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Traffic on Bay St. 1964 TPL
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Traffic on Bay St. 1964 TPL
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Notice the TCA (Trans Canada Airlines) logo on the left--a year later it became Air Canada, and changed it livery to this...
 
The portico triggered my memory. At least they kept a piece of it. Rogers now? I can't recall what it used to be in the recent past.
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The mens' lavatory at Toronto & Adelaide Streets, circa 1900. With a tower lovingly crafted from corrugated iron, men descended down stairs to use the facilities below. The facilities were kept by an attendant, a former waiter (TPL).
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Toronto waterfront 1922, 1926 and 1930

Looking north west towards York St. bridge 1922 TPL
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Foot of Yonge St., from south of Esplanade 1926 TPL
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Foot of Bay St. 1930 TPL
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Confederation Life building is there, but Massey Hall isn't. My guess is 1893.

Wouldn't that pale gabled thing to the right of Confederation Life be Massey Hall?

Also of note: the party-wall back of EJ Lennox's long-gone proto-skyscraper Beard Building at King & Jarvis. (Back when I first saw this image in one of Mike Filey's early books, I was wondering what that tall thing was.)
 

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