adma
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Did the old Yonge/Heath picture have anything to do with subway construction? (This is where it would have diagonally crossed Yonge.)
Was that pop bottle showing in any of those photos of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Spadina & Bloor) a few weeks ago? I wonder if the whole collection was taken about 1961-62 when the Bloor subway was still at the blueprint stage?
(I was working at an office on that corner way back then.)
Did the old Yonge/Heath picture have anything to do with subway construction? (This is where it would have diagonally crossed Yonge.)
This pic wasn't one of the ones that were filed at the Archives under subway construction but that is a pile driver so I'm guessing something heavy duty is going on underground...
January 8 addition:
Then: Queen street a few feet to the east of York street looking north.
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I wondered where Bernard Cairns Limited was after stumbling upon yet another picture of the building - but don't you mean Richmond Street?
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Series 381 is titled "Yonge Street Subway Series 1949-1955", so think Adma is right.
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I wondered where Bernard Cairns Limited was after stumbling upon yet another picture of the building - but don't you mean Richmond Street?
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January 7 addition.
Then: Yonge street looking S from Yorkminster Park church. Heath street in the distance. Marquees for the Hollywood and Hyland theatres dimly in the distance.
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Now: October 2009. I should have stood in the middle of the street for this but for the traffic.
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January 9 addition:
Now: December 2009. Sorry, I'm not quite as tall as the original photographer...![]()