FYI the biggest cause of kitchen fires in the UK is people going home drunk after a night at the pub and deciding they feel like a batch of chips before they go to bed, so they turn on the deep fryer...! Our favourite food at the CNE was the Lancia pavilion in the Food Building, a platform...

Mr Fran lived near me when I was growing up. On Hallowe'en he gave out triangular coupons for a free slice of pie at Frans restaurant. I think he gave out candy too, otherwise I would have felt pretty ripped off. My mother still has a coupon or two in the drawer, we never used them. I used...

How poignant! Funny, the canary doesn't look like a former school--it has a long loading platform on the south side. Being gone for so long, I missed a lot of closures, like restaurants. I'm sad to hear China House, on Eglinton W of Bathurst is closing. I went as a child to the Moonglow...

Drove by here today--what happened with the Canary? I couldn't believe my eyes. Have they saved the signs to be replaced when the redevelopment of the area is finished? Where will low-budget American movies benefitting from Canadian tax breaks film the external shots of an old-school diner in...

My mother and her friend were reminiscing recently about going to Ports of Call, in the early 60s, I think. My mothers friend was a well-known Toronto model and she remembered posing on an elephant outside of Ports of Call for a photo shoot! i believe she was even newly pregnant at the time...