lost toronto

Looking north up Roncesvalles across Queen in 1909. A nice shot from the 1950's of this intersection affectionately known as Five Corne...

The N/E corner sometime in the 1970's. There's a hint of the old Joy gas station on the right. Today. Another shot of the gas stati...

The north side of Queen West just east of Ossington on a summer's day in 1919. Ninety years later and not too much has changed. Another ...

The West Toronto Public Library on Annette circa 1914 . 2010. An almost identical twin was also built on Queen just west of Dovercourt. It...

I owned this car in the mid 1980's and sold it. It was restored by Jim Diell of the Corvair Club and he recently sent me these photos.

Queen Hardware, not sure of the date.

Club One Two located at 14 Adelaide East sometime in the mid 1950's. Today...

Shea's was demolished in 1956 to make room for the new City Hall. From Heritage Toronto: Shea's Hippodrome was one of the greatest v...

The S/E corner in the mid 1950's. 2010.

Looking south on Bay towards Queen in the early 1960's. This entire section of Queen would soon be demolished to make room for the new S...

The N/W corner of Spadina and College at the turn of the century. A current view. A couple of period postcards of the intersection.

An original G3 Clairtone currently for sale on Kjiji @ $3500.00 which is actually (inflation adjusted) close to it's original cost of $2...

Bassel's matchbooks courtesy of the Chuckman Collection. The sort of thing most people would throw away but thankfully someone cares e...