25 photos of what Toronto looked like in the 2000s

From all of the vibrant record shops that once lined Yonge Street to the city's evolving skyline, Toronto looked a little different in the early 2000s than it does today.

Yonge-Dundas Square (now Sankofa Square) was still finding its footing, Sam the Record Man still towered high above Yonge Street, and Stollery's was a familiar landmark on Bloor Street.

The following 25 photos capture Toronto as it was between 2000 and 2012, revisiting some of the city's most recognizable streets, landmarks, and storefronts that have since changed, remained frozen in time, or disappeared entirely.

Here's what Toronto looked like in the 2000s.

Bicycle parking on the northwest corner of Queen and Soho, looking east in 2001. 

Formwork for new deck slab and north side of Gardiner Expressway near Logan Avenue. August 2000. 

Roy's Square (lost to One Bloor East), east side of Yonge Street in 2008. 

Ship Channel from the roof of Hearn Generating Station in 2001.

Future Ship and Sam the Record Man awaiting demolition in 2007. Little Italy, sometime between 2006 and 2012. 

Inglis remediation site at Strachan Avenue in 2002. 

Stolley's and Sunrise Records, southwest corner of Bloor Street in 2007. 

Looking northeast from Dundas Street in 2006. 

Zanzibar Tavern on Yonge Street in 2007. 

King and John Streets, sometime between 2006 and 2012. 

Nathan Phillips Square in 2004. Photo: Zwergelstern/Wikimedia Commons. 

Looking south at Gould Street in 2006. 

621-625 Queen St. W. fire damage in 2008. 

Looking northwest at College Street in 2008.

Yonge-Dundas fountains in 2004. Photo: Steve Mann/Wikimedia Commons. 

Lake Shore Boulevard, east of Leslie Street, looking west. Photo: Diego Silvestre/Wikimedia Commons. 

Looking south from the northeast corner of Bloor Street in 2007. 

View of the Toronto skyline from the Port Lands. Photo: Diego Silvestre/Wikimedia Commons.

The Black Bull on Queen Street West, sometime between 2006 and 2012.

Dundas Square and Dundas Street East in 2009. 

Inglis remediation site, looking east toward Strachan Avenue in 2002. 

Guess store (now a Foot Locker) at 306 Yonge St. in 2007. 

Looking southwest from north of Shuter Street in 2009. 

Looking south from the northwest corner of Bloor Street in 2009.