Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[adma]

Reminds me of how one of Toronto's great street-vista/urban experiences is driving south from Finch along Doris and--wham! a non-stop wall of condos, as far as the eye can see...

 

[ElJay]

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.

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Now THAT'S landfill !!!!

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

That's captured German submarine UC 97 beside the tug on its tour of the Great Lakes before being sunk in Lake Michigan in 1921 by the US Navy. Hence the large crowd, I imagine.

 

[Goldie]

1 Don Mills Rd. (at O'Connor) 1980

1 Don Mills Rd. by Google:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/O...2!3m1!1s0x89d4cc539c7e9b75:0xd9cf84bcb0002f95

 

[Moonflake]

similar view circa 1957View attachment 89509

Does anyone have any photos of that factory with the two chimneys and the brick building to its immediate south?

 

[gimbal]

The two chimneys I believe were part of the Royal York steam plant.

 

[Moonflake]

The two chimneys I believe were part of the Royal York steam plant.

Cool. Thanks for posting. Too bad those buildings didn't survive. Southcore could use some variation in texture.

 

[Goldie]

Italian social club, College St. (SFU digitized collections)

Photo by Google"
https://www.google.com/maps/place/6...2!3m1!1s0x882b34f1b31d29f5:0x876e68f9f4d3a7cd

 

[adma]

Ah, Cynar beverages...

 

[DSCToronto]

South East Corner of George Street South and Front Street - 1972 and 2016

 

[Goldie]

Toronto Public Library, Bloor & Gladstone - cornerstone ceremony 1913

 

[DSCToronto]

George and Front - North-West corner 2016 and 1972

 

[Goldie]

Whenever I hear of George St., I immediately recall my first job in a photography studio (Pringle & Booth Studios).
It was somewhere between 181 and 199 George St.
No sign of it today because that whole block seems to have been demolished for the Moss Park Armouries.

 

[Goldie]

1245-1251 St. Clair Ave. W. 1911

Photo by Google:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...2!3m1!1s0x882b347310507885:0x40873fd100999907

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

It was somewhere between 181 and 199 George St.

THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA
TORONTO
DECEMBER
1944

Pringle & Booth Limited
195 George Street.
Elgin 6363

Regards,
J T

 

[Goldie]

Whenever I hear of George St., I immediately recall my first job in a photography studio (Pringle & Booth Studios).
It was somewhere between 181 and 199 George St.
No sign of it today because that whole block seems to have been demolished for the Moss Park Armouries.

Thanks for that correct address, JT.
I was at P&B for only 6 months (c, 1955) earning $35 per week!
I believe they moved to Leslie St., in Don Mills when Moss Park took over George St.
and then , later on, moved to Woodbine Ave. in Markham.
Wonder if P&B is still in business?