whatever
Senior Member
Speaking of Book City, does anyone know why the one at Yonge and Charles bit the dust? I don't think there any warning, I just popped by one day to peruse the clearance tables and found the place gutted.
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urbandreamer
recession proof
My favourite Toronto bookstore: http://www.pandemonium.ca/
http://www.blogto.com/announcements/2008/01/pandemonium_bookstore_in_the_junction/
http://www.blogto.com/announcements/2008/01/pandemonium_bookstore_in_the_junction/
deerparker
Active Member
That location opened when the store at Yonge & St. Clair closed for the construction of its new home in the Clairmont. The store at Yonge & Charles closed shortly after the St. Clair store's reopening.
whatever
Senior Member
Really? I've been going into the Yonge/Charles one for almost seven years, I had no idea it was a temp.
deerparker
Active Member
JasonParis
Moderator
I think it was open for maybe 3 years max.
It does seem a bit odd that the fate of the two have been tied together. The Yonge & Charles and Yonge & St. Clair locations aren't so close that they would be cannibalizing each others walk-in traffic, and do people travel a huge distance to go to those stores anyway? I think they could have kept both afloat.
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March 28
Book City sign is now installed.
Book City sign is now installed.
deerparker
Active Member
This Ain't the Rosedale Library is moving to Kensington Market.
JasonParis
Moderator
...and thereby closing the Church Street location?
deerparker
Active Member
Yes. They will run two locations for about a month and then there will just be the one in Kensington.
ShonTron
Moderator
Anyone know a good place to buy street maps downtown? I am looking for a decent, up-to-date street map of Boston. It seems that Chapters/Indigo has been supplied with absolute garbage for US maps lately - instead of the medicore green Rand McNally maps (relative to MapArt, the Gold Standard), they now stock these crappy blue Champion maps. You know, where the colours are for municipalities, not land use, and the highway ramps are impossible to see. World's Biggest has no Boston maps (but lots of Branson, Missouri - they sure know their market!), the Indigo at Eaton Centre did, but they're not only bad, they're dated 1998! So the Big Dig is not included at all!
Observer Walt
Senior Member
Sounds poor! Can they "special order" for you, or does that work only for books?
adma
Superstar
What's that place in the basement at the SE corner Adelaide + Toronto? It's been there for eons...
ShonTron
Moderator
Apparently not. It's not them, it's their distributor. Someone's doing well out of this.
The MapArt maps are up-to-date, of course.
I dislike Chapters/Indigo for many reasons, but I thought for a simple street map, it'd be fine.