From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story
The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.
Read moreThe Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.
Read moreWe didn’t realize until inspecting the photo, featuring the Cobs Bread outlet, that the beautiful old wooden home from 1903 is still there too.
Read moreA photo from city archives in 1915 shows a time when the railway had taken over the Beltline crossing, leaving vehicles drawn by horses to pass under.
Read moreYonge-Eglinton is back to being like any other big city of highrises, crowded sidewalks and clogged roads, which makes it a good time to have a look back.
Read moreWhen the Mt. Pleasant Road Loop was being built nearly 94 years ago, the work didn’t cause massive traffic jams as the building of the Eglinton Crosstown line does now.
Read moreYonge Street once featured horse-drawn hay wagons and streetcars, not to mention pedestrians and dogs straying across, according to a 1917 photo.
Read moreFour-lane viaduct spanned the Yellow Creek ravine, joining up two stretches of St. Clair Avenue and giving Moore Park better access to Toronto.
Read moreBack in 1908 the west end of what was to become the Danforth Avenue strip known as Greektown resembled nothing more than an isolated frontier town.
Read moreIn the early 1900s, when the above photo was taken, Oulcott’s Hotel stood at the northwest corner of what is now Yonge Street and Helendale Avenue.
Read morePictures from 1941 show a very different North Toronto, at least at Mt. Pleasant Road and Keewatin Avenue.
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