Three thoughts; You were just walking by? It looks like old timey window lettering but the modern area code gives it away. There are secrets in that attic; or a lot of neat old stuff.

Goldie, that is just. So cool. :)

Heya, let's go to 2 College and ride an ancient elevator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2M9PeC1_A

<poke> Fell asleep didn't ya? A History of Laura Secord Candies in North Toronto. :) Eating their fine candies and partaking of their 'old school' retail service experience is a distinctly multi-generational Toronto pleasure that many of us take for granted. Perhaps even, many here have...

Heya Anna, Thanks! The Roots store took over 3 retail spaces. That's why the frontage is so wide. At the south end there was a coffee shop of - I'm guessing - 40s vintage that survived up until the 70s - all formica and chrome and a counter with stools. The north end - where the Roots...

You're most welcome!

I went to the Yonge Eglinton area between Christmas and New Years to help out my parents with a few things. They bought a house in this area 60 years ago this year. They're still independent too; which is kind of neat. So then, please accompany me on a little North Toronto historical walk...

Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris https://www.lensculture.com/articles/christopher-rauschenberg-rephotographing-atget

One of our keen eyed UT forummers took some additional pictures of the uncovered Esplanade rail. He sent them to me to host and post. There are also piles and foundations in these pictures:

A 1990s Toronto photo extravaganza http://www.blogto.com/city/2014/12/a_1990s_toronto_photo_extravaganza/

I'm game: It's obviously Toronto; standing in as New York? And,... the film set is SUITS; just another guess. I've seen their sets around Toronto and seen their props.

Just revisiting the Worlds Biggest Bookstore/Olympia Bowling conversation we had recently... That's the 1973 Yonge street mall in the distance. They did this for a couple of years. The street was completely closed to traffic. Every teenager in the city converged at the time. You would...

Naval related archaeology has always fascinated me. Since my son signed on as a reserve RCN sailor I've been digging into Canadian and Commonwealth naval history. I came across the history of this Australian ship that still exists as a breakwater. Neat to read about and see...

One of the great spaces in Toronto - to me - is the great hall in our Union Station. This ceiling puts me in a contemplative mood; thinking of all those who've passed underneath it; yada yada... :) Unlike the ceilings in some of our grander churches; this one can be enjoyed nonsecularily...

I like how you can see across the street in the reflection. Quite neat.

I'm good brewster; was looking over your past contributions in some of the other threads...

Heya brewster, how's it going?

Downsview park today. I was there for a day of work at the new ice hockey arena. This whole area was once an air force base and manufacturing site for the WWII war effort [for the benefit of you out-of-towners]. I post my picture as well as an old one I found on the internets when I came home...

Somebody should have saved that Olympia Bowling sign.