Then. Osgoode House. NE corner of Chestnut and Queen West. 1955 photograph. I don't think that anyone mourns the loss of this old place; taken down along with the rest of this section of downtown for the New City Hall.  We have so many like it still extant - old watering holes with rooms for rent upstairs still soldiering on - a distinctively Toronto icon: the Rex, the Dominion Hotel, Cameron House...


Now.  July 2012.