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A little fern-filled Vancouver in Toronto
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
Yonge north of Lawrence continues the default low-rise retail until arriving at the end of the old City of Toronto, where Yonge Street dips…
Yonge north of Lawrence continues the default low-rise retail until arriving at the end of the old City of Toronto, where Yonge Street dips…
Christmas carols at Simpson's
You don't need to live in Toronto to have a Yonge Street story... in fact I had a Yonge Street story long before I ever saw Toronto.
Back in the 1960s the staff and shoppers at the Simpson's store at Yonge and Queen sang Christmas Carols every…
Back in the 1960s the staff and shoppers at the Simpson's store at Yonge and Queen sang Christmas Carols every…
Tags: Christmas, Christmas carols, read, shopping, simpsons, story, yonge street
Early Toronto gay bars
It was here that Toronto's early gay bars were located, including the St. Charles Tavern at 488 Yonge (a former firehall that today sports a recently refurbished Victorian clock tower) and the Parkside Tavern at 530 Yonge (now a twenty-four-hour…
Finch at nearly the top
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
The condo towers begin to thin out at Finch, and the remainder of Yonge and North York is low-rise-and-bungalow-heavy. Though there are…
The condo towers begin to thin out at Finch, and the remainder of Yonge and North York is low-rise-and-bungalow-heavy. Though there are…
Tags: bidet4u, finch avenue, lester b. pearson, newtonbrook, North York, read, story, ttc, viva, yonge street
John Dillinger in Toronto?
The infamous bank robber John Dillinger was shot and killed by police just outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934. I'm not sure what movie he saw, but it certainly was his last. The Biograph Theater saved the chair that he sat in that…
North Toronto Station is no longer in North Toronto (not even midtown)
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
The refurbished North Toronto Train Station, built in 1916 at Summerhill by the firm Darling and Pearson (they also did the Dominion Bank…
The refurbished North Toronto Train Station, built in 1916 at Summerhill by the firm Darling and Pearson (they also did the Dominion Bank…
North Toronto Super Canopy
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
Towards Lawrence, Yonge defaults low again, another pleasant strip of pleasant stores. The area is perhaps a little more diverse than…
Towards Lawrence, Yonge defaults low again, another pleasant strip of pleasant stores. The area is perhaps a little more diverse than…
Pierce-Arrow Showroom
Remember Pierce-Arrow? Not many of us do. It was an American company that manufactured luxury cars from 1901 - 1938. From 1930 to 1937, Toronto's Pierce-Arrow showroom was located at 1140 Yonge Street, at the corner of Yonge and Marlborough. The…
Tags: automobiles, cars, Pierce-Arrow, read, story, yonge street
SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT YONGE STREET
Like all my grandparents eight sons, the eldest - my Uncle Hugh - had an unquenchable thirst for adventure and wealth - wealth, meaning security, in those days. In his early twenties, he and a younger brother, Harry, took off for the gold fields,…