The eastern entrance to Woodbine Mall in September 2022. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
A photograph by Philip Henry Delamotte of London's Crystal Palace in 1854, shortly after being moved to Penge Peak, Sydenham Hill, from Hyde Park, where it was constructed three years earlier.
A circa 1880 photograph, possibly by James Esson, of the Crystal Palace built in 1858 on the grounds of the Provincial Agricultural Fair of Canada West (now the CNE). It was modelled on London's Crystal Palace and burned down in 1906. (Image via the TPL.)
(Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
(Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
(Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
Looking east through the top of Fantasy Fair's Ferris wheel on the second storey of the mall. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
View looking east from inside the mall's eastern entrance lobby, where the Ferris wheel occupies part of the ground floor. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
Looking southeast through Fantasy Fair amusement park at the building's plate glass wall and vaulted ceiling that so resemble those of London's Victorian Crystal Palace. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
A skylight above the multi-level soft kids play area in Fantasy Fair amusement park. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
(Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
Curved skylights bearing stylistic nods to the circular windows of the building's iconic eastern arched entrance façade. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
Curved skylights bearing stylistic nods to the circular windows of the building's iconic eastern arched entrance façade. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
The Woodbine Mall concourse. Its elevator and large dais are designed to echo the building's iconic eastern arched entrance façade. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
A skylight in the Woodbine Mall food court. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
The mall's southwestern entrance echoes the glass arched façade of its eastern entrance. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
The mall's southeastern entrance echoes the glass arched façade of its eastern entrance. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni.)
The mall's eastern arched entranced in construction on January 4, 1985. (Image via the Toronto Public Library.)
The mall's eastern arched entranced shortly after completion on August 1, 1985. (Image via the Toronto Public Library.)
The mall's eastern arched entranced in 1994. (Image via UrbanToronto.)
Woodbine Mall's floor plan in 1985. (Image via UrbanToronto.)
A 1985 aerial photo of Rexdale Boulevard and Highway 27 indicating the newly constructed Woodbine Mall. (Image courtesy of the City of Toronto.)
The Fantasy Fair Express children's train in 1995. (Photo credit: Alessandro Tersigni)
