Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Goldie]

Sheppard at Yonge looking east

Google street-view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.761...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5y1JiU24Q3sgAN8P4BeYOA!2e0

Sheppard at Yonge looking west

Google street-view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.761...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1BFWjIN1t0b92Pjku0w_IA!2e0

A well-known landmark, Dempsey Hardware, at the N/W corner in 1969

 

[adma]

A well-known landmark, Dempsey Hardware, at the N/W corner in 1969
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..now at 250 Beecroft

 

[Marmaly]

Sheppard at Yonge looking east
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Google street-view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.761...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5y1JiU24Q3sgAN8P4BeYOA!2e0

Sheppard at Yonge looking west
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Google street-view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.761...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1BFWjIN1t0b92Pjku0w_IA!2e0

A well-known landmark, Dempsey Hardware, at the N/W corner in 1969
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Always interesting to see how main streets were often misaligned crossing Yonge.

 

[AlbertHWagstaff]

Front St looking east from Bathurst, April 1954 and June 2016. The streetcar tracks on Front were in use until March 30, 1954 when the subway opened. Would have been interesting if they'd been left in place all the way across downtown.

I think the steel light pole on the south side today is the same one as the first relatively straight one in the 1954 view.

 

[Koolgreen]

could you imagine if they had the foresight to build a subway line on king, or queen ..... I was just in montreal and took the subway everywhere...
I have to take a bus after a subway in Toronto which is so tedious and time consuming....

 

[thecharioteer]

could you imagine if they had the foresight to build a subway line on king, or queen ..... I was just in montreal and took the subway everywhere...
I have to take a bus after a subway in Toronto which is so tedious and time consuming....

See: http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/10/what_ever_happened_to_the_queen_street_subway_line/

 

[Cast_Member]

I felt the TTC should have left the tracks there incase of an emergency.

 

[Goldie]

1884 view of railway lands at foot of John St.

Similar view of that area today.

From: Google Maps…………..
https://www.google.com/maps/place/L...2!3m1!1s0x882b34d6de554f41:0xea0f7490cb40502e

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Harbour Commission Building c.1920 (built 1917).
I'm forever fascinated by this building which once existed at the water's edge.
It has stayed in place while our amazing city waterfront simply moved away.

Now THAT'S landfill !!!!

From Google Maps……..
https://www.google.com/maps/search/...nto/@43.6409297,-79.3800068,19z/data=!3m1!1e3

 

[Goldie]

York St. off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway 1964 -- before completion of the Gardiner

From: Google Maps………….
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6400608,-79.3796548,19z/data=!3m1!1e3

 

[Koolgreen]

similar view circa 1957

 

[Klaatu]

I like these pics so much that I started saving some --- but there are almost 900 pages so if I do a page a day it will take 3 years. lol

I'm doing the same, been so for a few years. Love this forum!

 

[bigmac1x]

I absolutely remember the pony man. My dad had my photo taken on Montrose sitting on a pony when i was about four years old. Kids would always come running to see the pony man and the knife sharpening man and the ice cream man and the chicken man.

 

[bigmac1x]

This pony and his assistant were still active in the suburbs in 1996 ..............

 

[salsa]

North York Centre - 30 years of growth.