Part Of

Benjamin Brown fonds

Commercial building plans and drawings series

Level

File

Fonds

49

Series

3

File

21

Material Format

architectural drawing

Date

1948

Physical Description

1 architectural drawing : pencil and hand col. pencil crayon on tracing paper ; 52 cm length and 5 cm diam.

Admin History/Bio

Originally known as the Bedford, the Park Theatre was designed in 1929 by Murray Brown. It was renovated and renamed the Park in 1948. Located at 3291 Yonge Street, the building currently functions as a pet food store.

Scope and Content

File consists of designs of the 1948 renovations to the Park Theatre. A floor plan and a sketch of the stage area are included.

Related Material

See File 49-5-11 for architectural plans designed by Herbert G. Duerr of a theatre on Kingston Road.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Accession Number

2010-5-1

Material Format

graphic material

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 13 cm

Date

1944

Scope and Content

Accession consists of one copy photograph of Joseph Warner and his school friends on Yonge Street while on leave from military service during the Second World War. Identified from left to right are: Joseph Warner (Royal Canadian Air Force), Murray Vernon (Royal Canadian Navy), and Joseph Oiffer (Canadian Army).

Use Conditions

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Accessions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

17

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1931]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 15 cm mounted and framed 39 x 30 cm

Admin History/Bio

Sarah Goldstick was married to Wolf Goldstick. Their daughter Celia married Mr. Louis Goodman, and they had two daughters, Dina and Rose. Dina only lived until the age of two. The surviving child, Rose, was born in Chicago. She married Mac Snider during the 1920s, and they had two children, Jordon and Susan, who were born in 1929 and 1935 respectively. Her husband died at a young age in March 1935, leaving Rose a young widow.

Scope and Content

This family portrait includes four generations of Goldsticks: Sarah Goldstick (far right), Celia Goodman (left), Rose Snider (back) and her son Jordon (in front). The photograph was taken in Toronto at Simpson Brothers Studio on Yonge Street, five years before Sarah passed away in 1936.

Notes

The file list provides the name Gordon for the child. However, Betty's family record book indicates that Rose's son's name was Jordon Sigmund Harry Snider. Therefore Jordon is used as the name for the child.

Name Access

Goodman, Mrs. Celia

Goldstick, Mrs. Wolf

Snider, Gordon

Snider, Rose

Subjects

Families

Portraits, Group

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

979

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1856

Physical Description

1 drawing

Admin History/Bio

From its inception in 1856 until the building of its first synagogue a block east on Richmond Street at Victoria Street in 1876, the Holy Blossom congregation held traditional Orthodox services in a rented room over Coombe's Drugstore on the south-east corner of Yonge and Richmond Streets.

Scope and Content

Item is a drawing of Coombe's Drugstore that appeared in the 1856 Toronto City Directory as part of an advertisement for said drugstore.

Name Access

Coombe's Drugstore

Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects

Architecture

Drugstores

Synagogues

Places

Richmond Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1976-9-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1868

Material Format

graphic material

Date

June 20, 1920

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

Stop 17 was a transport stop in Thornhill served by an electrically powered rail line, called the Radial. The Jewish Girls' Club was sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women.

Scope and Content

This appears to be a Jewish Girls' Club outing.

Name Access

Yonge Street

Subjects

Girls

Picnics

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Thornhill (Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-1-11

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

34

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1910]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on mat 20 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Isadore and David working in a jewellery store located at 304 Yonge Street. David is on the left; Isadore is on the right. The photograph was likely taken before Isadore completed his PhD and David completed his law degree.

Name Access

Goldstick, David

Goldstick, Isidore

Subjects

Employees

Stores, Retail

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2508

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1935 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Admin History/Bio

Minnie Soltz passed away in 1989.

Scope and Content

Minnie Soltz, pictured in the Minette Millinery, a hat shop on Yonge St. in Toronto.

Name Access

Soltz, Minnie

Subjects

Millinery

Women's hats

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-14

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

2507

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1935 and 1945]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Minette Millinery

Subjects

Millinery

Storefronts

Women's hats

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-14

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1282

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1927]

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Name Access

Alter Furs

Subjects

Fur trade

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-5-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

1468

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1909

Physical Description

2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)

Admin History/Bio

Leah Hershorn's maiden name was Cornfield.

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Leah Hershorn standing behind the counter of her tobacco shop.

Notes

Photo by J. W. Wilson Co., 143 Queen St. W.

Name Access

Hershorn, Leah

Subjects

Small business

Tobacco

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1977-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

4497

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Notes

From the Benjamin Brown Collection : Commission CLV.

Name Access

Brown, Benjamin

Subjects

Architecture

Streets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Cumberland Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1987-9-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Betty Goldstick Lindgren fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

45

Item

12

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1917]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 9 cm (sight) on mat 25 x 15 cm

Scope and Content

Portrait of Betty Goldstick as a teenager. This collodion print was taken at Dayou Photo Studios on Yonge Street.

Subjects

Portraits

Teenagers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1978-10-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Item

3772

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[between 1940 and 1945]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Lazer "Louis" Rottenberg taken at the corner of Yonge and Queen Streets in Toronto.

Notes

Photo by Newsreel Snaps, Yonge St. Arcade, Toronto.

Name Access

Rotenberg, Lazer

Subjects

Portraits

Streets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Queen Street East (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1985-7-5

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Sammy Luftspring scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

1

Item

24

Material Format

graphic material

Date

Nov. 1948

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of the opening party for the Mercury Club, which was located at Dundas and Yonge Streets.

Individuals pictured include: Joe Spring, Max Eisen, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Shorty Grossman (playing the piano), and Lou Krugel.

Notes

Location of originals: Image is located on page 30 of the 65 x 48 cm scrapbook.

Availability of other formats: Also available as digital image.

General: Sammy Luftspring acted as the host at the Mercury Club.

Name Access

Eisen, Max, 1929-

Mercury Club (Toronto, Ont.)

Rosenthal (family)

Subjects

Nightclubs

Parties

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Dundas Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2009-10-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Sammy Luftspring fonds

Come out fighting scrapbook file

Level

Item

Fonds

82

File

2

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

29 Mar. 1985

Physical Description

1 photograph : col.

Scope and Content

Photograph of Sammy Luftspring riding down Yonge Street in the Canadian Cancer Society Parade with Earl Walls, Jim Proudfoot, and Stan Brock. This photograph was taken the same year Sammy was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

Notes

Image is located on page 53 of the 34 x 30 cm scrapbook.

Name Access

Brock, Stan, 1936-2018

Canadian Cancer Society

Proudfoot, Jim, 1933-2001

Walls, Earl, 1928-1996

Subjects

Parades

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Level

Item

Material Format

graphic material

Date

9 Nov. 1929

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

Item is a photograph of Yonge Street looking south from Wilton Square.

Subjects

Streets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Related Material

The City of Toronto Archives has the same image in Fonds 16, series 71, item 7435.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1980-12-14

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

General Wingate Branch 256, Royal Canadian Legion fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

74

Item

8

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Name Access

Royal Canadian Legion

Yonge Street

Subjects

Flags--Israel

Parades

Streets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1976-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

General Wingate Branch 256, Royal Canadian Legion fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

74

Item

9

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[194-]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph depicts members of the General Wingate Branch. First from the right is Mr. (?) Strawsman.

Name Access

Royal Canadian Legion

Subjects

Canada--Armed Forces

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1976-9-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Koffler Centre of the Arts fonds

Performances and events series

Level

File

Fonds

100

Series

9

File

24

Material Format

textual record

Date

2008

Physical Description

1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content

File consists of a playbill for Israeli cinema presented by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Jerusalem Foundation. The event was held off-site at the Sheppard Grande, a theatre located 4861 Yonge Street.

Name Access

Jerusalem Foundation

Sheppard Grande (Toronto, Ont.)

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Subjects

Motion pictures

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

52

Material Format

graphic material

Date

15 Nov. 1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph depicting a large line-up of people waiting to get into the first Lady Ellis Shop located at the corner of Yonge and Adelaide Streets in Toronto. The photograph was taken on opening day.

Name Access

Lady Ellis Shop

Subjects

Consumers

Storefronts

Women's clothing

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Adelaide Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

70

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[195-?]

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm

Scope and Content

This item consists of a photograph of a sign for Lady Ellis Shops in Toronto. The sign was probably on the subway line located at Yonge Street and Farnham Avenue.

Subjects

Signs and signboards

Stores, Retail

Women's clothing

Repro Restriction

Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.

Places

Farnham Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

53

Material Format

graphic material

Date

15 Nov. 1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the interior of the first Lady Ellis Shop located on the corner of Yonge and Adelaide Streets in Toronto. The photograph depicts many customers inside the store being shown merchandise by the sales women behind the counter.

Subjects

Consumers

Stores, Retail

Women's clothing

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Adelaide Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Ethel Mehr fonds

Level

Item

Fonds

68

Item

54

Material Format

graphic material

Date

15 Nov. 1946

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm

Scope and Content

This item is a photograph of the interior of the first Lady Ellis Shop located on the corner of Yonge and Adelaide Streets in Toronto. The photograph depicts many customers inside the store looking at merchandise.

Subjects

Consumers

Stores, Retail

Women's clothing

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Adelaide Street West (Toronto, Ont.)

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1988-12-3

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Harold S. Kaplan fonds

Architectural projects series

Loew's Theatre (189 Yonge St., Toronto) sub-series

Level

Sub-series

Fonds

27

Series

1-1

Material Format

architectural drawing

textual record

Date

1913-1959

Physical Description

57 drawings : pencil on tracing paper, blueprints and other reproductions ; 72 x 114 cm or smaller

1 cm of textual records

Admin History/Bio

Built in 1913, Loew's Yonge Street Theatre and Winter Garden Theatre complex was the flagship of Marcus Loew's Canadian theatre chain. The theatres were designed by Thomas Lamb as a "double-decker" theatre, with the Winter Garden located seven-stories above the street-level Yonge Street Theatre. This was the only double-decker theatre built in Canada and one of less than a dozen built internationally. The design was considered economical in that it provided a greater amount of seating on a given piece of real estate while allowing the theatre operator to present the same daily show in two theatres. The shows included both vaudeville acts and silent movies.

In 1928, there was a major fire on the site and the Winter Garden Theatre was closed due to the decline in popularity of vaudeville. By 1930, the Yonge Street Theatre was solely a movie theatre, equipped for sound movies. Over the years it gradually fell into disrepair, but continued as a movie theatre until 1981. It was renamed the Elgin Theatre in 1978.

In 1981, the Elgin and Winter Garden were purchased by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, and in 1987 the foundation began a two and half year, $30 million restoration of the theatres. The theatres re-opened in Dec. 1989 exclusively for theatrical productions.

Scope and Content

Sub-series consists of seating plans, blueprints of structural details, and floor plans, sections and elevations for successive alterations (to the entrance, lobby, basement, etc.) of the theatre. The sub-series includes a copy of a city building permit dating from 1934 for renovations carried out by Loew's Theatres Engineering Division. Some of the blueprints date from the original construction of the theatre in 1913.

The sub-series is organized into 9 sub-sub-series, corresponding to project dates of 1913, 1919, 1934, 1939, 1949 (two projects), 1952, 1957 and 1959. The earliest materials, such as those from 1913 and 1919, were not created by Kaplan & Sprachman, but were no doubt used as reference materials for their work at the theatre.

Please note that the blueprints of structural details such as columns and roof reinforcing beams may apply to the theatre complex as a whole, including the Winter Garden Theatre.

Notes

Title is derived from the formal titles of the drawings.

Name Access

Lamb, Thomas

Elgin Theatre (Toronto)

Winter Garden Theatre (Toronto)

Subjects

Theaters

Physical Condition

Some drawings are torn & damaged.

Some are discoloured or damaged by deteriorating pressure-sensitive tape.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

2003-6-1

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Gilbert Studios fonds

Miscellaneous collection series

Level

Item

Fonds

37

Series

9

Item

4

Material Format

graphic material

Date

1914

Physical Description

1 negative : b&w ; 11 x 13 cm

Admin History/Bio

Leon Koffler was born in Romania. He moved to Canada and settled in the Toronto area at the age of fifteen with his mother and his three sisters. Leon Koffler worked for Nelson's when he first moved to Canada as a fruit peddler. He graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy in 1921 and two years later opened his first pharmacy on College Street. Leon lived in the apartment above his store with his wife Tiana Koffler (née Reinhorn) and their son, Murray.

Scope and Content

Photograph is of Leon Koffler seated in a horse-drawn buggy, peddling fruit and vegetables at age eighteen.

The buggy has a Nelson's sign on it and the address for 460 Yonge Street.

Name Access

Koffler, Leon

Nelson's

Subjects

Immigrants--Canada

Peddlers

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Related Material

see also photographs: 37-S4-3-item-2, 37-S4-3-item-3, 37-S4-3-item-9, 37-S4-3-item-15

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Source

Archival Descriptions

Part Of

Scheuer family fonds

Level

File

Fonds

47

File

7

Material Format

graphic material

Date

[ca. 1930]

Physical Description

9 photographs : b&w (3 strips of 3 photographs) ; 6 x 8 cm (photo) 20 x 9 cm (strip)

Scope and Content

File consists of snapshots taken of Isadore Scheuer walking along Yonge Street in Toronto. There are three strips of photographs with three photographs on each strip. Isadore is shown walking along the street and sidewalk and there are passersby, shops, and cars in the background.

Subjects

Streets

Repro Restriction

Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.

Places

Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.)

Accession Number

1989-4-2

Source

Archival Descriptions

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