Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

Thanks, r937. That's the fun part of this hobby.

 

[thecharioteer]

Sorry, guys, not as well lined up! The Royal York Hotel lobby:

 

[junctionist]

That lobby is an excellent space. We're fortunate to still have it considering how many such spaces were gutted in the 1950s-1970s in what where often banal Modernist-style renovations.

 

[adma]

Though when it comes to "banality", it's interesting to compare the original interiors to those in the 1959 addition--the gray-flannel-suit-drab "convention spaces", I mean...

 

[Goldie]

Yonge looking N. from Queen 1954 and 2013

 

[Koolgreen]

Good grief; as a bit of a police car buff I'd forgotten about those two door sedans.

Right out of the Dirty Harry era

 

[dbailey62]

City Hall 1941 and 2013

Hard to say with 100% assuredness but I'm saying with 98% assuredness that the biplane in the shot is a Gloster Gladiator. The angle of the wing struts and the enclosed cockpit give it away I think.

Comments?

http://www.canadianwings.com/Aircraft/aircraftDetail.php?GLADIATOR-23

 

[thecharioteer]

Yonge south of The Esplanade 1920 (TPL):

2013:

(MafaldaBoy - UT)
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showth...-Fernbrook-Cityzen-58s-Libeskind-P-S)/page339

 

[Goldie]

It's amazing to realize that the "L Tower" would have been right at the water's edge - before all that landfill.

 

[gary133]

Looks more like the De Haviland DH82 Tiger Moth as used in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and built here in Toronto.

The first British-built D.H. 82 Tiger Moth for Canadian use was assembled at Downsview, Ontario in the summer of 1935. The Tiger Moth was an obvious replacement for the DH 60 Moth that was in air force service at the time, but the RCAF was in a state of hold and was without a budget. In May 1936, Phillip Garratt, a First World War pilot, became General Manager of de Havilland Canada. Garratt designed an all Canadian version of the Tiger Moth incorporating the RCAF's requested changes to the original design. These included an enclosed cockpit suitable for winter flying, heavier axles that could accept skis, a padded instrument panel and other refinements. Tigers incorporating these design changes were designated DH 82C to distinguish them from their 'A' model English cousins. In early 1937, Garratt finally won a long sought after order from the RCAF for 26 Tiger Moth trainers. A condition of the sale was that the Tiger Moths would be manufactured, not just assembled, at Downsview. Eventually 1747 Canadian Tiger Moths were built by de Havilland and these aircraft equipped many Elementary Flying Schools throughout the country. RCAF Tiger Moths flew an impressive 1,778,348 flying hours during the war and equipped more than 20 flying schools.

(quote from Bomber Command museum website http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca

 

[Toronto Real Estate Agent]

Wonderful photos found on this thread. Question, am i allowed to use the photos (old shots, not the new ones)? Not for resale purposes but for rather on my blog or website?

Anyone know?

 

[moe45673]

I agree

And I wouldn't see why not, using them here is near identical

 

[DSC]

I agree

And I wouldn't see why not, using them here is near identical

In general you ought to note original source (Toronto Archives etc etc). This also allows others to go and search for more in same repository.

 

[thecharioteer]

House for Dr. G. R. McDonagh, 329 Church Street, south of Gerrard. One of E. J. Lennox's finest residential designs, built in 1888, demolished in 1970.

From Eric Arthur's No Mean City:

On this very nice town house of a well-to-do doctor the architect for the City Hall lavished a good deal of care. The Richardsonian manner of the City Hall shows in the basket weave brickwork,carving and the very handsome dormer.

Today:

 

[thecharioteer]

"House for Dr. G. R. McDonagh, 329 Church Street, south of Gerrard. One of E. J. Lennox's finest residential designs, built in 1888, demolished in 1970."
QUOTE: Thecharioteer.

My newly acquired Official TELEPHONE DIRECTORY TORONTO AND SUBURBS - December 1906:
(THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED.)

McDonagh, Dr G R. - Surgeon.
140 Carlton Street.
Telephone No: North 1320.


Regards,
J T

Looks like the good doctor moved up to a better location, opposite Allan Gardens!

View of the Church Street house, on the left, 1960's: