[bigmac1x]

OK here's a challenge for all you Jarvis St afficianados ... The Blake House ...

... would anyone have early pictures of the Blake House at 449 Jarvis St. I've looked everywhere! I can't believe a house of this historical significance was not photographed many times once completed in 1891(?).
Thanks,
Stephen MacDonald

Then. 266 Jarvis Street. c1907. Victor Home for Young Women. Another wwwebster sourced picture.

Now. April 2011.

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[DSC]

I have just found out about this City project, if others already know I'm sorry to repeat the info. http://citiesintime.ca/toronto/

 

[adma]

Is that the original location of Lichtman's? Really miss that store.

Probably. But what I'd really like to know--is that a glass monitor in the upper floor? Might there have been some studio space (photographer, perhaps) up there?

 

[Mustapha]

Then and Now for December 7, 2012.




Then. Church and Adelaide looking W along Adelaide. Aug. 8, 1911.

Now. July 2012. I do believe the only building left over from 1911 is the building on the left of both pictures that presently houses the 'Terroni' restaurant. It was formerly the Adelaide Street Courthouse; built in 1851.

 

[Mustapha]

Bank robbery investigation at Kingston Rd. and Balsam 1971

Good grief; as a bit of a police car buff I'd forgotten about those two door sedans.

 

[Mustapha]

Is that the original location of Lichtman's? Really miss that store.

Same here. The periodicals section of the chain stores - Indigo, etc., just isn't the same.

 

[Mustapha]

A lot of homes in this area are Toronto Community Housing corp owned. City houses bought up in advance of the Gardiner expressway build. When the easterly expansion was quashed, the city rented them out.

Thanks mattelderca. That explains a lot of what I've seen in this area. I used to live across from a TCHC home and the maintenance was always late or deferred forever.

 

[thecharioteer]

Then and Now for December 5, 2012.






Bonus pictures:

Lower left hand corner, the house of Arthur Peuchen, who survived the sinking of the Titanic (http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/major-peuchens-predicament.html), seen below just prior to demolition:

 

[Goldie]

More from my recent tour of the 'Beaches'

The Fox Cinema 1934 (opened in 1914)

The Fox Cinema, 2236 Queen St. E. ---- 2012

 

[Goldie]

Queen St. E. at Kenilworth 1910 and 2012

 

[Mississauga Slim]

What I find remarkable from early 20th century photos is that, evidently, almost as soon as electricity was introduced, the infrastructure for it appeared practically overnight. And then, for the next 100 years, it remained almost exactly the same.

 

[Mustapha]

Lower left hand corner, the house of Arthur Peuchen, who survived the sinking of the Titanic (http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/major-peuchens-predicament.html), seen below just prior to demolition:

Fascinating article, thecharioteer. The Titanic's Toronto connection through Major Peuchen made that monument-to-human-folly a fascinating local biographical aspect. By the way, one of the links to your link says that he lived at 105 Roxborough Dr. in his last years, which still exists.

The most recent book to come out is 'Titanic - First Accounts', which was just published by Penguin. The author's grandfather survived the sinking.

 

[Mustapha]

... would anyone have early pictures of the Blake House at 449 Jarvis St. I've looked everywhere! I can't believe a house of this historical significance was not photographed many times once completed in 1891(?).
Thanks,
Stephen MacDonald

Then. 266 Jarvis Street. c1907. Victor Home for Young Women. Another wwwebster sourced picture.

Now. April 2011.

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Hello bigmac1x and welcome,

I hope one of the keener researchers here finds your early picture. At least Blake house is still with us... and you can even have a meal there.

 

[Mustapha]

That's Rossin House on the right in thecharioteer's picture.

Our Goldie wandered by during this blocks demolition with a camera in hand.

Check out page 316 of this thread for a picture of a safe lying in the rubble.

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showth...en-and-Now?p=483053&highlight=safe#post483053

 

[Mustapha]

What I find remarkable from early 20th century photos is that, evidently, almost as soon as electricity was introduced, the infrastructure for it appeared practically overnight. And then, for the next 100 years, it remained almost exactly the same.

The infrastructure is long lived isn't it? I suppose Torontonians have become inured to this forest of poles and wires. 'Inured' might be a poor choice of words here - for me - it doesn't bother me in the least.