Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[ToroTO]

I grew up only a few blocks from here, the arch-roofed building in the distance was the former Miracle Mart (now Metro) at Parkway Plaza then later enclosed to become Parkway Mall.
Parkwoods Village Plaza is on York Mills Rd. at Parkwoods Village Drive.

 

[Goldie]

Another Mall:
Robinson dairy farm, west of Yonge Street south side of Steeles Avenue, currently (2018) Centerpoint Mall 1957 TPL

Note: spelling of Centerpoint!

Google street view

 

[W. K. Lis]

Another Mall:
Robinson dairy farm, west of Yonge Street south side of Steeles Avenue, currently (2018) Centerpoint Mall 1957 TPL
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Note: spelling of Centerpoint!
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Google street view

We're planning for a subway station at that dairy farm?

 

[pman]

Cows deserve subways.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Cows deserve subways.

The lower photo says single-occupant automobiles deserve subways.

 

[Goldie]

Restored Dineen Building

 

[DSC]

Here's an earlier shot. Archives days 195?

 

[adma]

I'll presume 1954--when Yonge was being fixed back up after subway construction, and the Yonge St Arcade building on the right was freshly demolished...

 

[DSC]

232 Sherbourne, Google 2018:

Wilkie, Daniel R., house, 432 Sherbourne St., w. side, between Carlton & Wellesley Sts. Toronto, Ont. (Baldwin Room, TPL) 1908

 

[DSC]

J & J Taylor's Safe Works Front @ Frederick 1881

Today it's 145 Front

 

[DSC]

David B Archer Co-op @ George St South & The Esplanade. 2018 (Google Streetview) and 1984 (TPL).

 

[DSC]

Griffiths Block (Front @ Berczy Park) 1873 vs Beardmore Bldg 2013

From Monetary Times, 10 January 1873 (v.6, no.28), betw. pp.566-7. Inscribed in the print l.m.: Drawn Especially For the Monetary Times/J. T. Rolph, Toronto,/D. Roberts Archt/THOS. GRIFFITH & CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS, FRONT ST. TORONTO, ONT.

 

[DSC]

Paul Bishop House at Adelaide and Sherbourne. 1885 (TPL) vs 2018 (Google streetview)

 

[Goldie]

Somerset House, Church-Carlton, S/W corner 1913 TPL

This current Google image may already be out of date.
I suspect the building will soon, if not already, be demolished.

 

[adma]

I suspect the building will soon, if not already, be demolished.

Still there; and I believe "accounted for" (it's long been on the Heritage Register)