Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Michael Bruce]

I found a site to add a slider to all these Then & Now photos Goldie. I used the 1st one in this thread that Mustapha posted many moons ago. Not the best example but if you crop of the edges of the photos you are trying with you can get it perfect. https://revision.lukasz.cc/view/Vw8AHHSnskUrLC7IAQsx8E96x3yeJ1hE Click on the top where it say reVision and add any two photos you like. Then you click on copy/share to get a link for the combined photos.

 

[Goldie]

Danforth at Don Mills Rd. (Broadview) 1915

Google street view:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6761...4!1sXt0kOCBlDqcqHhLK4D2fHg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Mario1972]

City Hall in three stages...1959, 1962, 1965
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Love this one. Thanks for sharing.

Mario
Avangard Photo

 

[Richard White]

It's ironic how anyone under the age of 20 won't recognize this logo.. shame really as it was better than what we have now.

 

[Skeezix]

It's ironic how anyone under the age of 20 won't recognize this logo.. shame really as it was better than what we have now.View attachment 152357

I don't mind the Toronto log, and I am perhaps less fond of the Metro Toronto logo than you. But it is a pretty decent logo.

What I really hate is the East York logo - it looks like a high school art project. And because that was the logo in place at the time of amalgamation, it will never be replaced, and the City adds it to street signs in Old East York. That part of town is stuck with that ugly logo forever.

 

[Koolgreen]

I coulda sworn that ey is from the cosburn comet circa 1975

 

[Goldie]

 

[Goldie]

William McMaster house - Bloor St. E., N. side - W. of Park Rd 1955 TPL

It was somewhere along this totally redeveloped stretch of Bloor (between Park Rd. and Yonge).

Google street view:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6708...4!1sdsXle8RZhLvsObqiOK3zYQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[condovo]

^^^Sad

 

[Goldie]

Wonderful photos of Toronto at these two sites....both old and new.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2017/04/toronto-history-growth-photos/

https://www.blogto.com/city/2017/05/most-iconic-photos-toronto/

 

[Goldie]

Ford Hotel (n/e corner Bay-Dundas) demolition 1974

Google street view:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6560...4!1sOBAYW_vwbpFxhWpk_dyQzQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[Goldie]

Ford St. N. from Davenport 1916 CTA

Google street view:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6708...4!1sZU-ChL-gvo5XOnOXwpmWVg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[gary133]

What, the newer generation doesn't know about these things? I still have a lower cut pair ('toe rubbers') from when I worked and actually wore dress shoes. What do people who have to wear business attire do now? Get wet feet?

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I grew up with these:

And still always keep a pair of these around:

Had all of the above at one time or another growing up or early working days. The red-soled black rubber boots were standard issue for kids in the 50s/60s for puddle jumping and playing in the local creek (Taylor/Massey). If you stepped in too deep a spot you got a "soaker". As time and fashion went on it became harder to get toe rubbers and overshoes to fit over the current shoe styles.

 

[lenaitch]

Ford St. N. from Davenport 1916 CTA
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Google street view:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6708...4!1sZU-ChL-gvo5XOnOXwpmWVg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I notice in the caption it seems to say Toronto Suburban Railway "change of gauge". Anyone with info on that aspect? Nothing related jumps out at me from the photo.

 

[thecharioteer]

Downtown:

(Photo by Razz on the Massey Tower thread)