Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[Bogtrotter]

Ferries, tugs and a captured U-boat (UC-97) are docked where there are now cars and condos. Great image.

 

[Michael Bruce]

Amazing, isn't it?......That it was once at the water's edge!
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So many photos from the Toronto Archives were taken from the roof of the T.H.C. building. One day I would like to go up there and do a few then & now photos before they build the next building. It might be too late Goldie now that I think about what is already there. Has it ever been part of Doors Open ?

 

[Goldie]

I shot these five years ago........wish I'd taken more.

 

[Goldie]

Made this panorama in 2013:

 

[Mustapha]

McCaul Street Loop.

Then (1975. I remembered the date when I looked at the picture but I lost track of where I found it.) and today, Sunday March 18, 2018.

In the Then picture, the patch of grass in the middle of the 'loop' is now today an OCAD building completely encircled by the streetcar track.

Above the loop today is the 'Village by the Grange' condo complex.

Be sure to visit the VBTG food court. A bustling place. Nothing like it in any condo in Toronto.

 

[Goldie]

This "Then" image - 1928 from the Spadina Bridge, looking E.) needs a "Now" companion.

 

[DSC]

Hard to get to same spot (or actually to identify it) but the view east now is 'somewhat' different.

 

[Skeezix]

Hard to get to same spot (or actually to identify it) but the view east now is 'somewhat' different.

You might be pretty close to dead on. Is that the Spadina Roundhouse (demolished to make way for SkyDome) in the 1928 photo?

 

[Goldie]

Rio Theatre, Yonge St. opposite Walton St.........1950

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Y...2!3m1!1s0x882b34cab8af14b3:0xc451872bead80a16

 

[Mustapha]

The Google folks linked many Toronto Archive pics to a Google map and have an interactive thing going on here. Click on the blue dots to see the Then pic or pics. I clicked about 50 of the blue dots... 10 of them were 'just in the ballpark' of the actual location. They probably used artificial intelligence to compile this. A nice result.

https://oldtoronto.sidewalklabs.com/#

 

[DSC]

The Google folks linked many Toronto Archive pics to a Google map and have an interactive thing going on here. Click on the blue dots to see the Then pic or pics. I clicked about 50 of the blue dots... 10 of them were 'just in the ballpark' of the actual location. They probably used artificial intelligence to compile this. A nice result.

https://oldtoronto.sidewalklabs.com/#

Absolutely Amazing!! They also have an easy way to correct info, I saw two photos mis-identified and reported them.

 

[r937]

i reported a couple dozen yesterday, in Leaside and East York, some egregiously off base

great project, i trust they will act on the corrections soon...

 

[Goldie]

junction of King St. E. and Queen St. E. .....1911

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Q...a43744fae28200!8m2!3d43.6637879!4d-79.3278595

 

[Anna]

junction of King St. E. and Queen St. E. .....1911

That's one of the photos on the Sidewalk Labs site I corrected today - they had it at the intersection of Don Mills and Wynford Drive.

Part of the problem is improper labelling of the Archives photos - but this one was labelled 'King Street - Queen Street (Intersection west from Don Bridge)'

 

[Goldie]

York St., construction of Royal York Hotel in 1928

Google street view:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1ssJn7Tzi93YOa9-EywHjQIQ!2e0