Reminiscing Of Old Toronto -pictures

[Claudia Love]

Toronto in 1958

I wasn't born til the late 70s



Peppio’s restaurant at Dupont and Davenport in 1964.



The “Toronto's Best Restaurant Race” in Yorkville in 1982 raising money for charity.


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Downtown facing east in 1964


Yonge street in 1974

Did you ever get your hair cut at the house of lords?


Do you remember Red subway cars ? i do

Captain John's restaurant sinking in 1981.

 

[onomatopoeia]

East side of Parliament Street, between Gerrard St East and Spruce, above the phone store, about twenty feet above sidewalk level.

The bullshit story I tell, that most people believe:

In 1885, when Toronto was best known for distilled liquor, Parliament Street was the edge of town, and most of the business establishments on the street were saloons and brothels. Any 'fresh off the boat' new Canadians who weren't white and Protestant were considered to be 'Lepers', in the Biblical sense, just above the Irish Catholics on the West side of Parliament St, in Cabbagetown.

The stone mason's apprentice who carved the letters didn't know how to read, so he misspelled 'Leper'. Inhabitants of what is now Regent Park would have lived in a shanty town of makeshift shacks and tents, getting their drinking water by bucket from the nearby Don River, in which they would also have bathed and done their laundry during the warm weather months.

 

[Ponderling]

I went to an estate auction house I frequented prior to COVID, and bought a pile of old photo negatives for $5.
I have photo darkroom in the basement, and have printed some of them.

Quite a lot of neat images.

One set of a trip someone took on the train from Toronto to Vancouver in Nov 1913.
Glass plate negs for a house downtown, with family at the side in some.

Looks like the shooter was a property manager for Standard Bank. Mid 20's banks in small town Ontario.
Then Standard bought a bank out west, and so the shooter took the train and took shots of towns, which in that day were all along the railway heading west to scope for new bank sites.

My plan as a big retirement road trip out west and take sets of the prints of the out west images and try to figure where they were, and drop sets to historical societies I find along the way,

As a separate buy have also have a bunch of say 400 kodachrome slides of summer family road trips taken between 1956-66 all over north america.

 

[Ponderling]

Another neat site is Retrontario.

Lots of fun old TV commercials from 70 and 80's

 

[Darts]

I took this pic myself in 1907.

"But the Island used to be home to numerous hotels, and by the 1870s Hanlan’s Point had become such a popular weekend getaway destination for Victorian Torontonians that it was dubbed the “Coney Island of Canada,” complete with a vaudeville theatre, dance halls and a large amusement park."

 

[spankingman]

I used to love COLES huge Book Store and SAM the Record Man. Used to get my Drum Corps and Military Band records there

 

[Darts]

 

[y2kmark]

Do you have one from the 1950s showing a pedestrian being given the right of way?...

 

[Anbarandy]

I took this pic myself in 1907.

"But the Island used to be home to numerous hotels, and by the 1870s Hanlan’s Point had become such a popular weekend getaway destination for Victorian Torontonians that it was dubbed the “Coney Island of Canada,” complete with a vaudeville theatre, dance halls and a large amusement park."
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You had a keen photog eye back then Dartsy.

Also, it's quite obvious you showed JUST SAY NO TO DOUGS that photo of Canada's Coeny Island, vaudeville strip shows, bordellos, freak shows and all, because it appears he has used it as the template for his brand new, corporate for profit ONLY, Ontario 'It's Really Not Your Place At All' Place!

 

[mandrill]

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[Darts]

 

[Darts]

I took this pic myself in 1912,

Hanlan's Point Stadium - Wikipedia

 

[Darts]

Kew Beach (1918) in the Beach/Beaches. I think the ethnicity of the Beach was or still is primarily Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

 

[Darts]

Toronto bus terminal. Now all the buses, the pimps and the runaway girls are all gone. I passed by recently, it is now home to the homeless.

 

[mandrill]

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[eddie kerr]

Toronto in 1958

I wasn't born til the late 70s



Peppio’s restaurant at Dupont and Davenport in 1964.



The “Toronto's Best Restaurant Race” in Yorkville in 1982 raising money for charity.


web img

Downtown facing east in 1964


Yonge street in 1974

Did you ever get your hair cut at the house of lords?


Do you remember Red subway cars ? i do

Captain John's restaurant sinking in 1981.

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Toronto in 1958

I wasn't born til the late 70s



Peppio’s restaurant at Dupont and Davenport in 1964.



The “Toronto's Best Restaurant Race” in Yorkville in 1982 raising money for charity.


web img

Downtown facing east in 1964


Yonge street in 1974

Did you ever get your hair cut at the house of lords?


Do you remember Red subway cars ? i do

Captain John's restaurant sinking in 1981.

Was too expensive and the food was lousy. It deserved to sink.

 

[eddie kerr]

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Darts,you are actually older than me, but not by much.

 

[eddie kerr]

Kew Beach (1918) in the Beach/Beaches. I think the ethnicity of the Beach was or still is primarily Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
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Grew up near there, went to Kew Beach School which was before Lakeshore Rd. expanded to Woodbine Ave. and before the swimming pool was built. Was a very wooded area just west of the boardwalk that extended east to the end of Queen St. Just a great area to live.

 

[Darts]

Hey Eddie, there was, maybe still is, a dark side to the Beach/Beaches that I did not mention in my post.

 

[Darts]

Here's a pic (took it myself) of my first house purchased in 1915 for the outrageous price of $3,200. Had to take in boarders to pay the taxes.