[Doppleganger]

Great photos, I reposted one with some historical shots at http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/miscellany-toronto-photographs-then-and-now.6947/page-903

Here is 1913 - those 'boxes' are stairs going to underground public lavatories!

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Wow...I didn't know Toronto had these underground restrooms that far back! I wonder what their fate was? Were they completely removed/filled in, or does some remnant of them remain underground waiting for some future urban archeologist to uncover?

 

[skycandy]

I heard the Shoppers was acquired by Loblaws.

 

[innsertnamehere]

every shoppers is owned by loblaws.. so yea, it was. Along with every other one in the country.

 

[skycandy]

Looking like a million bucks.

Slightly lower left of centre...

Great to see night lighting...

Some smaller office space towards south side.

Open concept - north side.

 

[Skeezix]

Christ - even when it is not a tenant, the specter of Shoppers Drug Mart still haunts new downtown retail frontage, seemingly threatening to take this space too, and to cover all the windows with film of its stock people photos. So menacing.

 

[slicecom]

Looking like a million bucks.

I see what you did there...

 

[achender]

Queen st frontage, from today.

 

[condovo]

Excellent. And thankfully it's not token façadism.

 

[Benito]

I love the Bowling sign above the door in that photo.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Christ - even when it is not a tenant, the specter of Shoppers Drug Mart still haunts new downtown retail frontage, seemingly threatening to take this space too, and to cover all the windows with film of its stock people photos. So menacing.

The Shoppers at that location may not be there much longer - plans are afoot for that corner of the intersection.

 

[Edward Skira]

The Shoppers at that location may not be there much longer - plans are afoot for that corner of the intersection.

Yep that corner has been assembled. All but the gas station from what I hear.

 

[innsertnamehere]

HOME condos 2?

 

[Edward Skira]

It wasn't GG when I heard about the assembly.

 

[AlbertC]

Phew...Corktown might collapse if they take another giant mass like home condos.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Coming off of the richmond-adeliade ramps will feel very different in a few years with Home and that block. Hope the gas station goes too - it makes the initial stretch of Richmond feel really suburban.