:

2020:

Some relevant reading. I'm still moved by k10ery's post.


http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/the_end_of_kodachrome_and_the_death_of_kodak_heights/


http://petapixel.com/2012/11/08/photographs-documenting-the-demise-of-camera-film-companies/

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for April 22, 2013.



Then. 7 Labatt Ave, c1919.

Now. September 2012.

Yep, the original building is still there. I'm not sure why Photobucket lopped off the right hand side of my Now picture.

 

[fugaziosbourne]

Hello,

Does anyone have any pictures of the following streets from 1913 to the present?

Goodwood Park Crescent
Eastdale
Newman

Thanks.

 

[Mustapha]

Hello,

Does anyone have any pictures of the following streets from 1913 to the present?

Goodwood Park Crescent
Eastdale
Newman

Thanks.

Hi fugaziosbourne,

I looked in the usual place:

https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.co...04&bCachable=1&MenuName=Public+Keyword+Search

Only result was for the Goodwood in the St. Clair and Dufferin area, not yours in the Dawes Rd Danforth area.

Can anyone else help?