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More Lost Toronto in colour
- Thread starter LowPolygon
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LowPolygon
Senior Member
No kidding:
yikes--those are ALWAYS the most disturbing shots of postwar Toronto out there...especially since those streets used to look like this...
No. 27-29 Wellington Street, east of Scott Street (Royal Insurance Company Building) - 1919:
Wellington and Scott streets, northwest corner - 1919:
Ontario Bank, 34 Wellington Street East at Scott Street - [ca. 1909]
(i know we've down this road before with this particular neck of the Toronto woods: urban value of Berczy Park etc....so call me masochistic....)
colbyb
New Member
Military parade on University Avenue. Taken by my grandfather in front of Princess Margaret hospital looking south. 1950's?
Juan_Lennon416
Senior Member
Very nice photos colbyb!
Towered
Senior Member
St. Lawrence could have been our "little London" had it been preserved. As nice as the area is today, it would have been infinitely better had the horrid, insensitive blockbusting of the 50's to the 70's never occurred.
colbyb
New Member
A few shots of Elm Street, between Yonge and Bay. Late 70's to late 80's. I miss the Papaya Hut where Pizza Pizza is now.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
A Citroën SM--Very Rare!!
paraone
Active Member
WOW I never felt old till I saw those Yonge st shots, thats the Yonge I remember as a kid, how distant it feels now.
And those shots of St. Lawrence are truly horrific, what the area could really have been. The city fathers of the era, if still alive should hang their heads in shame.
And those shots of St. Lawrence are truly horrific, what the area could really have been. The city fathers of the era, if still alive should hang their heads in shame.
adma
Superstar
Ah, City Nights posters. Real relics of the pre-alt-weekly/cityblog era...
LowPolygon
Senior Member
i was thinking that as well!
talk about "pre-digital": weekly event listings encased in brutalist monoliths---boy that's some old school analog thing they got going on there....
adma
Superstar
Although for what they are, said monoliths are elegant enough--definite "street furniture with pretensions" (and it also seems, an early addressing of the flyers-on-poles issue)
LowPolygon
Senior Member
no i like them too...i also remember them being handy things to duck behind to 'light a smoke' on windy days, back in the days when people did such things....
colbyb
New Member
Looking north west from Front St and Market St. The large parking lot is now the Market Square condominium development. That was completed in 1984, so this is late 1970's/very early 80's?
Mustapha
Senior Member
Yes, that is a very cool looking car.
Looking north west from Front St and Market St. The large parking lot is now the Market Square condominium development. That was completed in 1984, so this is late 1970's/very early 80's?
A great view of my future home!