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Station Master · 02-15-2005, 12:14 PM

"....but they say you gotta live there for a while" (well, I arrive over 40 years ago

thought i'd share (and re-test the upload4free site ) an old slide i just found, here's a pic my pregnant mom took 'arriving'...but it wasn't arriving from the British Isles, it was just coming back on the ferry from Toronto (Centre) Island, lol

you can mainly see the Royal York Hotel on the left and the old 'Cornerstone of the City' back then, aka the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Building

i believe it was the tallest 'skyscraper' in the country back then, lol

"Completed in 1931, this building is the "Grande Dame" of Toronto's banking institutions. Designed by New York architects York and Sawyer, the 34-storey edifice casts a shadow of grandeur over the much larger structures that now dominate the city's Financial District. Located two blocks west of Yonge Street, this Romanesque building lends a sense of security to all who enter. The ground floor, with its banking rooms and grand lobbies, is decorated with wrought-iron detail and gilded mouldings that offer a sense of part revenue and part reverence"

it's still there today but it is buried somewhere in this new photo, but you can still see the Royal York (which now has the Fairmont sign on it )

btw, they are changing the name of Skydome to the Roger's Centre (i think that's the name anyhow)...it was just a matter of time, now everything is 'commercial'...i'm almost glad that Maple Leaf Gardens retired itself before it became named after a bank or softdrink company, that just wouldn't be right, lol

maybe i should have called this thread "Changes"?

02-15-2005, 12:14 PM	#1
Station Master Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 455	"....but they say you gotta live there for a while" (well, I arrive over 40 years ago thought i'd share (and re-test the upload4free site ) an old slide i just found, here's a pic my pregnant mom took 'arriving'...but it wasn't arriving from the British Isles, it was just coming back on the ferry from Toronto (Centre) Island, lol you can mainly see the Royal York Hotel on the left and the old 'Cornerstone of the City' back then, aka the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Building i believe it was the tallest 'skyscraper' in the country back then, lol "Completed in 1931, this building is the "Grande Dame" of Toronto's banking institutions. Designed by New York architects York and Sawyer, the 34-storey edifice casts a shadow of grandeur over the much larger structures that now dominate the city's Financial District. Located two blocks west of Yonge Street, this Romanesque building lends a sense of security to all who enter. The ground floor, with its banking rooms and grand lobbies, is decorated with wrought-iron detail and gilded mouldings that offer a sense of part revenue and part reverence" it's still there today but it is buried somewhere in this new photo, but you can still see the Royal York (which now has the Fairmont sign on it ) btw, they are changing the name of Skydome to the Roger's Centre (i think that's the name anyhow)...it was just a matter of time, now everything is 'commercial'...i'm almost glad that Maple Leaf Gardens retired itself before it became named after a bank or softdrink company, that just wouldn't be right, lol maybe i should have called this thread "Changes"?