Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[DSC]

Here is 1910.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Union_Hotel,_Front_Street,_Toronto,_Canada.JPG

Now is at: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...40m-46s-cadillac-fairview-as-gg.17751/page-81 For example:

 

[LPCI]

Here is 1910.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Union_Hotel,_Front_Street,_Toronto,_Canada.JPG

View attachment 181369

Now is at: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...40m-46s-cadillac-fairview-as-gg.17751/page-81 For example: View attachment 181370

I followed the links, it seems what they are tearing down is the building behind the Grand Union Hotel. The one with the boring rectangular windows.

 

[Goldie]

I followed the links, it seems what they are tearing down is the building behind the Grand Union Hotel. The one with the boring rectangular windows.

Yes, LPCI. The site of that hotel has been a parking lot for about 10 years.

 

[DSC]

I followed the links, it seems what they are tearing down is the building behind the Grand Union Hotel. The one with the boring rectangular windows.

Yes, the hotel was where parking lot is

 

[Goldie]

Yonge St. looking north. The house on the right is at the S-E corner of Yonge and Cummer Ave. 1958 TPL

 

[LPCI]

Thank you. I love these forums. I spend my time counting windows, checking locations of hydro poles and fire hydrants (replaced but rarely moved), studying roof lines, going to Google Earth for a current view, going to other sites for older views, researching for myself further on a topic raised, etc. And other’s insights.

 

[adma]

Yes, LPCI. The site of that hotel has been a parking lot for about 10 years.

Actually, the Grand Union's been gone for something more like 55-60 years.

 

[DSC]

Here is another view of the hotel - it had a variety of names - at Front & Simcoe.

 

[Goldie]

That hotel had an ideal location in the days when the first Union Station was immediately across the street.

 

[Goldie]

THEN & LATER..............

York St. slip 1928

York St. docks 1935

 

[Goldie]

600 Parliament St. Owner was offered $45,000 in 1967.

 

[Goldie]

That castle-like building at the corner of Yonge and College is where I had my first job at age 16.
I'm amazed by the recent additions to that neighbourhood.

 

[Goldie]

This has always been the most interesting intersection in Toronto.

 

[Goldie]

Scott Mission, Spadina Ave., N. of College,,,,,1960........TPL

 

[LPCI]

No lineups, but not to say anything is better now.