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- Thread starter Edward Skira
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Edward
Senior Member
Look at all the empty land by the water.
toto
Active Member
A lost opportunity for a beautiful waterfront. Especially if those long pier buildings were still there, instead of all those mid 70's condos.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
The Lakeshore Expressway (Gardiner Expressway) took up a few of those blocks as well.
What amazes me is the Imperial Oil building was already built and it looks like the biggest office building in the city at the time. What amazes is putting the biggest at St Clair.
Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
Criminy. Imagine if that grass was still there! And that boulevard lined with trees leading down to the foot of Bay! That's one thing our waterfront sorely needs: a nice north-south axis that draws pedestrians down from Union to the waterfront.
HHC
Active Member
Makes me want to bash my head into the wall looking at the Toronto star building and how great it was.
Damn the 60's were terrible.
Damn the 60's were terrible.
easymorningrebel
New Member
Toronto circa 1960 looks kinda like modern day pittsburgh or cleveland
jetsbackincanada
Banned
Morgan Edge
New Member
Old Star Building
I completely agree! It's the loss of that building more then any of the others (and there's so many to choose from) that really boils my blood. The first thing I do when viewing old 30's-60's photos of downtown is look for a glimpse of the Star.
In my fantasy Toronto the downtown core looks pretty much as it does in this photo, only with the more modern office towers of the financial district rising up behind the old skyline instead of boxing it in, or obliterating it altogether... and of course the Toronto Star still operates out of that terrific building.
I completely agree! It's the loss of that building more then any of the others (and there's so many to choose from) that really boils my blood. The first thing I do when viewing old 30's-60's photos of downtown is look for a glimpse of the Star.
In my fantasy Toronto the downtown core looks pretty much as it does in this photo, only with the more modern office towers of the financial district rising up behind the old skyline instead of boxing it in, or obliterating it altogether... and of course the Toronto Star still operates out of that terrific building.