Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[NomoreaTorontonian]

The building at King and Berkeley, NE corner has a Heritage Toronto plaque saying it was originally a pharmacy.

Mitchell's Directory of 1864 has a tavern run by Hugh Taylor on that corner.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Late to the party, but "all the way" to where - Long Branch?

 

[clash]

Houses extended all the way to the lake in that area until the Gardiner was built.

There's not much left by the time the picture in this link was taken, but it's no less interesting.

http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/gardiners-no-innocent/

 

[Mustapha]

There's not much left by the time the picture in this link was taken, but it's no less interesting.

http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/gardiners-no-innocent/

More on 'Lost' Parkdale... here's a series of equally well done Then and Now style photo illustrated articles:


http://rightinniagara.blogspot.com/2009/03/toronto-then-and-now-old-parkdale.html



I wonder if either blogger is a UTer?





September 10 addition.




Melinda and Jordan looking SW. That's the old Toronto Telegram building in the distance on the far right of the Then pic.

Then: Circa 1960??

Now: July 2009

 

[Anna]

There's not much left by the time the picture in this link was taken, but it's no less interesting.
http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/gardiners-no-innocent/

More on 'Lost' Parkdale... here's a series of equally well done Then and Now style photo illustrated articles:
http://rightinniagara.blogspot.com/2009/03/toronto-then-and-now-old-parkdale.html

The last two pictures on this lost webpage also show what one of the streets used to look like
http://web.archive.org/web/20070618063217/www.parkdale.tv/street.html

 

[Mustapha]

The last two pictures on this lost webpage also show what one of the streets used to look like
http://web.archive.org/web/20070618063217/www.parkdale.tv/street.html

This whole thing is starting to remind me of Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chavezravine/

 

[adma]

Then: Circa 1960??

Is that "Dugout" place below street level? (And, disorienting: two identical hanging Coca-Cola signs on the same block)

 

[jmays]

Yes it's below street level. Hence the name "dugout".

 

[Towered]

I don't think that little flapper by the light post would have been afraid of anything.

Quite daring - she's showing a scandalous amount of leg for a 30's chick.

 

[DSC]

Mitchell's Directory of 1864 has a tavern run by Hugh Taylor on that corner.

The plaque says that the building dates from 1859 when it housed a druggist and tavern. Now there's a good combination!

 

[NomoreaTorontonian]

The plaque says that the building dates from 1859 when it housed a druggist and tavern. Now there's a good combination!

With a bit further investigation I think I have now found the original family who anonymously found their way on to the plaque on the house at King and Berkeley.

In Caverhill's Directory (1859-60) John Henry lives at 53 Berkeley Street and he is a porter. The census says Henry is 41--the eldest of 3 sons living at home with their widowed mother. The occupations are porter, labourer and storekeeper. I can just about conjure up a store that sold anything and everything from patent medicines to alcoholic beverages.

Some time between the census and Mitchell's directory of 1863-64, they sold out to Hugh Taylor who made the store into a tavern. Either the mother died or one of them got married and the Henry family's nice little enterprise disappeared.

I hope this premise is as good as our thoughts about the flapper at the Ex in 1929.

 

[Mustapha]

With a bit further investigation I think I have now found the original family who anonymously found their way on to the plaque on the house at King and Berkeley.

In Caverhill's Directory (1859-60) John Henry lives at 53 Berkeley Street and he is a porter. The census says Henry is 41--the eldest of 3 sons living at home with their widowed mother. The occupations are porter, labourer and storekeeper. I can just about conjure up a store that sold anything and everything from patent medicines to alcoholic beverages.

Some time between the census and Mitchell's directory of 1863-64, they sold out to Hugh Taylor who made the store into a tavern. Either the mother died or one of them got married and the Henry family's nice little enterprise disappeared.

I hope this premise is as good as our thoughts about the flapper at the Ex in 1929.

Our old tavern and its equally old neighbours to the north are lath and plaster with a coating of stucco or siding... I wonder if they can survive another 150 years.





September 11 addition.



Yonge. Looking SE from just S of Gerrard.


Then: Circa 1980?

Now: July 2009.

 

[Goldie]

Historical Atlas of Toronto

I'm sure this amazing book was recommended recently by a participent on UT.
I'm now perusing a copy from the Toronto Public Library and am truly enjoying every page.
Anyone with an interest in Toronto's history should have a look. It's a delight!

 

[Long Island Mike]

Miscellany Toronto pics...

Mustapha: The Pic posted today looks definitely 80s to me.
Yesterday's pic has to be Middle 60s - the car parked on the left looks like a Ford Falcon or Mercury Comet from that era and I believe I see a 1964 Chevy Impala parked in that right row(5th from the front) among the late 50s/early 60s era cars. LI MIKE

 

[Kitsune]

September 11 addition.

Yonge. Looking SE from just S of Gerrard.

Then: Circa 1980?

Now: July 2009.

wow... only one building was physically changed... the rest are all renamed except one.