Rialto Theatre

27 sep
2014
Corner of Bank & Gladstone

Centretown

Bank Street, Fauna, Gladstone Avenue, Rialto Theatre

~1910

2014

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Ross Dunn

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The ambiance was preserved, but there is less density.

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Bank Street has a long legacy of being the commercial street as this archival photo shows with the numerous shops at the corner of Gladstone Avenue. Two elements caught our attention on the archival photo: the first one being the man in the forefront, potentially a postman from his uniform...

11 sep
2014
Bank & Gladstone Intersection

Centretown

Bank Street, Gladstone Avenue, The Central, Rialto Theatre

~1940

2014

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Urbsite

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Human-scale buildings. Lost of the Rialto. More vacant lots.

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Around 1940, the Gladstone Avenue and Bank Street intersection offered a great variety of shops and restaurants. Two lines of streetcars were present which one of them continued its route on Gladstone Avenue.Since several decades, the north side of this intersection is not getting anywhere or has even regressed with...