Mustapha
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The bridge in the left middle distance is the John Street bridge. The entrance to Rogers Skydome is there now.
May 28 addition.
Bloor West and ?
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The bridge in the left middle distance is the John Street bridge. The entrance to Rogers Skydome is there now.
May 28 addition.
Bloor West and ?
Earlscourt_Lad
Active Member
Note the Metropolitan stores signage still exists above the Shopper's Drug Mart.
adma
Superstar
Even cooler is the stainless steel LOANS sign that (hopefully) still exists across the street.
Is the newer vantage point further east than the old one?
Is the newer vantage point further east than the old one?
NomoreaTorontonian
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I like the uniform it took to make out a parking ticket in the 1950s.
Earlscourt_Lad
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I think the newer version would have been taken in front of the Kenwood, as the Metropolitan was immediately to the east of the theatre.
FYI, courtesy of the NY Times:
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters may not be the best of the "Bowery Boys" series, but it was unquestionably the most profitable. It all begins when Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) try to gain permission to use a local vacant lot for baseball games. The boys make a trip to the mansion of the lot's owners, the sinister Gravesend family. It soon develops that all the Gravesends are looney, and none loonier than mad scientists Derek (John Dehner) and Anton (Lloyd Corrigan). Derek wants to transfer Sach's brain (what there is of it) to the body of a gorilla, while Anton wants to use Sach's graymatter for his robot. Meanwhile, Amelia Gravesend (Ellen Corby) makes plans to feed Slip to her carnivorous plant. Along the way, Sach is periodically transformed into a hideous beast, terrifying one and all, including his would-be rescuers Louie (Bernard Gorcey), Butch (Bennie Bartlett) and Chuck (David Condon). There isn't a single gag or situation in Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters that wasn't used earlier by the Three Stooges or Abbott & Costello, but that doesn't make the film any less hilarious. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Dovercourt Park
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Bloor West and ?
It's the Kenwood Theatre located on the north side of Bloor Street just east of Dovercourt Road. I watched many Saturday afternoon matinees there for a nickel paid by my paper route income. The talented Van Evera family lived just north of Bloor on Dovercourt and once in a while did an act on the stage while the film was being changed. I remember their act as a kid with a 1 cent bag of popcorn on my lap (now $6 at Rogers Centre)....and young Billie singing and dancing....later to become Billy Van who hooked up with a neighbourhood kid ...Jack Duffy. Both long gone I think?
Keep those photos coming
Mustapha
Senior Member
Yes, the new vantage point is right in front of the disappeared "Kenwood" - now the storefront with the "... Sistering" sign.
Lately they've taken to wearing bulletproof vests as part of the uniform...
Watched the Three Stooges in reruns as a kid. Couldn't stomach them now. Rewatched some of a 'Get Smart' episode; can't figure out the attraction in my childhood.
Hello, welcome and thanks Dovercourt Park. In my nabe in my time the afternoon matinees had gone up to 35cents. Popcorn a dime.
Jack Duffy... remember him and Dinah Christie on 'Party Game', which I watched when sick and home from school.. broadcast at 4pm I think.
Still a great area, Dovercourt and Bloor.
May 29 addition.
King and Sherbourne SE corner.
adma
Superstar
Not too long gone. Billy Van died in 2003; Jack Duffy only in the past year or so...
Mustapha
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May 30 addition.
Bay and Grosvenor.
Bay and Grosvenor.
Blovertis
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Just a small amount of change there.
NomoreaTorontonian
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In 1900, when she was 20, my grandmother lived in the house on the right with the sun shining on the bay window. As an old lady she always said she was going "down street" when she meant going downtown. Many years after her death I discovered that she worked at Eaton's when she lived on St Vincent Street. I stood on that corner looking south and realized why.
The church was the original Knox College.
The church was the original Knox College.
Mustapha
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Thanks for this NomoreaTorontonian. Through the eyes and voices of those who have lived and are now gone. I close my eyes and think of my grandfather sometimes; it brings him back. Through him I know that he cycled miles to pick up collars for laundering. 5 cents each. When men might have worn a shirt for a few days but changed a detachable starched collar daily. On Broadview Av there is a 1920s era walkup apartment at the location of the laundry where he worked.
May 31 addition.
NW corner Bay and Breadalbane. Do any UTers know the origin of this street name? Its unique for sure. Yes, I know it's Scottish; I Googled. I want to know how the street got its name.
The school house was located where the steps are (behind the taxi). Needless to say, Breadalbane no longer runs W of Bay.
NomoreaTorontonian
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Breadalbane says that it is a large tract of land in Perthshire, Scotland--better than remembering that the Earl of Breadalbane was the Campbell who got the Macdonalds out of Glencoe.
Breadalbane Street, Toronto, was named before 1861, possibly at the same time that Knox College developed in the area.
Breadalbane Street, Toronto, was named before 1861, possibly at the same time that Knox College developed in the area.
Mustapha
Senior Member
June 1 addition.
Dundas looking W from Bay.
Dundas looking W from Bay.
Blovertis
Active Member
Two comments:
1. The arrival of main street modernism in Toronto, a building now crying out to be put out of its misery.
2. Why can't you find chop suey on menus anymore (much less advertised on neon signs)?
1. The arrival of main street modernism in Toronto, a building now crying out to be put out of its misery.
2. Why can't you find chop suey on menus anymore (much less advertised on neon signs)?