Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

Early Scarborough settlers

 

[mattelderca]

Bomb girls!

My mother worked there! As I remember she said she put detonator caps on the bombs. She always complained that the early fluorescent lighting damaged her eyesight. She would travel from Wilson and Bathurst by TTC and sometimes on the way home would stop somewhere along the route, on high spot close to home and watch the city go dark during blackout warnings.

 

[Goldie]

Birchmount at Kingston Rd.

The "radial car" line along Kingston Rd. from Queen St. E. to West Hill ceased operation in 1936.

 

[adma]

Birchmount at Kingston Rd.

The "radial car" line along Kingston Rd. from Queen St. E. to West Hill ceased operation in 1936.

...and interestingly, coinciding with Kingston Road/Hwy 2's widening into a divided roadway. (The radial ROW probably provided the elbow room to widen.)

 

[Mustapha]

There's also the former Warner Bros building on the NE corner of Church and Carlton, which brought a tiny bit of Hollywood glamour to Toronto. My googling this building brought me to this image of movie ads from 1932/1933 which is worth sharing:

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http://silenttoronto.com/?tag=toronto-movie-theatres

In the centrally located ad for 'International House', 'Baby Rose Marie' is mentioned. I thought to myself: could this really have been a baby? Something to do with the old Dick Van Dyke show? Yep on both counts. And she's still with us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Marie

 

[Mustapha]

Birchmount at Kingston Rd.

The "radial car" line along Kingston Rd. from Queen St. E. to West Hill ceased operation in 1936.

That's a couple of nice reasonably high resolution Then Scarborough pictures lately Goldie. Great touch waiting for the bus.

 

[Mustapha]

My mother worked there! As I remember she said she put detonator caps on the bombs. She always complained that the early fluorescent lighting damaged her eyesight. She would travel from Wilson and Bathurst by TTC and sometimes on the way home would stop somewhere along the route, on high spot close to home and watch the city go dark during blackout warnings.

I had to look it up:

"The 700 and 701 are used in the 3in anti aircraft rocket .During acceleration air enters the holes in the tip of the fuze causing pressure to build up which forces the plunger down over the striker.The lower edge of the plunger bearing on the outer edge of the pawls,causes there inner ends to lift the striker and compress the striker spring.This movement continues untill the inner ends of the pawls are rotated clear of the striker which is then driven into the percussion cap initiating the delay train in the upper time ring.This in turn ignites the delay train in the lower time setting ring which burns for the required period,and then initiates the gunpowder charge in the base of the fuze.The explosion of the gunpowder charge initiates the gain no13 which is located in the adapter ring below the fuze
The 701 is almost identical to the 700 except that instead of using gain no13 this fuze is fitted with a magazine containing two CE pellets which is an integral part of the fuze assembly
regards spotter "

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ordnance-ammo/ww2-shell-fuse-3887/



And, an edit to add a couple of pictures of a training fuse, I think. JT Cunningham owns this curiosity. Will wonders never cease. He seems like such a peaceable man too.

 

[Goldie]

...and interestingly, coinciding with Kingston Road/Hwy 2's widening into a divided roadway. (The radial ROW probably provided the elbow room to widen.)

And speaking of that radial car route, here's another story:

Kingston Rd. at Midland

The Half Way House (so-named because it was between Dunbarton (Pickering) and the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto) was located at the N/W corner.
It was built c.1848 and moved to Black Creek Pioneer Village in 1966.
Replaced by a brick post office building which has now become a fitness establishment.

1918

2014

1849

1910

1920

1952

 

[Mustapha]

Then. 29-31-33-35 Beverley Street. Oct 2, 1946. I actually chose this picture to make a point about stained glass windows; that being, they are lovely, and add a nice visual touch to an interior when the sun's rays strike them directly. But I do realize they are out of place in modern homes.

Now. July 2014.

 

[Mustapha]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/photography-then-and-now

 

[Goldie]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/series/photography-then-and-now

That's a magnificent collection of "Then & Nows", Mustapha.

I really admire the 'dissolve' technique.

 

[Koolgreen]

Bomb girls!

or those girls are da bomb!!

 

[Mustapha]

or those girls are da bomb!!

Here ya go Koolgreen; the real thing and the 'Bomb Girls' TV version:

 

[Goldie]

Here ya go Koolgreen; the real thing

And that stylish lady in black is Mary Pickford --- how many today will know that name?

 

[Goldie]

Then. 29-31-33-35 Beverley Street. Oct 2, 1946. I actually chose this picture to make a point about stained glass windows; that being, they are lovely, and add a nice visual touch to an interior when the sun's rays strike them directly. But I do realize they are out of place in modern homes.

Now. July 2014.

"Out of place" indeed!

When I last visited my birthplace on Donlands Ave., I found an original satined-glass window still visible (from the outside), but much the worse-for-wear. I believed the house was built c.1930.
I was invited to tour the interior and was surprised to see that this window is now unseen behind a recent wall renovation. It was once a high-level living room window.