Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Mustapha]

We talk here of Lost Buildings.

Here's a BBC link about a language - German - evolving and perhaps soon to die out and be Lost, among the descendants of early German immigrants to Texas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22490560

 

[Mustapha]

From down the road - Detroit - we have something of a 'time capsule' for our Goldie:

http://www.freep.com/article/20130618/NEWS05/306180015/

 

[Mustapha]

You think Scadding Cabin at the CNE is old? This is old.

http://gizmodo.com/17-of-the-oldest-man-made-structures-on-earth-still-in-508293601

 

[donoreo]

It's Friday and time for some weekend nonsense.




Amphicar at the CNE 1962.

You used to see these back in their day (albeit only very occasionally) on Toronto streets.

http://silodrome.com/amphicar-convertible/

I used to see one of those around Kingston all the time. The Prince George Hotel owned one in the late 80's early 90's. They still might. They would use it for promos around the city.

 

[nostalgic]

I saw one on Bayview just last week.

 

[Goldie]

From down the road - Detroit - we have something of a 'time capsule' for our Goldie:

http://www.freep.com/article/20130618/NEWS05/306180015/

That's a great story, Mustapha - thank you.
Let's revive the 'time capsule' habit.
Bury one on Canada Day!

 

[mattelderca]

That's a great story, Mustapha - thank you.
Let's revive the 'time capsule' habit.
Bury one on Canada Day!

Include a memory stick with this thread and the pictures and the original story!
How cool would it be a hundred years from now to read both stories.

 

[Mustapha]

Include a memory stick with this thread and the pictures and the original story!
How cool would it be a hundred years from now to read both stories.

I'm thinking that reading a usb stick in a hundred years... would be like trying to read a Hollerith or punch card from our past.

 

[Mustapha]

National Geographic has 'found' a selection of vintage photos from their vaults not previously published.

http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/

 

[Mustapha]

That's the Royal Lyceum Theatre there in the bottom right of the picture. 1848 - 1874. It was behind a row of shops on the south side of King Street.



Three TPL scans:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=WW1...=the royal lyceum king street toronto&f=false




Now. June 2013.

 

[Goldie]

Posted by Mustapha:
National Geographic has 'found' a selection of vintage photos from their vaults not previously published.

http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/
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I looked at all of those photos - there must have been hundreds!
Unique work, as always, by NG photographers.

 

[Browning Avenue]

I saw one on Bayview just last week.

Looking for the bay, no doubt . Bayview is one of the most inappropriately named streets in existence, and more so the further it gets from the bay. Is there anywhere on Bayview that you can actually see the bay?

 

[Browning Avenue]

I'm thinking that reading a usb stick in a hundred years... would be like trying to read a Hollerith or punch card from our past.

Probably harder. A card at least has a pattern of holes that someone in the 22nd century might be able to decode.
Likewise, my thirty-odd year old Kodachromes will be more useful a hundred years from now than the digital photos I'll take today.

 

[nostalgic]

Sadly true. It's shocking that discs degrade and become unreadable in 10 years, yet I have family photos from the 1860s. And so much information optimistically archived on floppy discs... now garbage.

 

[Goldie]

It's a shame that most family photos (and others, too) are being stored today only as 'bits & bytes' - on discs, memory sticks, hard-drives, web-servers, etc.
I'm afraid they will all vanish into cyberspace and be unavailable for viewing by future generations (a hundred years hence).
The only known method for reliable preservation of photographs is the old fashioned, PAPER PRINT.
If one wants today's digital photos to be available to great-great-grandchildren (and/or others), then paper prints, stored in a shoe-box, under the bed, is a logical solution!

A related and most interesting story of the discovery of amazing photos - stored and forgotten - now found!

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.ca/