Posted by Damon Schreiber (Toronto, Canada) on 17 August 2007 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.
Sakamoto/Schreiber - Toronto 1977-2007 series starts here.
Note: The Addison car dealership pictured in the 1977 photo only went out of business in the spring of this year. I was rather disappointed because I had this project in mind and would have welcomed the continuity. But apart from that, little else has changed here. For some reason, though, it proved devilishly hard to get the perspective exactly right in this photo. If you look closely, you'll see that it's still slightly off.
Top image copyright Shige Sakamoto - 坂本政恵
High-res here (my image) and here (1977 image). The entire 1977 series can be viewed in context starting here.
[Bay & College, Toronto]
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Hey, amazing photos. Great find with the 1977 pics. HAppens to be my birth year. I love the caomparison shots. I have a few of my own. Feel free to check them out if you get a chance. Great work! www. torontobefore.blogspot.com
17 Aug 2007 7:40am
wow i think this spot changed the least out of the rest of the series. nice work.
17 Aug 2007 9:41am
Interesting that you said it was "devilishly" difficult to get the perspective. Addison was the latter-day site of a house there in the 1890's in whose cellar the bodies of two girls were found. They were victims of Mr. Holmes, the serial killer from Chicago who was mostly busy killing young women in Chicago during the World's Fair in 1893. This is depicted in the non-fiction book, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. (The White City was the nickname for the Fair.) At the time that the bodies were found in Toronto, the street was called St. Vincent Street. There was not a through street as Bay Street is today; it ended at College and was called something else south of there.
17 Aug 2007 11:23am
Damon, this series is brilliant! Haven't checked in to am3 for a while and I've obviously been missing great stuff .. quality!
17 Aug 2007 2:18pm
Very impressive series. You certain plan in advance. This reminds me of one shot that my husband took of me with the Tower Bridge, London in the background. I discovered one day as I was flipping through my mother's holiday shots in London that she was standing on the exact same spot. It was as if time just stood still.
17 Aug 2007 11:36pm
Only a few small details have changed. There is no clue at the bottom right corner to duplicate the image.
18 Aug 2007 1:15am
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