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still hanging in there......
She's been 'hanging' all over the Yonge and Eglinton area since my childhood. She moves like a Dowager with a purpose. Early 60s: Yonge and Castlefield NW corner. 70s: Eglinton TTC station. 80s: Yonge and Erskine SE corner. 90s to the present day: here at the Yonge Eglinton Centre. What can be more wonderful in this day and age than pointing to something behind glass and asking the clerk: "I'll have 4 of those and 6 of these"?
Other Yonge Eg nabe nonsense:
A few doors south of Yonge and Erskine on the east side of Yonge was Peter Oliver's first food business - a bakery. He'd been inspired by the very busy neighbourhood institution 'Little Pie Shop' at Yonge and Briar Hill a few blocks north. This was 1978 or so when he opened his place. It didn't last long. I guess it didn't make money for him but I had no criticisms of the place as a bakery. I can still picture the thank you-and-goodbye note in the window.
The Little Pie Shops location is now occupied by The Little Party Shop. It's owned by the daughter of Mrs. Keurble, who owned the Little Pie Shop. Mrs. Keurble left us only a couple of years ago; she had to have been close to 100. She used to give out made-for-the-purpose smaller sized cookies free to children. Smart marketing. Their signature sugar cookie had a dot of red jam in the centre that my then toddler daughter called a 'booger snookie'.
Some bakeries now give out benefit cuts to young employees but I digress.
The movie theatres inside Yonge Eg Centre carry on the tradition of long gone neighbourhood movie houses that served this area in decades past: the 'Capitol' at Yonge and Castlefield, the 'Park' at Yonge and Glenforest, the 'Hollywood' at Yonge and St. Clair, and of course we can't leave out the 'Eglinton' at Eglinton and Avenue Road.
I prefer the better seats and inclined stadium seating of modern cinemas actually. Nostalgia for old school movie houses is more romantic than 'practic'; to me.