The Tasty Restaurant at Eastern and Booth has been closed for as long as I can remember. But the old sign remains along with some very valuable Coke discs..
These Coke button signs sell for $700-$800 depending on condition.Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tasty Restaurant on Eastern Ave.
The Tasty Restaurant at Eastern and Booth has been closed for as long as I can remember. But the old sign remains along with some very valuable Coke discs..These Coke button signs sell for $700-$800 depending on condition.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Dunn and Springhurst/Then and Now
Another interesting photo from the archives. This is Dunn Ave in Parkdale just south of Springhurst in 1912 or so before the train tracks were lowered below grade.
This photo was taken 100 years later (2011) and surprisingly the little corner store is still a corner store. My grandparent's house was just south of the tracks and was demolished to make way for the Gardiner Expressway in the mid 50's.
An aerial shot with the demolished houses. The corner store is outlined in red.The Yonge Street Pedestrian Mall
There's a great article here about the Yonge Street Pedestrian Mall of the early 1970's.
Another postcard from Chuckman's.Sunday, March 20, 2011
Yonge Street/ Rock n' Roll in the 1960's
Just a reminder that Bravo is airing a documentary on the Yonge Street music scene of the 1960's Monday Tuesday and Wednesday March 21/22/23 at 10:00 pm.
Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories EP: 1 (1955-1960) (PG)
Travel back to sleepy and dull Toronto in the 1950's, where they rolled up the sidewalks after dark. There was no rock 'n roll music until that fateful night when Ronnie Hawkins & Levon Helm pulled up in their car from Arkansas, popped the trunk and let that Rock 'n Roll out. Features interviews with Robbie Robertson, Ronnie Hawkins, Cathy Young, Grant Smith, Stan Endersby and many more key people in the music scene.
Postcards courtesy of the Chuckman Collection.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Palace Street School/Now and Then
The Palace Street School at Front and Cherry Street (1858) is the oldest multi-room school house in Toronto. At the time Cherry Street was called Palace Street and this area was considered "downtown". Fern Street in Parkdale was called Cherry Street.
The red square outlines the original school and the blue outline a later addition known as the Palace Street Hotel.
A well preserved interior classroom window.
The boys entrance.
This view shows the Hotel addition that for many years was known as the Canary Restaurant. These buildings are all owned by the Provincial Government and will be used in the upcoming Pan Am Games.
Looking into the empty hotel a safe can be seen at the back. Legend has it that bootleg whiskey was stored here during prohibition, before being smuggled south of the border. For more detailed information on the Palace Street School click here.
The Canary.
This school on Alice Street, built in 1862, is strikingly similar in design to the Palace School.Alice Street is no more but it did run east west between Yonge and Terauley (Bay) south of Agnes street (now Dundas).
Monday, March 14, 2011
St. Lawrence Antique Market- Sundays
Pretty in Pink.
A very Springlike theme this week with pink and baby blue.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Harbour Commission Building/Then and Now
Another example of how much of the lakefront is reclaimed land. The Harbour Commission Building was originally right on the shoreline.
Seen from Queen's Quay, 2010.Dundas and Sheridan/Then and Now
An early shot of the S/E corner of Dundas and Sheridan when it was the Brockton Hotel. A little further east was the Brockton Tavern, also demolished.This was still the village of Brockton as the sign at the side indicates..
2010.Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Bay and Edward/Then and Now
The N/E corner of Bay and Edward as seen in 1928.
The same corner in 2010.Bay and Edward/Then and Now
The Ford Hotel stood on the N/E corner of Bay and Dundas. Built in 1928 it was demolished in 1973 and replaced by the Atrium on Bay. In it's later years, The Toronto Star called it the "rendezvous of choice for couples pursuing an illicit affair
The south side of Edward Street just east of Bay in 1937. The old Ford Hotel can be seen behind.
2010.Yonge Street/ Rock n' Roll
There's some good footage of the Edison (Empress) Hotel in the third installment.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Springhurst and Jameson/Then and Now
Looking west on Springhurst across Jameson in 1926.
Surprisingly, the house on the N/W corner has survived. In fact, I think it's the only house left on Jameson.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Easy Rider-The Toronto Connection.
Easy Rider with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, 1969.
In the summer of 1967 Peter Fonda was in Toronto to promote his latest film, The Trip.
While staying at the Seaway Towers Motel on the Lakeshore, he stayed up all night and wrote the script for Easy Rider. This story was told to me and others by Mr. Fonda himself.
The original covered entranceway.
The original Seaway Towers was built in 1954 and considered very modern at the time.
The pool area.
A period postcard.
A view of the Seaway Motel looking east from the Gardiner in the 1960's.
Vintage period postcards from Chuckman's
A view of the Seaway Motel looking east from the Gardiner in the 1960's.
Vintage period postcards from Chuckman's
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Ghosted Coca Cola Sign on Queen West
An old ghosted sign on the side of a building along Queen Street.H.J. Lavelle Wines.
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