[Goldie]

View attachment 43550

Sorry for the confusion regarding that bridge.
I should have mentioned this addition to the original caption on the 'Then' photo - " towards Glen Rd. south bridge."

 

[r937]

found it
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showth...ve-Images-of-Lost-Toronto?p=678543#post678543

thank you so much

 

[Anna]

thank you so much

Inform the Archives!

 

[Goldie]

 

[Mustapha]

Then. July 7 1979. 44 Yonge Street.

Now. February 2015.

 

[junctionist]

That looks like great restoration work.

 

[railmus]

That looks like great restoration work.

I agree! Google Earth gives us a full view!

 

[fugaziosbourne]

I never say this, but the after photo is an improvement.

 

[Mustapha]

Then. June 7, 1981. Looking W along Queen W from St. Patricks Mt.

Now. February 2015.

 

[adma]

Looks like a fresh streetcar track rebuild in the "then" photo (when did they start using concrete bases? was it for the pending CLRV cars?)

 

[AlbertHWagstaff]

Looks like a fresh streetcar track rebuild in the "then" photo (when did they start using concrete bases? was it for the pending CLRV cars?)

They actually started using concrete as early as 1969. Before that it was mostly asphalt replacing, or over top of the granite setts. The trackwork done in the 1980s was notoriously cheap (just new rails on top of old or untreated ties) and was totally falling apart by the late 1990s and early 2000s.

 

[r937]

A then-and-now photo tour of Yonge Street, Eglinton and other corners of Midtown Toronto

 

[Koolgreen]

They actually started using concrete as early as 1969. Before that it was mostly asphalt replacing, or over top of the granite setts. The trackwork done in the 1980s was notoriously cheap (just new rails on top of old or untreated ties) and was totally falling apart by the late 1990s and early 2000s.

as a child, I thought those were just normal bricks between the tracks. I wonder, if when they were removed, if the granite was re used for something else or just disposed of????

 

[AlbertHWagstaff]

as a child, I thought those were just normal bricks between the tracks. I wonder, if when they were removed, if the granite was re used for something else or just disposed of????

I think landscapers ended up with some of them. I've seen some walkways and driveways in Rosedale paved with granite setts. They've turned up in other places as well, such as the retaining wall along the south-west corner of the Manulife Centre at Bay & Charles. There are also some used around the east side of Nathan Phillips Square along the edge at Bay St. If you look for them you'll probably see them here and there around the city.

 

[Edward]

Ah the Beverly Tavern. Lost quite a few brain cells there.