I wish that we could have somehow had a person who, in the not so distant past, had a sense of the future. I see all of these wonderful (yet gritty/dirty) architectural treasures. If only someone had existed and said, back when, "you'll rue the days you'll never have nor see these types of buildings again...protect them". I look at the pictures filled with these distinctive old buildings and envision them, not unlike the ones today that have survived, cleaned up and refitted.......an enormous historical district....one surrounded by the Toronto of today....filled with tall buildings. The whole city would be like the Distillery District. We'd be a historical masterpiece worth any tourist coming to visit. No one would refer to us as a relatively young, modern city. I hate when I read that.....it makes us sound as though we we started building yesterday...and quite frankly, in many places, it looks like that would be anyone's "truth".