Spadina and St. Andrew/Then and Now

From the S/W corner of St. Andrew and Spadina looking N/E in September of 1938.
There are some interesting magazines on display including a couple of comic books.
Action Comics # 1 was published in June of 1938 and recently sold at auction for 1.5 million dollars. Was a copy purchased here?
2010.
Action #1.

Old House on Spadina

This old house at 233 Spadina was built in the 1880's for Mr. Huson Murray and was used as a funeral home for a few years in the 1910's.

It's one of the last houses left on Spadina and a reminder of the street's former residential past.

Now it's just a mess.

Queen and Spadina/ Then and Now Part 2

Looking south west down Spadina across queen in 1921. At this time Spadina was still very much a residential street but business had started to move in.

Today

Queen and Spadina/ Then and Now

Here's a shot looking south east on Spadina across queen Street taken in 1920 or so. The Church, St. Margarets was converted into a factory in the late 1910's.
2010, the church is still here with a new Art Deco facade and has been re-purposed as a clothing store. A look down the alley reveals the old church windows, and remnants of the bell tower.
An earlier photo with St Margaret's on the left and in the foreground the entrance to the public washrooms that were located in the centre median.
It must have been a comfort to know back then that despite not having a cell phone, Blackberry or I-Pod that you could still be confident that there was a public washroom available should the need arise. Sometimes you have to go.

Dundas and Spadina/ Then and Now

The N/E corner of Dundas and Spadina in 1921, the home of Dr. Moorehead will soon be demolished to make way for the Standard theatre.

Looking north across Dundas sometime in the late 1960's. The car in the foreground is a post 1965 Corvair. The Victory Theatre, formerly The Standard Theatre opened in 1921 and was one of the finest Yiddish theatres in North America. In 1935 it was renamed The Strand and re-opened as a movie house and was again renamed The Victory after the war. It continued to operate as a burlesque house until 1975.

Today.
The Standard Theatre.
Another shot of the Victory from an excellent site, Silent Toronto.