Union Station has been undergoing various revitalization projects dating back to 2010, and after 14 consecutive years of non-stop construction, people are waxing nostalgic about all the changes at the bustling Toronto transit hub.

The City finally deemed the long-term revitalization of the grand railway station complete back in 2021, but the multimodal train/subway/streetcar hub is still very much an active construction site as work on other large-scale upgrades presses on.

In fact, it's hard to remember a time before the station's 2010-started facelift, with almost a decade and a half of dust and noise fogging our collective memory of what once was.

A post on X highlighting the old Bay GO Concourse has stirred up nostalgia about the station's pre-renovation form.

The distinctive mustard-toned tile-clad concourse, demolished in 2015 and reopened with a sterile but expanded replacement in 2021, seems like a distant memory nine years after its closure.

nothing like Yellow Everything to calm the mind

— 🙂 (@damnaine) August 13, 2024

Aside from the striking but admittedly dated visuals, the number one thing people seemed to miss about pre-reno Union Station was the Harvey's, which was slanging burgers in a somewhat out-of-place location amid the station's opulent Great Hall.

Let’s get a @HarveysCanada back in Toronto Union. https://t.co/vIe3OFkx32

— Alex Glista 🇨🇦 (@AlexanderGlista) August 16, 2024

The aggressive but familiar smell of Cinnabon was once pervasive throughout Union Station, but now only lives on in the memories of commuters.

It smelled like 50% Cinnabon and 50% McDonald’s fryer grease

— Eóin MacGabhann (@emacgabhann) August 14, 2024

Others had fond memories of visiting the station's former Dairy Queen location, like one user who remembered grabbing Blizzards after attending Raptors games across the street at what was then known as the Air Canada Centre.

THE DAIRY QUEEN 😭😭

— ppolow (@ppolow_) August 15, 2024

Some lost eateries with Union outposs have not stood the test of time in the years since the station went under the knife. One example is the now-defunct chain Marvellous Mmmuffins, or mmmuffins, which has been reduced to a single location in Montreal as of the 2020s.

RIP forever mmmmmuffins 💔

— 🌈 (@yyzvee) August 14, 2024

Now approaching its 100th anniversary coming up in 2027, Union Station will enter its second century of moving (and feeding) Toronto passengers with a vastly different look and feel than on opening day all those years ago.