Then. Heads up. Feeling wordy today. A 1907 pic from the TPL archives. St. Philips Church. We are looking SE at the SW corner of Dundas and Spadina. It's a mystery to me why the photographer of the time would set up in all probability a heavy view camera - at night, in the winter, to...

August 17, 1991. Murder investigation. Dundas W just west of Beverley, south side. Still a cold case. https://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/case/57/1991 Today.

"After a pen ink drawing by CW Jefferys ca 1888 reproduced in Evening Telegram series 'Landmarks of Toronto' 10 Aug 1889. Queen St W and Soho NE corner. Today.

More Jims Restaurant.

Jim's Restaurant 897 Queen East. Then. Summer of 2015. The pic is black and white because it was taken by black and white film - a side hobby of mine. Now. Today. A nice old example of the sign painters art blinks in the sunlight. Its fate - soon to be entombed in darkness again.

I went to the Toronto Archives site and typed 'Chinatown' into the search box. I had done that before. This time, the picture below came up. Its description: 'VJ Holiday, Chinatown, reading news. August 15, 1945.' The Registry building is in the distance, so this is the west side of...

The sensory experience of those old subway cars. Windows that you, yes you, could open. The noise in the tunnels, especially the Union station bend. If there were any vibration bushings, they were long gone by the 70s.

I took these pics in 2008 of the 1927 tunnel linking Union Station and the Royal York hotel. I walked thru Union Station tonite and went looking for again for this; the original 'proto' segment of the present PATH system. I couldn't find the entrance; asked at the security booth in the...

JT.,,, Felt? It's almost time to pull out the straw boater. Is there even an 'official' day one can wear summer cover? ['Cover' - military speak for cap. :) ]

Not a Then and Now but a "Old beside New". A personal photo project. Here's a couple I like. Thanks for looking.

Then and Now. 200 Bloor West. Then. September 21, 2012. Now. April 1, 2017. I miss the McDonalds on the right of the frame.

My camera came across this piece of the old North St. Lawrence Market, now exposed to the light of day after a deep slumber. I guess it'll have to pass for something like Toronto's equivalent of London Wall. :)

And, looking north west from the same spot a moment later.

Then and Now. Then. 1980-ish? Now. March 29, 2017. Gould street, a few feet east of Yonge, looking north east at the Sam's store entrance off same. I'd forgotten Sam's had a "L" shaped store - with the "main" entrance on Yonge north of Gould. I don't miss Sam's. Never had the pocket...

Thank you Koolgreen for that info. Non-Toronto content at the link below. It's a 72 year old Chinese restaurant in Portland Oregon that has kept all their past menus, digitized them and put them up at their website. A virtual historical walk through one Chinese restaurant's history. Quite...

Then. 1979. Elizabeth Street at Foster Place. Kung Fu club. The club has a name but I can't read Chinese. :( The Chinatown that thrived here from the 1920s until the early 80s wasn't much to look at but it had the familiar feel of a large village. This picture is part of the Lawren Harris...

I know what you're sayin, I make 'mini-pilgrimages' like this to the places of my youth too. :)

'AOV' = Adult Only Video? Yes it does, I looked it up. Very interesting how they took down those AOV signs and the overhang only recently. Many tourists staying at the Chelsea hotel walk up and down this stretch of Yonge. They can't be impressed. And I still miss the Worlds Biggest Bookstore...

Then '373 Yonge, Rio Theatre. c. 1970-1981', according to the online Toronto Archives. Now. Evening of July 18, 2016. The lens on my camera wasn't wide enough to replicate the Then picture, so I had to stand off to the side a bit and shoot at an angle to get it all to fit in. So, in...

Yes, I'm been doing this for awhile now, perhaps a year or so. I'll add a description so people don't click through and see non-Toronto material. One reason I add these links is that in my opinion only, the really compelling pictures at the online Toronto Archives have already been used in...