Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[LPCI]

Union Meat Market, Queen St. W., n.e. corner O'Hara Ave. 1890 TPL
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Google street view:
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Amazing, it’s still a market!

 

[Goldie]

Black Bull Hotel, Queen St. W., north east corner Soho St. c.1888? TPL

Hotel Clifton 1914 TPL

We now need a current photo of this intersection..........I believe that building is still there.

 

[DSC]

Your wish is my command - Black Bull Pub.

 

[Goldie]

CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND - Bayview Ave. 1955 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Margaret Empringham on Danforth Ave. looking S. at Guest Ave. 1913 TPL

 

[Goldie]

Post Office (1873-1960), Adelaide St. E., n. side, opp. head of Toronto St. 1955 TPL

 

[Goldie]

David Duncan House "Moatfield" York Mills Rd. north side west of Don Mills Rd. 1905 TPL

 

[Bogtrotter]

Post Office (1873-1960), Adelaide St. E., n. side, opp. head of Toronto St. 1955 TPL

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This is just painful. Still one of the more pleasant side streets downtown however.

 

[Goldie]

Former Fire Hall, Richmond St. E., S. side, W. of Jarvis St. 1952 TPL

Fire hydrant on the left and original building on the right allow for positive identification of the site.

Google street view

 

[DSC]

The main part of the Fire Hall was (and is) on Lombard.

 

[Goldie]

Thanks DSC...I was not aware of that.
It looks great today.......Google image......

 

[DTC]

I wish they'd bury all those cables.

Adelaide and Princess 1972 AND 2018 (Google)

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King St. W. at Duncan.........site of Ed's Warehouse & Seafood Restaurants. 1978 TPL


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


Google street view:
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[DSC]

I wish they'd bury all those cables.

This is a topic that is best discussed (yet again!) in a more general thread but If you look at the photos of the Lombard Street Fire Hall immediately above you can see that overhead wiring IS being buried (slowly). It is not a cheap thing to do but in St Lawrence we have managed to get quite a bit dealt with (eg on Front from Church to Parliament and on The Esplanade from Jarvis to Yonge) in last decade. Both of these achieved with s 37 $$ and support of the local BIA.

 

[Goldie]

Victoria Park Avenue, looking south towards Ellesmere 1958 TPL

Google street view

 

[lenaitch]

My aunt and uncle, and later my dad, lived two blocks east of the photo. I remember that plaza - Parkway? Parkwoods?