No Goldie, I didn't get a closeup of the poet at work, but she was using a portable typewriter; a smaller flatish thing. Very very banged up.

A good, no..great; summer solstice - June 21 - evening for me. A walk along Dundas West and coming across antique signage in two locations, at Ossington, and a few paces to the west. Something I always look out for. And a fortuitous chance encounter with 'the spontaneous prose store' lady...

wow Goldie, 21 Kingston Road.. it's like preserved in amber. I wonder if it sold in 2015. It wouldn't go cheap. And the new owner has a million dollar reno just to bring it up to a reasonable mod con spec.

Roncesvalles last night. Exception being the Pizza Pizza which was on west Queen West.

I really, like really, wonder if the theatre space at 285 Spadina is still intact. It was accessed up a flight of stairs, and being a large open multi-storey space may not have lent itself to partitioning. I was only there once - in the early 70s; it was derelict-ty even then. Someday I'll go...

lol,, I almost didn't get this.

Link to an Urban Toronto post with pictures of a long gone (Sai Woo) restaurant's menu. I hope I'm not wasting anyones time here. http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/miscellany-toronto-photographs-then-and-now.6947/page-109 Scroll down when you get to the link.

In that case, I can recommend Sky Dragon, Dim Sum King or Ho King. The first two are dingy enough to comfort the 70/80+ Toisanese age group. Ho King has the old North Americanized Cantonese classics that even my parents enjoy as they've been here since the 50s. The service at Ho King is...

Non Toronto subject material at the link. It's New York City related and is just a great great now and then video. https://thescene.com/watch/thenewyorker/eighty-years-of-new-york-city-then-and-now?source=player_scene_logo

Is anyone here into vintage bicycles? This years vintage bike show will be in Trinity Bellwoods park again. July, that's July 30th 10am to 5pm. Here's a link to last years show. http://www.communitybicyclenetwork.org/2016-toronto-vintage-bicycle-show/ The website hasn't been updated...

Re: the Dundas over Humber bridges: back on page 25/March 1 2009 of this thread I posted some pics of the still very much in good condition stone piers of the Old Dundas Street bridge.

Then. 1969. -ish? Going by the cars. Looking like a miniature Chicago. Mid Century and old. Looking N from the waterfront. We are between Bay and Yonge. I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember that the island ferry terminal of that day - a wooden structure that probably dated to the...

That's a lovely dog portrait; with the background all out of focus like that. :) Last night. More 'prowl by night'. 140 Yonge. Lovely reno. I walked over to the side entrance on the south side and saw they had uncovered an old office directory. Urban archaeology without having to...

Yes, agree, Markham/Agincourt for those who can't stand the hubbub of downtown or don't live centrally. CBC hipsters, if they are millenials, don't 'need' or can even be averse to the MSG, salt and oil of Cantonese food. I know my millenial kids don't even need their daily serving of rice...

Lee Garden on Spadina is closed. Caucasian clientle mostly. Strange. I never went in myself - I'm a CBC-er. Noble (on Dundas just west of Spadina) is closed. Client profile there included lots of older, much older, Toishanese immigrants whose grown children took them there. Funny to see 80...

I remember Swenson's too. They were there when the Eaton Centre opened. The Hot House at Front and Church have a buffet Wednesdays and Sundays. Not bad. Like better hotel dining room quality.

While I study and re-read 'steveintoronto's wax philosophical, :) here's my midnite camera history tour. Does anyone here like old cameras? I mean we already like old pictures... I know some of you personally and, related to our efforts here in this thread, know you collect old menus...

Why do we look at Then and Nows? Personal or historical connection? An interest in a time or era? Nostalgia? Why does a disappeared building or scene appeal to our senses. Is it Toronto centric? This last question I can answer personally. It doesn't have to be Toronto. It can be Then and...

237 and 239 Yonge. Respectively Le Strip and McDonalds, 1980s. This evening. 237 is now Payless shoes. 239 is the Stag shop. 241 bears reflection. Are the upper floors tenanted? If not, what a waste. It's a distinctive building in its original state. And a thought about colour film at...