Goldie
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Let's not forget our beautiful "Flatiron" Building
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Or Osgoode hall.
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Let's not forget our beautiful "Flatiron" Building
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Or Osgoode hall.
Mustapha
Senior Member
For awhile there in the 60s and 70s, they were doing very well. There signage was everywhere...
August 4 addition.
Richmond looking E from just E of Bay. Yonge in the distance.
condovo
Senior Member
Great pair. The Bay looks well enough but alas the skyline of Confederation Life has been all but obliterated. Perhaps a generous benefactor will emerge one day and have it restored to its former glory.
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
No photo gallery of the evolution of the south west corner of Yonge and Adelaide would be complete without a picture of the Canada Trust building as it was built - before the overhang was eliminated ( about 15 years ago? ). Think one was posted somewhere earlier on this thread.
Mustapha
Senior Member
As a sidebar to discussions of the SW corner or Adelaide and Yonge, it's interesting to compare the old Goad Atlas maps to today's, which illustrate the impact of land assembly on built-form (or the other way around!). This block, which once contained both the Manning Arcade and the Grand Opera, has very little left of its 19C past (except for the ghost of the Grand Opera Lane):
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I'm thinking this facade (below) now hosting a DACKS shoe store on Yonge is one of only two survivors left on the Yonge>Adelaide>King>Bay block in your old map. The other being the old 'Fairweathers' - now a Moores menswear store (not shown in either picture).
August 5 addition.
Yonge looking NW towards Adelaide.
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Anna
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I think I saw someone on the forum refer to this as a façadectomy
Edward
Senior Member
Didn't realize that the Yonge Street side was like that.
NomoreaTorontonian
Active Member
I'm thinking this facade (below) now hosting a DACKS shoe store on Yonge is one of only two survivors left on the Yonge>Adelaide>King>Bay block in your old map. The other being the old 'Fairweathers' - now a Moores menswear store (not shown in either picture).
August 5 addition.
Yonge looking NW towards Adelaide.
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In the 1861 census Edward Dack appeared as a bootmaker aged 42 with his business at 73 King Street West. (I think there was a photgraph that included the signage in Then and Now about a month ago.)
150 years is a long time for a store to be in business. I wonder how many families and outside businesses have owned it?
August 5 addition.
Yonge looking NW towards Adelaide.
In the 1861 census Edward Dack appeared as a bootmaker aged 42 with his business at 73 King Street West. (I think there was a photgraph that included the signage in Then and Now about a month ago.)
150 years is a long time for a store to be in business. I wonder how many families and outside businesses have owned it?
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Will their new HIPSTER DACK logo do the job, I wonder? Their Brookfield store closed a few months ago, and I think the one in the Richmond Adelaide Centre is history. I bought a pair of their Bison leather shoes in the early '80s and wore them forever; they were as tough as cast iron and almost as heavy.
street meet
New Member
I find it interesting how much the Scotia bank logo has changed. I barely recognized it in that "then" photo of Yonge looking NW towards Adelaide.
Ps, big fan of this thread Mustapha.
Ps, big fan of this thread Mustapha.
Goldie
Senior Member
remnants of Toronto at the Guild
I hope all regulars to this thread are aware of the beautiful remnants (artifacts) of old Toronto artichecture that have been presrved on the grounds of the Guild Inn, Scarborough.
I'm particularly fond of the remains of the Temple Building on which the name is still visible.
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I hope all regulars to this thread are aware of the beautiful remnants (artifacts) of old Toronto artichecture that have been presrved on the grounds of the Guild Inn, Scarborough.
I'm particularly fond of the remains of the Temple Building on which the name is still visible.
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Anth
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Mustapha
Senior Member
Thanks!
Yes, the old corporate logos... when I see some of them, I realize I had forgotten they ever existed.
August 6 addition.
Jarvis looking N towards Front.
The various cooked items inside the St. Lawrence Market - sausages on a bun, fish 'n chips, baked goods, veal sandwiches - are wonderful aren't they? The fish and chip and cherry danish lunch I had - guessing about 1000 calories - took an hour to counteract on the Goodlife elliptical machine. Then I was hungry again.
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OttoSchloss
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It's interesting how the post modern era has effectively sterilized so many of these streetscapes.
JasonParis
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Wasn't the advertising on that bridge something like a 10-year deal in order to help finance the bridge over Jarvis. If so, shouldn't it be ending soon?