{"id":1529,"date":"2007-02-12T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2007-02-12T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T04:01:15","slug":"toronto-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/12\/toronto-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto, before and after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Larger version of photo\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_NJ8yd3TvFlY\/RboVnK3EtMI\/AAAAAAAAABM\/ve5b5OxyTpQ\/s1600-h\/City+of+Toronto+Archives,+Series+376,+s0376_fl0002_it0001jpg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/parkdale-1900.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Larger version of photo\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_NJ8yd3TvFlY\/RboVV63EtKI\/AAAAAAAAAA8\/vAAChc-zXsk\/s1600-h\/16504815_75e029ac63_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/parkdale-2006.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love before and after photos. It shows how much things change and how much they stay the same. The above images are looking west on Queen St. West from the top of the Gladstone Hotel at Dufferin. The top image is from 1898 and the bottom one was taken in 2005. Click on either photo to see a larger version.<br \/>\nToronto is lucky to have a great collection of images in the Toronto Archives, and we&#8217;re just as lucky to have a blog like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontobefore.blogspot.com\/\">Toronto Before<\/a> dedicated to showing us how we&#8217;ve grown as a city. This is a great little blog with some nice tidbits of local history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love before and after photos. It shows how much things change and how much they stay the same. The above images are looking west on Queen St. West from the top of the Gladstone Hotel at Dufferin. The top image is from 1898 and the bottom one was taken in 2005. Click on either<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/12\/toronto-before-and-after\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto, before and after&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[996,316,2532,19],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-neighbourhoods","tag-gladstone-hotel","tag-queen","tag-st-west","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto, before and after - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/12\/toronto-before-and-after\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto, before and after - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love before and after photos. 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