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Toronto Architecture from the 1940's and 1950's

150 Bridgeland Avenue, North York, 1960 (from Chuckman's Toronto Postcards site). Checking it out on Google Earth, looks like the wonderful canopy is gone and the windows have been changed.

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Great shots. The picture with the streetcars is either 1952 or 1953 as this was the temporary Harbour Yard that was used to store Yonge St. streetcars while the Eglinton carhouse was partly demolished for subway construction.
 
The Princess Hotel for ladies, 244 Church Street, 1950's:

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Though Parkin, among others, also (and independently of Hunstanton) followed that ultra-puristic International Style path (which, in the end, probably drew more from Mies at IIT)
 
does anyone know who designed Thistletown? someone mentioned they thought it might be an early Macy DuBois.
 

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