Thanks Mustapha. You're challenging me here with a vertical and horizontal shot to work with.
Thanks Andrew. I wonder whatever became of the little girl? She would be in her late 60s now.
I have to insert some friends into now pics, 'Waldo' style.. or, myself, Alfred Hitchcock style.
Here's one of my favourites (attached).
The photographer, in 1912, must have been standing at the very edge if the Don Valley ravine.
You can imagine how quiet the 'Danforth' must have been prior to the viaduct.
My grandfather walked over it on opening day and he told me there was no fuss like it until the CN tower, for him anyways.
Thanks Mustapha! I will try to add to this thread as much as I can as well, do some cross posting. Amazing stuff! Keep it up.....
Nice to see you and Goldie here on a regular basis. Thank YOU.
June 17 addition. Thanks adma and rusty for id'ing this location a couple months ago. In the old picture they are digging the Parkdale Pumping Station, which is still there - pumping.
The Now picture ... I did NOT take the pic from the middle of the rail corridor as the photog did in the Then pic, hence you can't see the choochoo tracks. Those GO trains come pounding down this line and my hearing and reflexes aren't what they used to be. It would have been a less than senseless death.
And, the old walkup apartment house only appears to be farther away: I was shooting wide angle.
This sign is sited where the fourplex was in the Then pic.
