March 15, 2024
Lost interiors, lighting and street scenes from Toronto's history. | |
Counter at 19 Toronto Street from the early 1900s. Note the new electric post lights on the wickets. |
Toronto Hat store in the 1930s/40s. Love those black and white Art Deco Pendants. |
![]() High Park bedroom from around 1915. Looks antique now but this was a new interior when photographed.
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![]() Eaton's College Street Lighting Department featuring Art Deco lighting. |
1919 photograph from a house on Madison Avenue in Toronto. Nice late Victorian early electric fixture hangs in the room. |
1920s picture from a house in High Park. New Neo Classical candle arm pan light hangs in the center of the room. |
Bloor and Yonge in the 1920s. All of those old signs would have been illuminated at night. Pure magic. |
Toronto Interior from around 1910-20. Lovely Neo Classical wood and gesso dome hangs in the center of the room. |
Toronto hospital from the 1920s-30s. Note the school house globes and early electric reading sconces above the beds. |
King Street in the late teens early 1920s. Stunning old lamp posts once adorned this city. |
Albert Street next to the Eaton's complex. Great example of an original street light. |
Consumers Gas lighting showroom circa 1910. Gas lighting was trying to complete with the new electric light. Neat to see original gas street lights next to a new electric street light. |
Two fingers of whisky....neat. Bar at the Lakeview Hotel on Parliament St with original gas lighting |
Check out those combination gas electric chandeliers. |
New electric lighting in Toronto's first skyscraper. The Forresters Building. |
Photo from around 1910. Lighting and plumbing shop at the corner of King St W and Dunn Ave in Parkdale. |
Shop lighting over the produce at Carlaw and Danforth from the 1930s-40s |
Electric lighting showroom at Carlaw and Gerrard in a Toronto Hydro building. |
![]() Arts and Crafts interior from 1913
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Late Victorian interior from a house on Madison Avenue |
Queens Hotel interior from 1920. Originally sat at the site of the Royal York hotel.
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1929 lobby of commercial building on Bay Street |
Rooming house from 1912. The single J arm gas light in the center lit the entire room. |
Art Nouveau interior of the Walker House hotel from 1913 |
Interior on Adelaide Street from around 1910. Note the Victorian plaster medallion is missing its gas light and the new electric light sits next to it. |
Rooming house on King St. Single gas light hangs at the back of the room |