UtakataNoAnnex
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Thankfully they've nearly obliterated all that surface parking lot heaven that replaced that.
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Automation Gallery
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Yeah, it's approx. 40 storys up right now, 30 to go
ushahid
Senior Member
i thought it was 65s. 40+30=70s ?
Towered
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Those particular pictures get me every time. Quite frankly, they're shocking. I'm actually surprised the city didn't decide to indiscriminantly destroy the flatiron building as well while they were at it.
Wow, that @AG guy uses the word "approx." and he gets away with weird addition Scot-free…
…no, wait line umpire @ushahid has called that "out."
Will @AG challenge the call? If he does, how with the chair umpire rule? Stay tuned!
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Northern Light
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Excellent post.
A couple of questions and observations based on the pics above:
1) I having trouble placing this building w/the smokestack, its well east of Jarvis, south of Front, not sure if its east of Sherbourne. Anyone have thoughts?
2) Look at something that had survived to this point, but would be lost not too many years later, St. Lawrence Market North:
3) Look at the size of the rail yard along the south side of the Esplanade. Its truly difficult to comprehend how much of DT was railway. West of Union many of us remember, The CN tower essentially surrounded by tracks.
Fewer remember the rail yard where Metro Hall and Roy Thomson Hall now stand.
But this one too!
I now return this thread from tangential area history to our regularly scheduled problematic math!
Note that all photos above are taken subset, zoomed crops of the photo from Toronto Archives posted by Condovo
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ushahid
Senior Member
That's hilarious
Mercenary
Active Member
Late 1960s till mid 1980's was a terrible time for cities. Post war suburbanization had hollowed cites out and rise of cars required ramming expressways through the urban core which devastated the surrounding areas and more cars required more areas be turned into parking lot.
Glad since the 1990's, this gentrification began in Toronto and hope to be complete by the 2030's in which all surface level parking spots are going to be re-purposed.
Glad since the 1990's, this gentrification began in Toronto and hope to be complete by the 2030's in which all surface level parking spots are going to be re-purposed.
evandyk
Senior Member
I think the smokestack must be on the west side of Berkeley St?
ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
There were knitting mills down there
Northern Light
Superstar
Excellent work Chester....................
You put me on to the name of the complex; much of which is still standing, and I was familiar with..........
But the smokestack was removed at some point.
Here it is, still on the building in the early 70s
From: https://berkeleycastle.ca/our-history/1983-present/
evandyk
Senior Member
I recently found this very informative article about this history of the area:
The Past, Present and Future of Front and Sherbourne
Two new condo buildings at 154 and 177 Front St E in Toronto compel the author to research the Time and Space of Front and Sherbourne.
torontoguardian.com
cc46
Active Member
There needs to be reverence to the history that established the area, the time, the importance to the growth of the city to where we are now.
unrealestate
Active Member
it's actually astonishing how cohesive this neighborhood has become given what it looked like 50 years ago
brianyyz
Active Member
Helps that is was rebuilt under a single design framework Vs the piecemeal we get these days. Pretty good urban renewal with politicians who had guts to work to get it right vs lapdogs to developers.