More Lost Toronto in colour

[thecharioteer]

Yonge north of Wellington, 1953:

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4501.shtml

Bay Street 1953:

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/streetcar-4706-26.jpg

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/streetcar-4705-58.jpg

Church & Front:

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/streetcar-4000-28.jpg

Wellington looking west from Church:

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/streetcar-4000-93.jpg

Front, east of Scott:

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/streetcar-4003-78.jpg

 

[thecharioteer]

A few more from the transit.toronto website:

Bay Street (early 1950's):

Front Street:

Queen & Simcoe, 1973:

Queen & Spadina, 1973:



King & Church, 1972:



Queen, west of Yonge, 1968:



McCaul, 1965:

 

[enelemcee]

Love the Queen/Spadina shot! I miss the Lite-Bite Coffee Shop. That was the family hangout after the Saturday matinees @ the Horseshoe every week.

 

[thecharioteer]

King and Church 1965:

 

[adma]

If that's a young woman to the left, she seems to be pretty Diana Rigg-stylish for 1965--or at least, the pic makes her look that way...

 

[Uncle Teddy]

A shame about that building on the northwest corner of Church and King. Played off nicely against King James.

 

[LowPolygon]

If that's a young woman to the left, she seems to be pretty Diana Rigg-stylish for 1965--or at least, the pic makes her look that way...

she's definitely in beatnik mode, with her all black outfit and headscarf; a look which was, in its way, as linked to a late 50s hipster milieu as much as the modish Avenger, but of course the Beatle beats are absolutely au courant for 1965...

 

[Uncle Teddy]

I wonder what she is doing today. Is she even alive? That thought always goes through my head when looking at older pictures like this.

 

[thecharioteer]

Pre-Sheraton Centre:

 

[thecharioteer]

A somewhat grittier Toronto in the 1960's and 70's (from the Naylor fonds):

 

[chriskayTO]

"ACME CRANE RENTALS". Makes me think of a Roadrunner & Wyle E. Coyote cartoon.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"ACME CRANE RENTALS". Makes me think of . . .
RUNNYMEDE CONSTRUCTION
YORK STEEL . . .

Regards,
J T

 

[adma]

Re the Bank of Upper Canada: I thought I remembered a Public Optical sign facing down Adelaide, but never knew it was a block *east* of Jarvis...

 

[junctionist]

It's hard to believe that St. Lawrence became such a dump. You can tell from the built form in the photos (before much it was demolished) that it was like the city's first real CBD with the all the most important institutions and commercial buildings. Apparently by the 1960s, the kind of retail that you could find across from our grandest cathedral was a store to buy conveyor belts. No wonder people wanted to tear down much of it for something they perceived as more urbane (an arts district). In Montreal, you can see the first CBD in the old town, with the modern skyscraper CBD a little further from the river. Most of it is intact. The progression is interesting and makes the city seem like it has centuries of history.

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

"ACME CRANE RENTALS". Makes me think of . . .
RUNNYMEDE CONSTRUCTION
YORK STEEL . . .

Regards,
J T

O tanenbaum, O tanenbaum...