More Lost Toronto in colour

[Long Island Mike]

Ship pics and 1898 map-neat!

Charioteer: Good waterfront ship pics - but that 1898 Toronto map is excellent!
UN-TO: That early 70s pic with the triangular land that the Gooderham Flatiron Building stands on empty is quite interesting! Note all the land used to accomodate cars-is that all built out now as I suspect? LI MIKE

 

[adma]

You can tell it's 70s by the "new" National Trust sign (and the view presumably taken from Commerce Court West).

Wish I could see what that billboard was on the E side of Jarvis just north of the tracks...

 

[Urban Shocker]

I wonder when that photo was taken? When the first Flatiron mural ( by Dan Solomon ) went up in 1971 there were no windows on the west side of the building:

I can't remember how long his mural survived, but the Besant replacement went up in 1980, by which time the four windows were there.

Did the Solomon mural cover up the windows and they were later uncovered?

The little street that ran north of King into what is now St James Park is still there in that earlier photo.

 

[adma]

Another thing evident in that overhead view (relative to the Dan Solomon mural view) is that there's no more cars behind the Gooderham: Berczy Park is in utero...

 

[thecharioteer]

From the McCord Museum, Montreal, a glass lantern slide of the Old City Hall under construction:

Yonge Street:

 

[LowPolygon]

From the McCord Museum, Montreal, a glass lantern slide of the Old City Hall under construction:

Yonge Street:

those have got to be amongst the earliest colour images of the city extant. handpainted of course, but colour all the same! i love how some early 20th century images of Yonge Street make the city look bigger and denser than it is even now. what's that building visible in the lower left?

 

[thecharioteer]

Not sure what that building was, but here's the same view in 1922, probably taken from the roof of the Hotel Mossop (now the Hotel Victoria):

 

[Urban Shocker]

Interesting to see Old City Hall's original clay tile roof - so charmingly tinted blue/grey.

 

[adma]

Also interesting to note the metal balconies near the top of Traders Bank--no longer there, though the ghosts are visible in the brickwork...

 

[wwwebster]

what's that building visible in the lower left?

The Globe Printing Co. In the lower right of this image you can see the hotel and the turret in relation to each other:

https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/ser71/s0071_it7921.jpg

From the 1910 Goad's:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Toronto_1910_Atlas_Volume_1_Plate_6_Item_23.jpg

From the 1922 Might's Directory:

http://www.archive.org/stream/torontodirec192200midiuoft#page/592/mode/2up

 

[LowPolygon]

The Globe Printing Co. In the lower right of this image you can see the hotel and the turret in relation to each other:

https://gencat4.eloquent-systems.com/webcat/systems/toronto.arch/resource/ser71/s0071_it7921.jpg

From the 1910 Goad's:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Toronto_1910_Atlas_Volume_1_Plate_6_Item_23.jpg

From the 1922 Might's Directory:

http://www.archive.org/stream/torontodirec192200midiuoft#page/592/mode/2up

thank you!

 

[thecharioteer]

Another view:

 

[urbandreamer]

Nice to find my grandpa in that 1922 directory.

 

[Aaron]

"Honey, I've decided to book at the Mossop as I hear their fireproofing is superb!"

 

[LowPolygon]

"Honey, I've decided to book at the Mossop as I hear their fireproofing is superb!"

yes, "absolutely fireproof" is the early 20th century version of "free wi-fi".

but seriously: after the fire of 1904--this was something worth crowing about.