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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Big bruiser clouds in the west end just now. Looking NE from the Wallace St bridge.

Big, dark clouds hang low over a railway track.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Victoria Garden Apartments at 2400 Queen St E, built 1931.

The front elevation of a brick apartment building featuring a tall central window made up of 12 panes, capped by a stone arch, and a circular window perched above it, like a cherry on a sundae.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Heartbreak on repeat in a closed bar at dawn.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Let’s win the World Series

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

One of the wilder views I’ve come across lately. - The former Bank of British North America snagged in maximum security fencing at Dufferin and King W.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Bit of magic this morning on King West, at Bay.

The rising sun reflects off of a glass tower, spilling warm, orange light over the Mies ven der Rohe-designed Toronto-Dominion Centre at Bay and King Sts.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

For the love of a good window. - The former Toronto Stock Exchange, 234 Bay St, built 1937.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Round the back, at Old City Hall.

An old hanging lamp with the word ‘police’ stencilled across the glass, suspended above a wooden door.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

One of the lovely McIntyre & Taylor covers that misspells Toronto as Tornoto. Queen St W, near Manning

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The upper storey has its charms too.

An ornate, arched window, featuring orange, white and green decorative elements, near the roofline of a brick hospital building. Just above the window are the symbols for pharmacology and medicine.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Stack at St Joseph’s, Sunnyside Ave.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Fun with reflections on a streetcar ride at dawn.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Lovely leaded glass transom on this storefront at 717 Queen St W.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hands down, the best entrance of the St Joseph’s Health Centre complex.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Fantastic moon last night. Couldn’t hope to do it justice, so I did my best with the spiderweb of streetcar wires instead. - Queensway, near the Roncesvalles, Queen W, King W union.

A red TTC streetcar sits beneath shiny streetcar wires on an inky October night. A bright white, fuzzy moon overlooks the scene.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Great tiles, marvellous stained glass. - Roncesvalles Ave, near Fermanagh.

A narrow side entrance to apartments above a storefront. The walls are tiled in small brown and cream square tiles, the walk is tiled in white with a decorative border in red and green. Above the brown, wooden door is a beautiful stained glass transom.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

As far as standpipe and sprinkler connections go, this one’s a beauty. - Commerce Court North, built 1931

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Terrific gate at 139 Church - the long, longtime home of McTamney’s pawnshop.

A decorative but spare gate, featuring a sharp letter ‘M’, at the side entrance of a storefront.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Enjoying this balmy, autumnal morning. Looking SE to Yonge and Temperance, from the Cloud Gardens at Richmond.

Steam rises dramatically above a five storey, heritage brick building, nestled amongst looming, modern glass neighbours.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It's a bit tough to make out but this patch of concrete is marked 1946. Not super old, but none too common in the city. - Southwood Drive, at Glen Stewart Crescent.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Despite the best efforts of the modern cladding and windows, traces of this building’s early charms shine through. - 1071 Gerrard St E.

An early storefront with a central doorway, framed by decorative trim and ironwork. Above, the building is clad with bland aluminum siding and modern windows.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Commerce Court North, built 1931, reflected in the glossy glass of the Deloitte building on Adelaide, at Yonge.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

So pleased and honoured that my Much Ado on the Danforth - about the rogue Danforth Business Men’s Association protests - has been nominated for Heritage Toronto’s Public History award. www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...

heritagetoronto.org

2025 Public History Award Nominees – Heritage Toronto

Discover the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominees, which cover a range of heritage topics, from music history to multiculturalism.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Not a particularly old ghost sign, but still fun to see this Ontario Honda signage from 1976 revealed. -1255 Queen St E

A single-storey storefront sports a recently uncovered sign for the shop’s first resident - Ontario Honda.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Oh boy, the Festival of Bizarre Toronto History is coming up! Very excited to be part of this panel discussing oddball contests. Hope you’ll join us!

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

‘Twas a drizzly, misty crossing on the Wallace St bridge last night.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I've been enjoying the recent appearance of crows in the east end. Their dramatic, slightly ominous cawing has been a fun and welcome addition to the usual street noise.

A crow, perched on a utility pole, surveys Queen St E in the Beaches.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Granada Towers - 2440 Queen St E.

A long overhang at the entrance to the mid-century Granada Towers apartment building. The R. C. Harris water treatment plant and Lake Ontario are reflected in the glass front doors and windows.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Gone for ages, it’s remarkable how the ghost of Simpsons lingers yet. Third photo, from 1981, courtesy City of Toronto Archives.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

73 Richmond St W - The Graphic Arts Building, built in 1913, was designed by Francis S. Baker as the home of Saturday Night Magazine.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Parkside Barbershop - 1679 Bloor St, at Indian Road.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

2333 Dundas St W, near Bloor. The warm glow of Bloor Dundas Square on a dark, damp November evening.

The lit lobby of a mid-1970s medical building on a dark, damp November evening.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

1826 Queen St E A charming, cheery, classic storefront, already decked out for the holidays.

A classic storefront with a recessed entrance, painted up in red and blue. The flanking windows feature nutcrackers, ornaments and a Christmas village display. A passing red and white Toronto streetcar is reflected in the shop's door and window glass.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

426 Queen St E - built in 1913 for the Quaker Candy Company. Always a sucker for a circular window, I’m especially sweet on this one.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

1. One spring day 79 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany & began floating toward the ground. This is the story of Toppy Topham — and how he died. (It's an annual Remembrance Day thread I used to post on the other site that feels apt for my first thread here.)

In the foreground, a smiling young man in a maroon beret and a khaki green military uniform. In the ground, dozens of tiny soldiers parachute through an otherwise empty sky.

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Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NEW! For TVO (@tvotoday.bsky.social), for Remembrance Day I look at the story of "Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl," who served as a prototype for the iconic "Rosie the Riveter" image. #history #remembranceday www.tvo.org/article/befo...

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I've started to create a Toronto history starter pack — let me know who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/2Cd88Tu

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Moody skies round the ol’ Canadian General Electric water tower this afternoon.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Warmth and light, somewhere in the dark.

A century-old stained glass window, lit by a warm interior light, viewed from the street in the dark, just before dawn.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

My little tale of how a band of Danforth business men went rogue, 90 years ago this week.

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https://onegalstoronto.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/much-ado-on-the-danforth/

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Built in 1908 for the Canadian Birkbeck Investment Co, 8-10 Adelaide St E. is now home to the Ontario Heritage Centre. One of many glorious structures the great George Wallace Gouinlock gave this city.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

How I love the Commerce Court - North elevators in the PATH. They’re mighty spare, but delightful to me.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

962 Bloor St W This lovely bit of terrazzo is a remnant of the former Kenwood Theatre, which opened here in 1930.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Does my heart good to know that there are still little neighbourhood markets that look like this. - Danforth and Westlake.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

The sign itself dates to ~1939 when Melba’s neighbour to the west came down, freeing up the wall for additional advertising. Photo of Melba Billiards at Queen and Leslie, ca. 1926, from City of Toronto Archives.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Queen E & Leslie With the demolition of the former Lee Food factory now underway, a long-hidden ghost sign has been revealed. This partial sign advertises the Melba Billiards which occupied 1233 Queen E from 1926 to 1947.

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

765B Yonge St - Private entrance of the Albert Britnell Book Shop building, built 1928. I've spotted the odd coal chute on older buildings, but this is the first I've seen smack dab in the centre of an entry.

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