FAC33
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That's the book on the demolition of the Woolworth building (where Trump now stands). I own a copy. It was specifically torn down for parking, which was supposedly needed more at the time than a low-rise Moderne building.
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That's the book on the demolition of the Woolworth building (where Trump now stands). I own a copy. It was specifically torn down for parking, which was supposedly needed more at the time than a low-rise Moderne building.
thecharioteer
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Thanks to Vintage Toronto facebookFirst photo i have ever seen of the old Four Seasons when it was Hyatt.
Great find, gabe! It also captures Avenue Road pre-Hazelton Lanes, and the old apartment building on Cumberland east of the hotel.
LowPolygon
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the Toronto Skyline here is rather fanciful. its clearly derived from the real thing, but enhanced in such a way as to boost the sense of a 'big city' vista, especially on the western edge with Avenue Road seeming to be a thoroughfare of glistening lights and imaginary towers.
thecharioteer
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Haven't read the book, but wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the land's best interim use was as a parking lot, instead of the existing building, until it was sold for redevelopment (which came about a few years later in 2000 when the land was sold for the first incarnation of the Ritz-Carlton?).
CityPlaceN1
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The property became expendable when Walmart took over and moved the headquarters, which had been in the Woolworth building, to Mississauga.
AlbertHWagstaff
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Much like the Bay-Wellington building discussed recently, it had the appearance of a run-down building in need of renovation, and housing "The Bargain Shop" on the ground floor, which replaced the old Woolworth store when Wal-Mart took over, didn't help. With better space available around the core at the time (1995-96) I doubt anyone was calling up to rent space there, so down it came. The Herbert House building on the north-east corner of Bay & Adelaide did undergo a renovation around that time, but in the end, it was consumed by the new Bay-Adelaide Centre. Until the Woolworth building was demolished, Bay & Adelaide was one of a few intersections in the financial district which looked essentially unchanged from decades past on all four corners.
thecharioteer
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thecharioteer
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Bloor/Yonge subway 1960's:
https://www.facebook.com/VintageTor...41132104.59461.256041347799190&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/VintageTor...41132104.59461.256041347799190&type=3&theater
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CityPlaceN1
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Very cool drawing. Would love to see a printed version of it.
Koolgreen
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nice avatar
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CityPlaceN1
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What a shame about Bata!
Davidackerman
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great pic
can332
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Thanks to Vintage Toronto facebook
"Period" dining rooms seemed to be all the rage in the 1960s. A lot of the postcards from that era feature really over-the-top dining room decor.
http://worldlycanuck.blogspot.ca
thecharioteer
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Ya think?
George's Italian Villa (http://chuckmanothercollection.blogspot.ca/2012/11/postcard-toronto-georges-italian-villa.html):
Old Angelo's: (http://chuckmanothercollection.blogspot.ca/2012/11/postcard-toronto-old-angelos-restaurant.html);
Westbury Hotel Polo Bar (http://chuckmanothercollection.blogspot.ca/2012/07/postcard-toronto-westbury-hotel-475_18.html):
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Blovertis
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Great pictures. You could do a whole thread on Toronto's fine dining scene in the Sixties and Seventies. It's interesting that "good" restaurants generally had a well-upholstered, clubby gentleman's feel about them well into the Eighties, despite modernism having taken over architecture decades before.
Although I do remember Noodles on Bay Street having a contemporary look.
Although I do remember Noodles on Bay Street having a contemporary look.