[Mustapha]

"233 Midland street? I wonder if this street still exists; perhaps under a new name?" QUOTE. Mustapha.


Yes Sir!

Actually the caption is inkorecct:

Should be" MEDLAND STREET, (West Toronto), n from Humberside Av to Dundas, second w of Keele, ward 7."

The above is from the Might's City directory of 1910, with the ocupier being Ramshaw & Fleming, contrs. (My copy)

Frank C Campbell (TIN SHOP) was the business of record by 1912. (Might's Directory 1912, archive.org)


Regards,
J T

Thanks JT, sometimes the easiest solution is the one I least think of - a "typo" in the original description. I checked Google street view; neither structure is there anymore.

 

[Mustapha]

I wonder if this is Whipper Billy Watson? I saw him at the Gardens, along with Tiger Jeet Singh.

Don't know who this is though...

Great shoes on both of them. Footwear was classy in those days.

 

[colbyb]

A couple taken by my Grandfather....

VE Day 1945, Ticker Tape Celebrationby the Temple Building

 

[Anna]

I wonder if this is Whipper Billy Watson? Great shoes on both of them. Footwear was classy in those days.

Yes, and yes.

 

[thecharioteer]

A couple taken by my Grandfather....

Great pics, colbyb! There's an immediacy in family photos that are so appealing. This shot definitely looks like Bloor, just west of Bathurst, with the Alhambra Theatre. Looks like it's playing "Days of Glory", a 1944 war picture starring Gregory Peck. Here are two later pics:

1947:

1960:

 

[thecharioteer]

A couple taken by my Grandfather....

VE Day 1945, Ticker Tape Celebrationby the Temple Building

And further down Bay at King:

 

[wwwebster]

Beautiful shot of the second-generation TWW hydrant. Unfortunately, these models, and their earlier versions:

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...are pretty much at end-of-life and will soon be a true part of Lost Toronto.

 

[colbyb]

Great pics, colbyb! There's an immediacy in family photos that are so appealing. This shot definitely looks like Bloor, just west of Bathurst, with the Alhambra Theatre. Looks like it's playing "Days of Glory", a 1944 war picture starring Gregory Peck. Here are two later pics:

1947:

1960:

Thanks for that. I had wondered where that picture was taken. It makes sense as my grandparents (and my mother) were living on Palmerston a block south of Bloor in the mid 40's. I like the fact you can see a bottle of milk in hand in the door of the wagon.

 

[thecharioteer]

Here are two pics from my family album, taken by an uncle when there was still a Trinity College in Trinity-Bellwoods Park:

An Archives picture probably taken around the same time:

And from 1856:

Map of the College 1913:

 

[Urban Shocker]

Poor Kivas Tully, a major local architect with few surviving examples of his work left for us to enjoy. Some - the Custom House and Bank of Montreal buildings at Front and Yonge, for instance - were demolished by the late Victorians.

 

[thecharioteer]

Poor Kivas Tully, a major local architect with few surviving examples of his work left for us to enjoy. Some - the Custom House and Bank of Montreal buildings at Front and Yonge, for instance - were demolished by the late Victorians.

I agree. He certainly could tailor his style to his clients. Trinity College, however, shows the limitations of utilizing Gothic in a grand symmetrical ensemble. The Gothic style needs a lighter hand, more playfullness, a more idiosyncratic approach or it becomes dull and predictable, like in the current incarnation of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. I think both Tully's contemporary Frederick Cumberland in University College (1856-7) and EJ Lennox in the Old City Hall, (a generation later in 1899) understood this.

University College painting by Sir Edmund Walker 1859:

Birds-eye:

 

[Urban Shocker]

Yes, the picturesque assemblage of diverse forms at University College works nicely to break up the massiveness of the place. Still, some large Tudor homes were quite symmetrical - Hardwick Hall, Burghley House and Audley End - and I think Tully's Trinity College had a feeling of lightness to it ( all those slim minaret-like spires, lanterns, chimneys and pointed bays ) that's in the same spirit.

 

[LowPolygon]

a few others of Trinity park

 

[LowPolygon]

I wonder if this is Whipper Billy Watson? I saw him at the Gardens, along with Tiger Jeet Singh.

yikes! there's a name i haven't heard in a while...bringing back dim childhood memories--not sure how fond they are (rather more on the terrifying end of the scale i think) of Saturday afternoons with Haystack Calhoun and Andre The Giant....

 

[LowPolygon]

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