Looking northeast towards the corner of Dundas St E and Mutual St in the Garden District of Toronto.
Businesses in the archive photo include Tom’s Open Kitchen, The Fruit Cave, Deny’s Barbecue Delicatessen, Ted’s Variety Store with a Pepsi sign, Day-N-Nite Cleaners and Five Colors (spelled with no “u”) Painless Tattoo. The old photo also shows the Warwick Hotel featuring a Coca-Cola ad. Built in 1910 and originally the Royal Cecil Apartments, the Warwick closed in 1980 and was demolished soon after.
The corner building at 152-154 Dundas St E dates to the late 1870s, and today the corner storefront is occupied by Plug Canna6is.
In the left background of both photos, the Brutalist-style cantilevered structure, completed in 1971, was originally the head office of Simpsons-Sears.
Then and Now
SOURCE
- City of Toronto Heritage Register
- Heritage Toronto
- Ontario Heritage Trust
- The Globe Newspaper Archives: Nov 20, 1970, pg B10
- The Globe Newspaper Archives: Nov 17, 1980, pg 4
- Photo: Denise Marie for TorontoJourney416
- Vintage Photo: City of Toronto Archives
- City of Toronto: Maps
- Toronto City Directory courtesy of Toronto Public Library
