Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Mustapha]

Just for fun...

 

[Koolgreen]

is that not the intersection where a brown derby used to be????

 

[Goldie]

is that not the intersection where a brown derby used to be????

Yes, at the N/E corner of Yonge-Dundas.
Here are images from 1950 & 1971 .................

 

[Koolgreen]

thanks G for those views....for some reason, I remember the older version more even though we passed that intersection almost weekly when we made our visits to Chinatown for dim sum etc during the seventies.....

 

[Mustapha]

RCMI University Ave. c1905.

Now. Oct 2015. Condo, and homaged façade.

Queen and Bond NW corner c1910-ish.

Now. Oct 2015.

Looking E from Spadina Ave. bridge. May 17, 1983. The odd building on the left was and is still the Royal Bank's data/operations centre.

Now. Oct 2015.

King and Spadina looking E along King. Sep 3, 1973. Nice old Mustang car.

Now. Oct 2015.

 

[Goldie]

Wonderful examples of the amazing changes to Toronto in the last 30-40 years (rail lands & King St.).
Could that 1905 photo of the RCMI have been printed in reverse or has the recent restoration simply reversed the original layout?

 

[railmus]

RCMI University Ave. c1905.

FWIW. Looks to me like the man door is much closer to the windows in the 1905 pic but this can be deceiving. Also space from roadway to front of building is bigger but could have been lost to a road widening.

Now. Oct 2015. Condo, and homaged façade.

Queen and Bond NW corner c1910-ish.

Now. Oct 2015.

Looking E from Spadina Ave. bridge. May 17, 1983. The odd building on the left was and is still the Royal Bank's data/operations centre.

Now. Oct 2015.

King and Spadina looking E along King. Sep 3, 1973. Nice old Mustang car.

Now. Oct 2015.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"Could that 1905 photo of the RCMI have been printed in reverse or has the recent restoration simply reversed the original layout?"
Professor Goldie.

I always remember entering on the south side, front, of the building, not in anyway as shown within the "New Pic".


Regards,
J T

 

[Koolgreen]

I wonder if those are the same cannons out front?????

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"I wonder if those are the same cannons out front?????"
Koolgreen.

With the scarcity of cannon, I would think that Jeffery Dorfman wouldn't have had it any other way.

Not only that, and contrary to popular belief, they are the only totally original items from the club's exterior and and also it's interior.


Regards,
J T

 

[Anna]

The old Chinatown. My paternal grandfather told me there was a Chinatown on York street when he arrived in 1918. Someone, somewhere, has a picture(s) in a shoebox; there sure aren't any on the internet.

Among my first memories: I remember holding someones hand and being very tired and being walked up and down Elizabeth Street. [I was born in 56]. Then I remember the end of the street being closed off and the New City Hall going up.

Our New City Hall is a rare and beautiful place that additionally gave us a public square that we never had and needed, but for me it came with a price. The Chinatown identity was geographically confused for about 10 years afterwards. There would be Chinese themed events on Elizabeth and as well on Dundas near Huron, where a germinating Chinatown was gaining identity.

Just the other day I was just walking by the Kom Jug Yuen restaurant on Spadina (east side, just south of Cecil). This was the first Chinese restaurant to establish itself on Spadina, c1975-ish I think. The couple that used to run it have sold to new owners.

Mustapha, I hope you have read the book 'The Ward' if not, you should. I'll lend you my copy.
https://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/ward

 

[DSC]

From the 2007 version of Google Streetview the RCMI photo above is definitely printed backwards. It also makes it clear that pre-facedectomy the building was entered by going up a staircase.

 

[DSC]

Here's the photo - I don't think I can use the Edit function to add this after I make the initial post?

 

[Mustapha]

Mustapha, I hope you have read the book 'The Ward' if not, you should. I'll lend you my copy.
https://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/ward

Thanks Anna, I just finished reading it.

A great collection of articles this book.

So much of this thread has been taken up by 'Ward' related subject matter that it's almost required reading. And like a lot of printed matter in this internet age; there are photographs found nowhere online.

 

[Mustapha]

Walking along Sullivan Street, the homes on the north side between Beverley and Huron look like they've all been there from the beginning. Most of them have been, but mid-block... there was an 'Orphan Asylum' here once.




See plinks map:

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It looked like this:

Mid-block looks like this today, Oct 21.

Whoa, parking beside your house. This extra wide lot at #20 just might be a result of the parcelling off of the former orphanage lot.