Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Mustapha]

20 years ago I use to live at 22 Monteith st. Renting room in the house of Bill Copps

I had to look this up... the CBC guy of course.

I found a webpage of former CBC TV journalists... Mel Tsuji, Susan Harada [who I thought sort of cute]; seems like I was just watching them yesterday.

Time marches on.

 

[Mustapha]

Nice article on Highland Creek by our own ShonTron.

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2010/12/28/lost-villages-highland-creek-and-danforth-road/

 

[Mustapha]

'Given the present tenor of the nabe',

Good one adma. My tea just went up my nose.

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for June 27, 2013.




Then. College and Ossington, SE corner. c1915. I can't make out what business was carried on there.

Now. May 2013. RBC could have done a lot more damage had the corporate signage crews come by and insisted this branch comply with branches elsewhere.

 

[Goldie]

Then and Now for June 27, 2013.

Then. College and Ossington, SE corner. c1915. I can't make out what business was carried on there.

The awing indicates "DRUGS"

 

[railmus]

Williamsons Drugs??
Best guess after changing pic to a negative and changing values with "Irfanview"

 

[Mustapha]

Thank you Goldie and railmus.

Goldie, this just came out last night on BBC 1. A documentary on Vivian Maier. Some quantity of minutes are cut off at the end but still, someone took the trouble to upload to Youtube for us. [BBC 1 isn't available on the web outside of the UK.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ZKYhtSHmg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Goldie]

What a wonderful film! Thanks for the tip, Mustapha.

As you will know, I've taken a great interest in Vivian Maier's amazing story.

I also look forward to seeing the other film that's being made by John Maloof ("Finding Vivian Maier").

Some additional info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/23007897

 

[wwwebster]

Williamsons Drugs??

 

[Blovertis]

Quaint article -- modern pharmacy owners have clearly lost sight of the value of "window displays" as a marketing tool.

 

[thecharioteer]

Anna: Thanks for introducing us to the Harvey R. Naylor fonds. What a treasure trove! Here are some of them, which fill in the gaps on the evolution of a block that has always fascinated me, namely the King/Toronto/Church/Court block:







From the Naylor Fonds:







Court Street 1950:



By Naylor:

 

[wwwebster]

One interesting detail in this 1835 image is the rare glimpse of the north end of Henrietta Street, just to the right of the man on horseback. It was closed in 1842 when Victoria Row was built.

 

[moe45673]

Here's an even earlier view, from 1829. According to Wikipedia, the church above was the 2nd version with the one we have today completed in the 1850s. The image below shows the first version

 

[Anna]

Here's an even earlier view, from 1829. According to Wikipedia, the church above was the 2nd version with the one we have today completed in the 1850s. The image below shows the first version

There was an earlier one than that - the current one is the fourth version.

http://archive.org/stream/landmarkstoronto01robeuoft#page/n619/mode/2up

 

[railmus]

I focussed in particular on the signage on the right side of the building to get Williamsons (?)
Could Williamsons have been a pharmaceutical company or ??