Something like getting around on the subways and visiting different stops has the potential to be made into an interesting board game, I would think.

This is the very strangest thread, in some ways a distillation of the different points of view that one sees on the forum. A few comments: When you make demands on a private company they could walk away. - where to even start addressing a comment like that. As far as I'm concerned, Ripleys...

boom's is a good question. I live in Toronto because I chose to live here, and I quite love it. I've always wondered why someone would waste their life in a place they don't like. I grew up in Ottawa, which I still enjoy visiting and have warm memories of, but did not see myself staying there. I...

I see that Ripleys Aquarium in Myrtle Beach is ranked 24 out of 86 attractions on TripAdvisor (Side: There are eighty-six attractions in Myrtle Beach? Are they counting some of the grains of sand?). I don't think this bodes well for ours, though the one in Gatlinburg seems more popular. I...

Actually, kristopher, maybe we have some taste. Have you been to cities that are more "demanding"? Not always so pleasant. You need to see more, browse less, pay attention to what you are seeing, and believe me, this won't seem so bad. Though, I have to say, I walked around this complex a...

This is it - Eustace Bird was the architect. It's not a great image, from the Star online. It would have been nice if this were to have been built, no?

Wylie, Here is a proposal that will be in TOBuilt when I next update. It's from 1926, and would have been at the intersection of King & Yonge. I forget the architect just now, but have the info at home.

TOBuilt is complete with respect to 12-storeys and above buildings; it is not complete for shorter buildings, though they are sometimes included. Transamerica is now known as Aegon Place, and is on the list. Most of the stuff for York University, Ryerson etc. could be included but would not...

Re: Moving Fort York. I understand where Beez is coming from, in that the Fort's sandwiched location between railway tracks and an expressway does not serve it well, and I think his idea is to highlight the fort and make it more pleasant to visit. However, the logic that moving the fort...

Dugmor, not to be unkind, but we've mentioned the ARP many times in many threads here. I'm ready to acronymize. Also, you can't send nothing to a review, something has to exist and I guess this is the starting point.

At the rate things are going down south, we may be able to buy the original and get it shipped up here free of charge.

We can only hope that this proposal, which I agree sits like a drab sore thumb at the base of the tower, fails as so many have before it. Wrong building in the wrong place.

I am indifferent to owning a subway map from the cars. What I really want someone to steal for me is one of the big, metal PATH maps, now quite out date and perhaps ready for refreshing. They are quite lovely and so very impractical and expensive to produce that it makes me want one very badly...

Says Yonge Street Shabby; Has Mean Shop Fronts From the Star, January 31, 1927, Page 1 John M. Lyle Strongly Criticizes Appearance of Business Streets I doubt if any city in the world of a similar size can show a shabbier street than Yonge street; a mean lot of shops, or a worse...

Good on the province for doing this. I must say, I'm surprised. The company that was trashing this building must be very, very surprised by the publicity and now the stop work order on the building. It's clear that what will happen is that it will be designated, and his project is now some years...

DSC, your answer is correct, but to some extent glosses over the fact that there are 158 historic sites that are administered by Parks Canada and paid for entirely by the feds, while there are an additional 800 or so "designated" National Historic sites that receive a designation but no ongoing...

Admiral, I couldn't agree more. Fort York should be a federally-administered National Heritage Site, no questions asked. It's a crime that it isn't. I find it quite amazing that you can go to this map and not find a single Parks Canada site in Canada's largest city.

Speaking as one of the greater group, I will support adma in this discussion, and his frustration with Eug's no-nothingness on heritage issues. Please don't speak for me, or take my relative lack of posting in this lacklustre argument to signify any kind of agreement with anything Eug has said.

Don't see a thread for this. I am very pleased to see this building repurposed, I hope some of the handsome industrial features of the building are preserved. Etobicoke plant to become film studio GUY DIXON - Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 12:00AM EST Last...