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  1. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Wellesley west of Yonge 1975: 2023 (pic by Rascacielo):
  2. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Wellesley & St. Nicholas 1972: 2023 (pic by Rascacielo in the 8 Wellesley thread):
  3. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    NW corner of Wellesley and Sherbourne (only the Victorian wall remains): 1950's: 1970's: 2022:
  4. thecharioteer

    Toronto Toronto | St Michael's Hospital Emergency Department Redevelopment | 29.76m | 6s | Unity Health Toronto | NORR

    And then some hospitals just entirely vanish, like Wellesley Hospital (with only the Victorian fencing remaining: 1950's: 1972: 2022:
  5. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Yonge and St. Joseph: 1990's: 2016: 2022:
  6. thecharioteer

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Photos taken at the CIBC branch at197 Yonge (now Massey Tower) in 1964 following a bank robbery. In the Toronto Telegram Archives:
  7. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    The worst example from the 80's has to be 25 Grenville:
  8. thecharioteer

    Toronto Toronto | 69 Yonge | 89.45m | 21s | H&R REIT | PARTISANS

    Three other early conversions from the 90's were: 111 Merton: 135 Maitland: 980 Yonge:
  9. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    The 1889 Romanesque-revival heritage facade on York was actually disassembled and rebuilt in the current location in the mid-1980's. Another view of the corner from 1972:
  10. thecharioteer

    Toronto Toronto | 145 St George | 95.64m | 28s | Tenblock | a—A

    All good except the awkward top with its 1980's vibe evoking Petro-Canada Centre Calgary, Madison Centre, 5650 Yonge. Unfortunate when sun/shadow studies result in such compromised architecture.
  11. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Old City Hall:
  12. thecharioteer

    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    I agree 100% with this approach that Exhibition Place and Ontario Place should be looked at holistically particularly in the context of public/private. As the mayoralty candidates line up with their pearl-clutching commitment to public uses for OP, Council was silent on the construction of a...
  13. thecharioteer

    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    From the Archives, the Cayuga coming into port:
  14. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Very interesting! Can see an example of this on the stretch of St. Clair east of Spadina (pity about the trees for the road widening): 1911: 1914:
  15. thecharioteer

    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Howard Street houses 1913, prior to the construction of Bloor Street east of Sherbourne (as can be seen in the 1910 Goad map):

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