Victoria St and Vicinity

[LowPolygon]

Dundas and Bond St. Present day site of Yonge Dundas Square. Ugh.

Victoria and Dundas Square, 1923

Imperial Public Library on Dundas used to be Imperial Hotel

Lovely little building at Dundas and Bond. This is now defaced by Hakim Optical signage.

Northwest corner of Victoria and Shuter. Now the site of Pantages Tower

Northeast corner of Queen and Victoria. Now a parking lot for St. Michael's Hospital

Victoria looking south from Queen.

Victoria looking north from Richmond

Richmond looking west from Victoria.

Southwest corner of Richmond and Victoria. Now home to a green glass pink granite pomo clunker. Far left you can see the Arcade building.

Northeast corner of Lombard and Victoria. Sadly shuttered at the moment.

Victoria between Richmond and Lombard. Also shuttered at the moment.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Nice. Thanks for the photos.

 

[Mustapha]

thedeepend;

One of the themes that runs through your posts is the old long gone hotels; I love looking at that kind of photo, thanks.

-Moose

 

[LowPolygon]

thedeepend;

One of the themes that runs through your posts is the old long gone hotels; I love looking at that kind of photo, thanks.

-Moose

thank you...
i suppose i am quite nostalgic by nature!

i do find myself fascinated with the idea of long departed people that briefly inhabited hotel rooms that are themselves no longer...

more generally, old photographs are profound evidence of 'that-has-been', in the way they inexorably signal the passage of time.

 

[Mot]

Thanks for the pics, I also enjoy historical photos amd imagining what it was like to be there at that time.

I am looking down at part of one of those building right now.

 

[Bruno Republic]

Just an FYI: the parking garage on the northeast corner of Victoria and Shuter has been demolished. A new building for the hospital is currently under construction.

 

[JasonParis]

Oh we've known about that 3.5 years 'round here.

http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=543&highlight=Research+Centre