Downtown Toronto in 1985. credit: Toronto Star
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Downtown Toronto in 1985. credit: Toronto Star
Bloor and Bathurst facing West down Bloor in the 1960s. Note the South West corner was not Honest Ed’s yet. Honest Ed’s was solely the block at Bloor and Markham.
The High Park Mineral Baths along Bloor St. W., North side, East of Parkview Gardens in 1954. Removed to make way for the Bloor Danforth subway line in the 1960s
That building with the Woolworths store recently(last year or two) finished a big heritage restoration. Walk by it a lot. I believe the lady who owned it, gifted it way back to U of T on the condition that it never be sold to the Eatons because she hated the Eatons. So, when property was bought up and demolished in the early seventies for the Eaton Centre that corner building stayed.
The Rex Hotel on Queen in 1972. Have you been? credit: City of Toronto Archives
Construction of Ontario Place in 1970. Built as "A place for the People". credit: Toronto Star
The opening of Nathan Phillips Square in September, 1965.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at Varsity Stadium in 1974.
A 3 year old Maple Leaf Gardens along Carlton in 1934. c
Robinson dairy farm in the southwest quadrant of Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue in 1957. Currently Centerpoint Mall.
I was there on a Labour Day Monday. It hadn't started raining yet. That was when Jesse Colin Young started singing "Light Shine". It then continued to rain non-stop through the The Band's set and then all through CSNY's set. What a concert.
I'm the one with the long hair.
I was standing across the street listening to it. Too cheap to buy a ticket.
Crowds attempting to see Elvis Presley at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1957
Look at the movie that is showing at the Imperial.
The old Toronto Star building at 80 King Street West in the 1960s. This Art Deco building stood there from 1929-1972 before being demolished to make way for The First Canadian Place building. The building was the inspiration for Superman comic’s “The Daily Planet” building. Cartoonist, Joe Shuster, worked at the Star as a child as a paperboy. In the comic series the “Daily Planet” was originally named the “Daily Star” after this same paper. Ernest Hemingway, while working at the Star, wrote an article entitled “The Super-man Myth” in 1921, albeit in the previous Star building.
Fans waiting to go into a Beatles concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in August, 1965. c/o Toronto Star Archives
The view looking North up Yonge from just North of Queen on January 12, 192
