Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Tuesday Treasures

 Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

Toronto ON

W.H. Paterson of the TTC’s Engineering Department commissioned Sigmund Serafin in 1957 to create these illustrations. The paintings were created prior to the construction of the Bloor-Danforth-University Subway line and show proposed street-level or cross-sectional views of subway stations.
From the City of Toronto website.

Sherbourne


St. Patrick


St. George


Bloor-Yonge


Broadview



8 comments:

  1. Not too much imagination used with the trains travelling along the subway. He may be surprised to now see your green and white strangely shaped trains.

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  2. Very interesting and very well done.

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  3. Thank you for showing me such a wonderful place from old times

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  4. Very kewl layouts

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  5. ...how did the project turn out?

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  6. Such cool pieces! Dated but so very imaginative.

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  7. This is my fourth time trying to leave a comment on this post. Blogger HATES me. These are really quite lovely. I adore the mid-century modern feel to these drawings. They are certainly from an era long gone.

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