CN Tower Bracket Construction & Lift - April to August 1974 April through August 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the construction and raising of the 6 segments (“cagesâ€) which would ultimately form the “working platform†at the 1120ft level. A well publicized and publicly...

Graham Bezant Tribute - Feb 1973 For those who remember the early 1970's, there were two well known Toronto Star photographers who "competed" with each other for the best photos -- Graham Bezant & Boris Spremo . Through the help of another well known Toronto SUN photographer of the CN Tower, RC...

CN Tower - The “Working Platform†- Aug to Oct 1974 August 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the construction of the CN Tower’s “working platformâ€. For those who saw and experienced the construction of the tower, this working platform was one of the iconic fixtures of the tower...

The “Crown†Construction for the CN Tower – June 1974 June 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the development of the “Crown†construction work. Being at the very top of the tower, at the 1740ft level, many people in downtown Toronto came to see this work from a distance but few, or no...

CN Tower Bracket Construction & Lift - April to August 1974 April through August 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the construction and raising of the 6 segments (“cagesâ€) which would ultimately form the “working platform†at the 1120ft level. A well publicized and publicly...

CN Tower: Slipform Rising - June 26 1973 to final completion on February 22 1974 February 22 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the last bucket of concrete poured to complete the CN Tower's main shaft on February 22 1974 at 7:32am in pea-soup fog after a night of cold and driving rain. The...

CN Tower - Slipform Rising - June 26 1973 to final completion on February 22 1974 February 22 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the last bucket of concrete poured to complete the CN Tower's main shaft on February 22 1974 at 7:32am in pea-soup fog after a night of cold and driving rain. The...

I am always asked "What do you know about this little store?" when we walk past it. All I can say is "I think it's been there for as long as I can recall". Since you've mentioned it, do you know much about its past and current history? I always wonder why it hasn't been squeezed out of the mall...

It was dead center in the lower part of today's off-ramp, as seen in my 1967 vs. 2014 image. If you know that interchange as well as I do, from the 1940's onwards, you'd hit yourself 10 times over by what they did to the area, in terms of razing everything. There's little relation to what you...

Bert's Turkey Palace - Hwy 27 & Richview Side Rd, 1961 vs. 2014 For the last 45 years I have been actively searching for any photo of "Bert's Turkey Palace", which was located at the north-east corner of the old Hwy 27 & Richview Side Road intersection. As part of my ongoing historical research...

I'm sure I could find a suiting remark to make, especially in light of the current -30C weather but I'll leave that to others and Rob Ford to make :-) Just for the record, I'll chime in with my own comments. WWW-II put a damper on urban growth which then re-started a few years later after the...

OMG, I was going to hold my tongue and not mention the same comment, after seeing the CityTV building photo. I'll amend a short comment -- I used to buy stamps at that shop around 1974-1976, and on weekend's at the "Old City Hall" (second floor, King St. location) in the 1970's. Of the very few...

Yes indeed. Cloverdale Mall grew in stages. The mall first opened in Nov 15 1956, probably a few months after this photo was taken. You will also notice, in the upper right corner of my photo, that the NE corner of the mall is missing as well. If you want to see "exactly" what hadn't been built...

I don't wish to clog up this "before and after" thread with useless images, but let me provide a quick answer. While looking through my images I came across this aerial photo which was taken just after my prior posting, when the Dundas/Hwy27 interchange had just completed (1956-ish). What this...

Thanks for making this comment. Normally I would have stated the same thing, but lately I had taken notice that some of my "public links" needed a FB login first before becoming accessible from my Flickr pages. I know this doesn't make sense but I thought that might be the reason why the...

Just to ensure we are using the same terminology, "FB" is a short form for Facebook. It's the #1 world-wide social media outlet, now growing more towards "older people" connections. You would go to www.facebook.com and register/login. Thereafter you can enter my URLs from above to get to my Hwy...

Except for Longbranch, Kingsway, etc., Etobicoke was pretty barren up to 1953. The Silverthornes and 2 or 3 other families, owned most of middle Etobicoke, from Queen St. on the south up to Richview Side Rd. There is some interesting chronicles of the ladies' group talking about "How the city is...

Oh my, you are right. My hard core interest is the historical recreation of the construction of Hwy 27 after 1945, but mostly from 1953 through to 1969. I have reams of photos which someday I'll get online. But your note above just made me aware of another "new fact" to me, that they built the...

For the proper perspective, everything north of the QEW at Hwy 27 was the "sticks", a really rural, farming area of Etobicoke, back in the day. Its urbanization didn't start up in earnest until the mid 1950s, with most being completed by the mid and late 1960s. Its sort of like going out to the...

Hwy 27 & 5, 1953 vs 2013 (Cloverdale Mall) My core areas of historical research are in middle Etobicoke (1940's to 1969), the Etobicoke Flats, and of course my long term CN Tower construction documentation project. Having been inspired by a posting in FB this evening, I through I'd re-post some...