Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[donoreo]

First auto used by Toronto Post Office .....1910
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In Scarborough .....2018
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Surprised the new one is not parked in a bike lane

 

[Costume Gold]

Donalda Barn and Gray Mills Barn, circa 1921?

Photo Credit

1984

Photo: Colin McConnell

Photo: Bob Krawczyk

1955

Photo: Ted Chirnside

Photo: Bob Krawczyk

 

[Goldie]

World War One 1914-1918 parade of troops on Yonge St. 1915 TPL

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.658...93.396675&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Goldie]

1907 Yonge St., Curiosity Shop (formerly Davisville P.O. & Store) ......1981 TPL

Google street view:
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[Goldie]

27 Briar Hill 1981 TPL

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.713...put=thumbnail&cb_client=maps_sv.tactile.gps%2

 

[Mustapha]

At Campbell House yesterday. Northwest corner of University and Queen. No charge to view.

 

[Mustapha]

At College Park last week.

[College and Yonge.]

That is one very old escalator.

 

[Koolgreen]

If memory serves, there was an escalator with wooden steps at either eatons or simpsons ......the only time I ever saw that was as a child....

 

[Richard White]

At College Park last week.

[College and Yonge.]

That is one very old escalator.


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I always wondered why they never opened a through passage from College to Gerrard on the east side of the building.

 

[adma]

I always wondered why they never opened a through passage from College to Gerrard on the east side of the building.

There was, originally, an "arcade" running the length of the Yonge St frontage--and it was even maintained in the original College Park retail conversion in the late 70s. But once that failed, it was subdivided for retail/office space et al in the early '00's (and as per condition, such alterations are always meant to be "reversible"). Thus the wooden escalator at the south end wound up as part of the DeBoer's store...

 

[lenaitch]

If memory serves, there was an escalator with wooden steps at either eatons or simpsons ......the only time I ever saw that was as a child....

I worked for Eaton's in the early '70. All of the escalators were of the wooden slat style and they had a unique sound. The elevators still had operators and the downtown delivery barn (Hayter St.?) was simply trucks backing into stalls that were designed for horses. It still had the drainage & through system that allowed the manure to be cleaned up, just like a barn.

The Queen St. store was an amalgam of originally several stores and the floor level would change slightly as you crossed into different areas. The College St. store was one fancy building and I'm glad they've largely kept it intact.

 

[W. K. Lis]

I worked for Eaton's in the early '70. All of the escalators were of the wooden slat style and they had a unique sound. The elevators still had operators and the downtown delivery barn (Hayter St.?) was simply trucks backing into stalls that were designed for horses. It still had the drainage & through system that allowed the manure to be cleaned up, just like a barn.

The Queen St. store was an amalgam of originally several stores and the floor level would change slightly as you crossed into different areas. The College St. store was one fancy building and I'm glad they've largely kept it intact.

A bit like the original Honest Ed's store.

 

[thecharioteer]

1907 Yonge St., Curiosity Shop (formerly Davisville P.O. & Store) ......1981 TPL
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Google street view:
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Filling in the gaps at Yonge & Davisville:

1900:

1952:

 

[Goldie]

Union Meat Market, Queen St. W., n.e. corner O'Hara Ave. 1890 TPL

Google street view:
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[Goldie]

Queen Street East, northeast corner of Coxwell Avenue 1972 TPL

Google street view:
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