clash
New Member
This isn't the most exciting one ever and I could have done much better to match the angles, but here's 55 Strachan, the former John B Smith and Sons lumber company, looking north up Strachan.
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Mustapha
Senior Member
Good grief clash. Have you been saving these up for us?
I think I can take a sabbatical.
I think I can take a sabbatical.
clash
New Member
Good grief clash. Have you been saving these up for us?
I think I can take a sabbatical.
*laugh*
No! Please don't!
Honest. That's all I got. For now.
See, I had this idea a couple of weeks ago to take old pictures from the Toronto archives, find the location of where it was taken, and then take a picture of the same location as it stands now...and yeah. Let's just say I found this thread and it saved me a lot of work.
Oh! Unless these count? (How old do the "then" pictures have to be, exactly?)
AR Williams:
East down East Liberty Street, the former Irwin Toy Factory on the left:
(Then pictures originally found here: http://www.cydonian.com/photos/cat12.htm)
adma
Superstar
As one of the rare sorts to be a guarded skeptic of the de-wiring of Dundas in the Junction, I can see your opinion on the uprise...
adma
Superstar
I think I found it
There's something about fur storage and Moderne streamlining that goes together like corned beef and cabbage (also cf. Creeds at Dav + Bedford)
adma
Superstar
The Ritholz Optical sign in that picture is a cliche come true.
Anna
Active Member
adma
Superstar
Okay, now, my eyes went all Tex Avery. Are you satisfied?
androiduk
Senior Member
^ What an odd, incongruous block that is. I love the ground floor but a flat roof on top would have made this block spectacular.
adma
Superstar
Or to take a counter-view, more cliche Moderne. Somehow, it seems even more extraordinary with the pre-Confederation roughcast workers' row aesthetic intact up above. And what motivated *everything* in that row to go orgasmically Moderne? It's like each is trying to one-up the other. One wonders if there was a common landlord and what said character was like...
Anna
Active Member
junctionist
Senior Member
When were the 'acorns' designed and first installed? Though there's not much ornamentation, they don't strike me as modernist.
adma
Superstar
A year earlier
It looks like the roof is being re-shingled after the de-gabling(?).
Ah, so that's even weirder--it was Victorian, not neo-Georgian. The reno made the old parts look even older than they were (in a stucco = roughcast way)
nstuch
Active Member
interesting story in the Globe. the then and now are only 25 years apart
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/bay-street-then-and-now/article1187922/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/bay-street-then-and-now/article1187922/
Benc7
Active Member
Excellent! Thanks for the heads-up. I'm one of those people who needs numbered photgraphs in order to understand (and remember) how much this city has changed over the past couple of decades.