{"id":26373,"date":"2023-07-17T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T05:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26373"},"modified":"2023-07-13T22:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T02:57:42","slug":"once-was-not-a-hotel-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/once-was-not-a-hotel-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"once was not a hotel nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26374\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Notman-Fraser-and-H.F.Simpson-Photographer-39-43-King-St.-E.-Toronto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26374\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Notman-Fraser-and-H.F.Simpson-Photographer-39-43-King-St.-E.-Toronto-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notman&#8217;s foothold in the Big Smoke<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. You may not recognize the area today, but in Notman&#8217;s day this building on the southeast side of King St (39-43 King Street East) was the studio associated with Montreal&#8217;s famous Notman Studio. Notman became renown for his studio&#8217;s portraits and composites, many of which are identified. Records, photos, and ephemera on Notman are housed at the McCord Museum in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the area includes the King Eddie at 37 King St East. Years ago, I was sequestered in the King Eddie. A few decades later, Ron Anger and I visited the hallowed building (showing its age by then) to see if it was suitable for our fair (it wasn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>For more comments on the area check out a<a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/forum\/threads\/miscellany-toronto-photographs-then-and-now.6947\/page-1038\"> post by &#8216;egotrippin&#8217;part way down this page<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/\">Urban Toronto<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to good friend, George Dunbar, for the link and photo. Our late editor, Bob Lansdale, also a professional photographer, researched this area of Toronto in the 1800s and found many studios clustered around King and Yonge, George also posts on Urban Toronto using a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pen_name\">nom de plume<\/a> like others on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. You may not recognize the area today, but in Notman&#8217;s day this building on the southeast side of King St (39-43 King Street East) was the studio associated with Montreal&#8217;s famous Notman Studio. Notman became renown for his studio&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/once-was-not-a-hotel-nearby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4386,4387,4385,138,495,348,4384],"class_list":["post-26373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-fraser","tag-h-f-simpson","tag-king-east","tag-notman","tag-photograph","tag-studio","tag-yonge-and-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26378,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions\/26378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}