Thank YOU, Ricky! ;)

Slightly less astonishing but still pretty cool. :)

Absolutely not. :)

It's funny. I know there's no accounting for taste, and there's really no arguing people out of what they like or don't like, but I think they made the right call here. None of the other designs seems iconic to me the way our current city hall does. Maybe it's just because it's what I'm used to...

This shot reminds me of the farm on Eglinton at the end of McLaughlin in Mississauga under the shadow of North America's Ugliest City Hall. :)

Whoa! I'd never realized BCE Place enclosed a street! Astonishing contrast of photos!

Funny you should ask that... James V. Salmon, from the endpiece of his book. And, for good measure, the aforementioned Mr. Edward "Ted" S. Chirnside, friend and photographic peer of James Salmon, and also a great benefactor of us via his contribution to the Toronto Public Library.

Photo taken in 1960, about at year and a half after the death of James V. Salmon, by his friend Ted Chirnside, another hero of mid-20th century Toronto photography who deserves to be celebrated by us. If I remember correctly, Mrs. Chirnside is the brunette second from the left. James Salmon's...

Thank you. I'm glad to be of service. :) I have a couple of more things to add.

Damn. I've been mulling over starting a thread about James Salmon for a while now. I've been a literal follower of his work for years now. Some of the photos here celebrate his work downtown but I think the real glory he left us is the work he did in the north end of town, on the cusp of...

VERY good description. That modern view is unspeakably depressing. :(

This time when I went back the interface was different... slightly more user-friendly, and while it's still hard to figure out what you're actually going to get, boy, you weren't kidding! These things are fantastic. The detail is astonishing!

How does this work? Every time I click on a layer, I get this kind of guff: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /datapub/toronto/ValleyLands1937_42/s0097_fl0013_id0007.zip on this server.

The interesting thing for me is that this is the road I drove down to buy my first "real" modern computer, a 486, in 1994. It was long before I moved to the vicinity, and much longer still before I ever learned that had once been the site of a drive-in, and the entrance to it, too. This pair of...

What I really enjoy about this comparison is that there don't seem to be streetcar tracks in the 1911 view, and there are in the 2012 view. Usually these comparison views show just the reverse. It's a refreshing change. :)

I have a friend who lives in East York who's fond of remarking how the houses in the neighbourhood kind of grew up piecemeal from the truck farms that used to be in the area, and boy, it doesn't get much plainer than the comparison shown here. Delightful to see some of the same houses still on...

It's strange! Toronto somehow seems like a busier place in this view, with a plethora of similarly-sized business towers, than it does today with so many skyscrapers jutting up above it all. I can't really explain that impression... :)

Interesting! I wonder if they'd know anything about the place...

Found it! This was taken in the same location as the infrared shot of the Humber I posted a few days ago. If the site was northeast of there, that nicely lines up with the bridge abutments you found. I'll bet my boots (now that winter might FINALLY be over) that your discovery once had something...