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Yes excellent music!

THANK YOU !! WONDERFUL

GREAT PICTURES, THANK YOU FOR SHARING !!😊

Do you have any photos of the Neilson factory on Gladstone Ave, as well as the St Annes church. The schools in the area, Brock, Kent, Bloor. As well as the Dufferin park, the Dufferin plaza when it was a race track. Or any pictures of the area. As well as Richmond St and Queen St area. Thanks enjoy the effort. Lived in Toronto from 1947 to 1997

I remember a good deal of what you see here. It's sad to see how much Toronto has changed and how much we have lost. This is a splendid documentary.

Neil, the light bulb just went on over my head and I realise the pic of the Witt 2438 is looking south on Connaught just south of Queen. The switches behind the car are the north east exit from the Russell Carhouse property. The traffic office would be just out of view to the right, but the substation shows plainly between the houses before Connaught narrows on its south end. What do I win???

Hi Neil. Thank you for your enjoyable posts. As a long time streetcar fan I've been researching the TTC and its predecessors for a few decades. I've had a chance to learn from some of the best, notably Jack Knowles, John Mills and Bob Sandusky to name a few. But I digress, I miss those fellows, Bob is still with us but I haven't seen him in a number of years. Anyhow I agree with your caption of the pic being Bingham Loop, but it is definitely not 1890. The TTC didn't start double tracking the westerly portion of the Toronto and York Scarboro Radial until they got control of it about 1922/23. It was at this time that the loop was built. Prior to that, the standard gauge Radial was on the north side of the roadway up to Victoria Park, with no switch at VP. Then soon after crossing VP they went to the south side for a stretch to out beyond Birchmount Rd. before crossing back to the north side. It was near the crossover of the roadway to the south side that they had the junction with their deadly single track with no siding, branch line down Blantyre to Queen Street to end just shy of the present day Neville Loop. I had guessed from another pic that I had seen of the loop under construction looking south on Vic Park that there had been parallel tracks in the loop property but this was nice to get confirmation. No idea when the second track was removed. During the TTC overhaul of the line, they placed a demotored 1890s built single truck Toronto Railway Company streetcar tethered with a cable to the trolley wire, as a lit waiting shelter at the break of gauge between the TTC and the T&Y at the north west corner of VP and Kingston Road. That had been one of the wretched trailers the TRCo subjected their hard suffering passengers to and had not yet been scrapped by the new Commission. Love your posts, they're fun.

Neil I am enjoying your series and like being able to match my knowledge of the city to the neighbourhoods and streets you show. Being a streetcar fan since age 3 gives me that extra interest in your posts. You've taught me some things I was unaware of and improved my meager knowledge base but.... The pic you have with Witt 2438 signed Woodbine Queen is in the twenties indeed as the car has yet to be fitted with an advance light and hooded advert lights on the dash. It is definitely not at Woodbine. There were no switches there. My first guess was Kingston Road looking north with Queen behind the camera, but there is an exit from what is likely a loop on the right, but unless the TTC altered that to be the loop entrance soon after this pic lets that idea out. And it's too close to Queen. So how about Coxwell just north Queen, the angles and distances look right and the tracks in front of the car OK, but the pesky loop exit is the wrong way about again. I'm gonna go with Coxwell, as the architecture has all the hallmarks of the east end and the car's sign could be staged. I'll have to do more research if the loop direction had been changed to its present day entrance off of Coxwell, and when? But until then, definitely not Woodbine and Queen, just too much going on and oh, no racetrack. I am still going through your other posts and having a whale of a time, thank you for your efforts.

This is fabulous! I love seeing pictures of downtown Toronto. I was born and raised and worked DT for eleven years when I was in my 20s and 30’s , I’m now pushing 70. Thanks for the memories. Can’t wait to see your other videos. 🎉

1:41: I was just there on Saturday. Wow....

Thoroughly enjoyed this thank you ❤

Canada right?

I didn't know that there were underground toilets in the 1910's ? Unusual photo. Plus other interesting photos then and now

That lighthouse baffles me too

As always, fantastic photos Neil! Thanks for bringing back memories of when I worked at Yonge & St. Clair back in the 70's.

Wonder what the backstory on the accident on the Danforth in 1935 was. Pretty big wreck and a huge crowd.

This brings tears..that was my Toronto. It was a great time to live in Toronto. My Toronto is gone and I've left Toronto too. It isn't my Toronto anymore but I have beautiful memories❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

My grandmother was born in 1919. When she was 7, she lived in the basement of st bartholamew’s church. It was her job to take a cart to parliament somewhere to get coke for the church furnace. I bet she got it from that coal stand. She was native and had been taken from her family at 4 to be “ educated “ by the church

I live in Toronto and really like your compare and contrast pictures from yesteryears and today. It's always great to get a better sense of the city's evolution. One idea that comes to mind is having both of the photos in black and white. It's really easy to turn a colour jpg into an achromatic one even in free image editing programs such as GIMP. Or maybe go from the old achromatic to a black and white contemporary to colour contemporary. The transitions would be less visually jarring and allow viewers to focus more on the content. Anyways, great work!

Well Done !!!!!!!! Also, cameo appearance of the Little Rascals gang, at 5:15 🧸🦋🛴

Thank you

Your first 4 pictures, Brunswick Meat Market / Souvlaki Place. I was there, less than an hour ago. Spooky! Awesome pictures as usual, Neil. Great sound, too! Thank you

I've been waiting for a new video to drop, it was worth the wait!

More great research here Neil....gotta love that Butcher Shop. Reminds me of an old fashioned one I went to with my Grandma back in the late 1950s/early 1960s around Runnymede and Bloor. I remember it had sawdust on the floor. Grandma called it “Cut Rate Meats”.

Great video, loving the new direction of your sound tracks.

Wish you can find Rice Dairy

At 1:56 the reflection seems to show a Thunderbird of the 1958-1960 vintage. Even if available from Sept 1957 or so, the photo cannot be from 1954 as dated. Another great collection! Thank you.

Very nicely done, thanks for this.

growing up in the annex in the 60s .Spent much time in the midtown and Alhambra ... oh yeay also the metro

How bout the Runnymede at Runnymede&Bloor...or the Odeon Hyland on Bloor just West of Jane Street....or the old. Westwood Theatre that was south of Bloor near the Six Points in Etobicoke. Too many to recall Neil....Good Stuff as always👍👀

I shake my head when seeing what has been lost to ugly glass and steel structures abundant in this new Toronto. That is not architecture, what was there was indeed and well presented.

Lizar's at Jones and Baird. Remember it well. The modern day pic of Danforth and Coxwell looks a tad lifeless.

I would love to see more pictures of Lansdowne avenue right around Lansdowne TTC Garage. I started my career there in 1981. This is another great video as always.

Great video, even better music selection

I visited that Tower store on Carlaw and Gerrard during my youth

Thanks. Warwick Hotel…Tom Waits stayed there on one of his Toronto stops.

Another great video. Thank you kindly.

Good one. Fire Station 424 was, for many years, TFD No. 9. My uncle, Ted Harman, was a Shift Captain. Too bad it was decommissioned. Interesting look, too, at Dundas and Greenwood before it was Dundas. The Dundas Street East underpass was completed in 1953. The City saw Dundas as a good alternative to Queen Street or Danforth Avenue as a connection to Kingston Road. In doing so, Dundas absorbed Whitby Avenue, parts of Dickins Street and Dagmar Avenue, Doel Avenue, Applegrove Avenue, Ashbridge Avenue and part of Maughan Crescent.

Very well done. I look forward to more great videos in the future. Thank you kindly.

Thanks again Neil! It's quite amazing how the distillery district was "cleaned up" so to speak, commercalized yet was able to keep its history all relevant and and intact for the most part.

Notice on the aerial shot from the harbour looking towards the distillery the gasifier. Worked on a house in High Park that had disused piping for this product.

7:20 Esplanade looking East - 1874. How was this taken? This is an aerial photo 30 years before the the first airplane and is easily higher than the tallest building, steeple or smoke stack of the time - building on right gives a sense of the camera's angle. Balloon? Evidence of a UFO?

I lived in a bldg on Beech and my door opened up to the alley behind the Fox Theatre. I miss the Beaches.

The scenes of outside the factory in Tommy Boy were filmed in the distillery district.

Excellent!

Fantastic as always! Do you have anymore of Withrow Park, or Withrow Park school?

Unusual, looks like the photos were taken in the late 80's

0:29 The Court Street Parkette, a beautiful little spot obscured here by the foreground bushes, is unfortunately now taken over by groups of people openly smoking, buying and selling d rugs - morning, noon and night. I take it that's why you couldn't take an actual picture of it.

Great video. Do you have any pictures with schools, before and after?

if you are going to use the ' here we are' or 'here we were' premis then stick with. hint time stamps or dates and it you cant guess use your best discursion, i like your videos but you seem to run in to the situation ever time, its very frustrating