Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

[buxvet]

Awesome thankyou, I was hoping to see a street level view, but this is the only picture I have ever seen
Thankyou so much

 

[buxvet]

also interesting on the map you can clearly see the alleyway I remember running behind the building

 

[adma]

I'd wonder if there were any 60s/70s/80s type colour shots of that block...

 

[Anna]

I'd wonder if there were any 60s/70s/80s type colour shots of that block...

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From the Toronto Archives website - Buildings, Part 3, Ellis Wiley fonds - there's more of that block there

 

[thecharioteer]

Here are two views from the 1950's:

 

[buxvet]

Nice, I've seen the bigger one before, thanks again, funny I'm not sure street level closeups of the east side
exist. I've been looking for 2 years

 

[brewster]

This was a total mistake. I was driving my daughter to the bus terminal and pulled over at Yonge & Edward to take one photo at Yonge & Dundas looking south. When I got home I realized I shot this in monochrome. Turns out I liked it , kind of like a reverse Then & Now.

 

[brewster]

I took this photo from the patio of Milestones at Yonge & Dundas. The reason was I was trying to put together a Then & Now of the same view I have seen from a 1950's or so Toronto Archives photo. I can't seem to track down the original photo , any help would be appreciated.

 

[Lost In The Wilds]

Does anyone else think Dundas Square would look better without the canopies? Are they really necessary? I especially dislike how there are two separate portions; the smaller one seems especially useless.

 

[Goldie]

Danforth at Don Mills Rd. (now Broadview), N/W corner 1913

Danforth at Don Mills Rd., N/W corner 1915

Gas station N/W corner, 1919

Same N/W corner, original 1/2 building, c.1960

Danforth at Broadview 2014

 

[Goldie]

Playter's Society Hall 1911, S/E corner Danforth at Don Mills Rd. (now Broadview)

Playter's Society Hall 1912

Danforth at Broadview 2014

 

[DSC]

The addition on top of Playters Society Hall is weird and remarkably ugly - I seem to remember adverts on top of the metal (?) poles but ... (BTW Who or what was/were/are the Playters Society and why did they have a Hall"?) Edit: A Google search reveals that a "Loyal Orange Lodge" met in the Hall in the 1920s - is there still an actual "hall" inside the building?

 

[adma]

More like they started an addition and never finished--but made ad hoc use of the half-finished extra penthouse level, anyway.

And judging from the gross state of the rear service courtyard when I ventured in a year or so ago, I really *don't* know how the landlordship is going there currently.

 

[Goldie]

Allen's Danforth Theatre, built 1919

Danforth Music Hall, 2014 - formerly Allen's and later known as the Century Cinema

 

[Goldie]

The addition on top of Playters Society Hall is weird and remarkably ugly - I seem to remember adverts on top of the metal (?) poles but ... (BTW Who or what was/were/are the Playters Society and why did they have a Hall"?) Edit: A Google search reveals that a "Loyal Orange Lodge" met in the Hall in the 1920s - is there still an actual "hall" inside the building?

Some info on the Playter family at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playter_Estates