Canadian skylines of the past - Page 187

niwell · #**3721** Posted **Dec 22, 2023, 2:06 PM**

Very cool stuff. Gerrard St village is one of those long-erased areas that's always fascinated me. Looked pretty hip back in the day.

kool maudit · #**3722** Posted **Dec 22, 2023, 5:54 PM**

That area may be long gone, but its scale is very classic Toronto, a kind of rambling, low-rise thing radiating down long, straight corridors.

It is too bad that Yonge has lost this now.

hipster duck · #**3723** Posted **Dec 22, 2023, 9:06 PM**

This Gerrard Village pic from 1963 is interesting to me, since it feels like the kind of hipster neighbourhood that small, provincial places first carve out, a few storefronts at a time. For example, this strip in Kitchener, or this strip in Sudbury.

The Yorkville pictures from the same thread are just 5 or 6 years later and, while it's definitely no Carnaby street, the vibe feels a lot more "big city".

It shows just how much things changed during the 1960s.

Coldrsx · #**3724** Posted **Feb 14, 2024, 7:27 PM**

https://twitter.com/LouisPereira_/st...9567%2Fpage-27

MonkeyRonin · #**3725** Posted **Feb 23, 2024, 10:54 PM**

Some classic Greg Girard Vancouver (70s-early 2000s): https://www.instagram.com/gregforaday/

Gresto · #**3726** Posted **Feb 23, 2024, 11:10 PM**

Those are some highly evocative shots.

osirisboy · #**3727** Posted **Feb 25, 2024, 5:57 AM**

Looks like a shithole ghetto

craner · #**3728** Posted **Feb 25, 2024, 6:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

https://twitter.com/LouisPereira_/st...9567%2Fpage-27

Early 60’s ?

Also, was Thorton Court shorter in those days ?

harls · #**3729** Posted **Feb 28, 2024, 6:05 PM**

Calgary - 1975

TorontoDrew · #**3730** Posted **Feb 28, 2024, 6:18 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by osirisboy

Looks like a shithole ghetto

Looks like a Rustbelt Appalachians small city. I love the grit in thos Vancouver shots.

Coldrsx · #**3731** Posted **Feb 28, 2024, 6:35 PM**

^^good eye and yes, early 60s I believe.

Didn't realize how much single family housing there was in the Westend.

craner · #**3732** Posted **Mar 3, 2024, 7:07 AM**

^Yes - funny to see all those SFHs in what is now downtown.
Also, there doesn’t appear to be any underpasses under the CPR tracks in those days. The Beltline was totally cut off.

MolsonExport · #**3733** Posted **Mar 3, 2024, 4:31 PM**

Love those fantastically gritty old Vancouver shots, Monkeyronin.

MolsonExport · #**3734** Posted **Mar 3, 2024, 4:34 PM**

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Some classic Greg Girard Vancouver (70s-early 2000s): https://www.instagram.com/gregforaday/

That guy provided photos for an utterly fascinating book on the Walled City of Kowloon.