Up today is a photo looking north from the Norton Palmer Hotel taken in 1930. Despite all the things I cover here on the website that have been mangled, or demolished, it’s funny how this one vantage point would still look remarkably similar even today. 🙂 .
It’s also a good shot of how the ground floor of the Guaranty Trust Building on the left looked before it was “renovated”.
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I can tell you that CKLW used to broadcast from either the third or fourth floor of the Guaranty Trust Building. In the early fifties I was a member of the St Marys boy choir. Every Saturday we used to sing over the radio in a programme called The Birthday Party. Anyone remember that?
I believe there was a deadly fire at the Norton Palmer Hotel....John mentions family attending a club there in the 60's . Is the hotel still there?
Lin - the Norton Palmer was demolished in the 1970's.
I've been researching the CKLW studios, and the Windsor directories in the Windsor Library have CKLW in the building on the 10th floor in 1940, and both the 9th & 10th floor in 1953. The 1953 directory lists the street as the old name: 176 London West.
Does anyone know where the original of this photo might be? Or a similar photo from the 40's that shows the Guaranty Trust building?
That could be someone's view at Victoria Park Place, now. Perhaps we could get a direct comparison shot. I love those!