401 circa 1965

[SirWanker]

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/401_1967.jpg

Now that was soooooo ideal.

Spadina Expressway @ Lawrence roughly 1963
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/SpadinaExpresswaylawrence1963.jpg

Steeles Ave @ Bayview ~1965
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/Steeles_Bayview_1965.jpg

[yearoftherat]

I think the first pic was taken during rush hour :chuckle

[aris]

cool pics

[Default User]

yeah I remember going to Scarb Town Cntr a little while back and staring at their Archive photos by lower level food court washrooms

I think I stood there for about an hour just staring at 'em.

[cwp_sedan]

Great pics. I want to see more!! :)

[SirWanker]

Great pics. I want to see more!! :)
There's a whole lot of them located here: http://www.toronto.ca/archives/digitised_photos_list.htm . So far I've just reviewed less than 5%..

[Gizzmo_jr]

Cool photos, thanks for the links.

[optiklenz13]

in here too.

http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=6947

[SirWanker]

Spadina Ave Bridge over GTR tracks @ 1915
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/SpadinaAveBridgeOverGTR_1915APR22.jpg

Spadina Ave Bridge over GTR tracks @ 2009
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/SpadinaAveBridgeOverGTR_2009.jpg

[SirWanker]

Gerrard and Hastings circa 1919
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/Gerrard_Hastings_1919DEC22.jpg

Gerrard and Hastings circa 2009
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/Gerrard_Hastings_2009.jpg
Sorry about the angle as I couldn't quite get it right with Google maps

[SirWanker]

in here too.

http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=6947

That's what got me hooked on all this! It took me more than 4 days to go through all of the pages in that single thread but curiosity got the better of me and now I'm at the T.O Archives.

[SpeedBaby]

Steeles Ave @ Bayview ~1965
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/Steeles_Bayview_1965.jpg

I can see that the road quality stayed about the same in the past 45 years...:complain

[cereal83]

Wow @ the first pic. Just imagine that was the busiest the 401 ever got. I would be living an hour from the city then!

[dentinger]

now imagine what these roads and cities will look like in another 40-50 years....

[Broli]

awesome pics

and Adam is right . . .just imagine!

lol

[dentinger]

1. i want my jetpack.
2. i want my flying car.
3. toronto better look like this:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/dentinger/retrofuturistic_city03.jpg

[Thrizzl3]

1. i want my jetpack.
2. i want my flying car.
3. toronto better look like this:
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w65/dentinger/retrofuturistic_city03.jpg

The Jetsons..in 3D:chuckle

[SilentJay]

Mississauga has something like this too!

Clicky (http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/historicimagesgallery)

[SirWanker]

SW corner of Queensway and Wesley then:
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/SW_QueenswayWesley.jpg

SW Corner of Queensway and Wesley now
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/SW_QueenswayWesley_Now.jpg

[vcp]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

[dentinger]

The Jetsons..in 3D:chuckle

the sad thing...im never going to see this in my lifetime.
jetpacks will be the new "teen" thing. like cellphones our for our generation.

[SirWanker]

Lawrence Ave east and Leslie 1964
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/LawrenceELeslie_1964.jpg

Lawrence Ave east and Leslie 2009
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu249/LordWanker/Past%20and%20Present/LawrenceELeslie_2009.jpg

[SirWanker]

401 Facing east @Warden circa 1958
http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc410/BRUCE_MARSHMAN/Leonard%20Poole%20Collection/038_38.jpg

Lawrence Ave E circa 1964
http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy213/gdunbar/LawrenceatPkwyc1964.jpg

[RedRaptor]

I hate driving nowadays.

[Axelarate]

anybody got extra flux capacitor for the dmc delorean im rebuilding? :)

[tweak_s]

SW corner of Queensway and Wesley looks very similar haha.

[n00bMeiSter]

They had google streetview in the 60's?! Woah! :whoa

:chuckle


Seriously though, that's really awesome. Can't wait to go through all the pics.

[SirWanker]

They had google streetview in the 60's?! Woah! :whoa
:chuckle
Seriously though, that's really awesome. Can't wait to go through all the pics.

Hope you have plenty of time because that thread is more than 479 pages long!
Or you can browse a condensed version here: Scarborough Photographs Then and Now (http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/17958-Scarborough-Photographs-Then-and-Now).

Better yet if HD vintage photos are more to your liking go to Shorpy (http://www.shorpy.com/)
e.g.
http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY_09968u.jpg

[Noisy Crow]

I like the Lawrence East one -- I grew up not too far from there and we drove by that spot all the time. The Borden's factory was there well into the '70's (turned into Silverwoods some time around 1980, IIRC). For a while they had an ice cream stand off of the parking lot you can see in front of the building.

[n00bMeiSter]

Hope you have plenty of time because that thread is more than 479 pages long!
Or you can browse a condensed version here: Scarborough Photographs Then and Now (http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/17958-Scarborough-Photographs-Then-and-Now).

Better yet if HD vintage photos are more to your liking go to Shorpy (http://www.shorpy.com/)

Holy crap. That's a lot of pages! I guess I've got a winter project all set up lol

Thanks for the links, this is going to be awesome. I love seeing how places change over time. Especially the place I call home :)

[krimsalt]

wow thanks for sharing i love pics like this.

there is somethign similar in scarboro town center, in the washroom corridor near the first floor food court (next to the pet store). it shows picture of scarboro through the ages.