Vintage Toronto

[unassuming]

Harbourfront Centre on Instagram: "CN Tower? At Harbourfront Centre? That’s right! Did you know that in March of 1975, the top portion of the CN Tower antenna was put on display at Harbourfront Centre before it was installed? Torontonians were encouraged to come down and sign the 32 foot segment with an estimated 7,000 people, including bus-loads of school children, getting the honour of signing their name on the city’s iconic tower! As part of our 50th anniversary, we’re looking back at some of Harbourfront Centre’s defining moments and memories, and we’re so proud to have a played a small part in the @cntower’s legacy ❤️ [Image descriptions: Three photos showing the construction and placement of the CN Tower.] #PlacesThatMakeUs"

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[Robert Mugabe]

I was also there with to witness the Sikorsky put the antennae in place, what a spectacle. Before the antennae was put atop the tower, my younger sister signed her name on it, as school children were invited to the base of the tower to autograph it.

I watched that also. Parked directly under it one Sunday morning, I think it was. Sitting in my car eating a blueberry yogurt and drinking a half litre of milk to ease the hangover from the night before.

 

[jeff2]

I was also there with to witness the Sikorsky put the antennae in place, what a spectacle. Before the antennae was put atop the tower, my younger sister signed her name on it, as school children were invited to the base of the tower to autograph it.

In grade school we were asked to draw things that would be put in a time capsule in the CN Tower.
By the way, don't know how they worked without a security belt.

 

[shack]

In grade school we were asked to draw things that would be put in a time capsule in the CN Tower.
By the way, don't know how they worked without a security belt.

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Good balance.

 

[unassuming]

Gone are the days of pretty much non existent health and safety in the workplace .
Surprisingly there was only one fatality during construction of the tower, and he wasn't a construction worker, Jack Ashton, a consultant for the concrete inspection company. He was hit on the head by a falling piece of plywood and his neck broke and he died on impact.

 

[mandrill]

~1937, Eglinton Avenue West looking east at Eglinton Park. The vet clinic is still there.

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Can't quite see Morley S. Bedford's funeral parlour, just outside the right side of the frame!

 

[mandrill]

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Bloor Street West, Toronto, on a pleasant day during the 1960s.

They didn't extend the subway from Keele to Kipling until the 70's, so the street cars are still present west of Keele.

 

[countd]

After watching the Leafs playoffs against Boston, it brought back memories going back to the early60s, when the league had only 6 teams. Toronto would play away games on Sundays which were no televised, however, in Parkdale a theatre, Odeon Parkdale located on Queen St. near Roncesvalles showed their hockey games on their large screen, charging $2. The place was always full. It was the greatest deal at a movie theatre.



not on TV

Also the Westwood Theatre at Six points. Some the game where Pat Quinn destroyed Bobby Orr and all hell broke loose!

 

[jeff2]

Also the Westwood Theatre at Six points. Some the game where Pat Quinn destroyed Bobby Orr and all hell broke loose!

Westwood. Good old central Etobicoke.

 

[onomatopoeia]

In grade school we were asked to draw things that would be put in a time capsule in the CN Tower.
By the way, don't know how they worked without a security belt.

Those sort of jobs were often given to Natives. As a group, they were less inclined to be acrophobic.

 

[anon1]

The Humber Hump.


It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...

according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"

Bumping the Humber hump. Robert Balen works on 30 tonne steel beams for a new bridge over the Humber River, which will replace the westbound lanes of (...)

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[bazokajoe]

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Yonge and Eglinton in the 1960s

Looks like the traffic was bad back then to.

 

[eddie kerr]

Looks like the traffic was bad back then to.

Being an owner of a courier company in Toronto back in the day, nothing back then was ever as bad as it is today. A BBC Newscast announced last year that Toronto was now the 3rd most congested city on the planet following London England and Dublin, and it will not get any better because of too many people and cars and no new roads. One reason why more people are moving to other locations

 

[unassuming]

The Humber Hump.

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It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...

according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"

Bumping the Humber hump. Robert Balen works on 30 tonne steel beams for a new bridge over the Humber River, which will replace the westbound lanes of (...)

digitalarchive.tpl.ca

As a child , used to tell my dad to drive faster as we approached the hump!

 

[underground]

As a child , used to tell my dad to drive faster as we approached the hump!

They used to call it the Elvis Bump for some reason....

 

[countd]

I grew up in the Alderwood area of south Etobicoke. Anyone from the environs?

 

[RZG]

The Humber Hump.

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It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...

according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"

Bumping the Humber hump. Robert Balen works on 30 tonne steel beams for a new bridge over the Humber River, which will replace the westbound lanes of (...)

digitalarchive.tpl.ca

I used to wheelie my 750 Honda off that, no such thing as stunt driving then.

 

[The Oracle]

The view facing West towards Queen and Yonge in 1944

 

[The Oracle]

Yorkville in the 1970s.

 

[The Oracle]

Yonge street in 1972.