Bay and Queen Streets

Below is a photo of Bay Street looking north, at Queen West, with the "Old City Hall" on the right, circa 1923.

Picture is courtesy the City of Toronto Archives

If you roll your mouse over the black and white photo, click on it, and look just behind the southbound Bay Street trolley, and you will see "Shea's Hippodrome".

I think the intersection looks wider, and the little island(on the north west corner) is still there some 84 years later.

Notice the traffic cop in the lower right hand corner.

This is a colour photo of the same intersection, taken in August of 2007.

You can see the "New City Hall" peeking out from behind the "Old City Hall".

Notice that there are no streetcars on Bay Street, but there are street cars or Canadian Light Rail Vehicles, on Queen Street.

And we have electric traffic lights, instead of a cop with signs.