Willybru21
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KIBO Market has been open for like 3 months lol, but DESI Market recently had its signage put up again
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Willybru21
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This is probably 10
GenerationLee
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Wait, IN the Via concourse? I never heard of shops being in the concourse itself. I wonder where, maybe by the seating to the side?
Willybru21
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They closed one of the alcoves for it, there’s technically 2 other areas on top of this one in the VIA Concourse that can have retail too:
Fritter
Active Member
I remember in the 80 a sit down Diner and other retailers in the VIA concourse.
Willybru21
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What section of the concourse was the restaurant in?
DSC
Superstar
I think at the very far end from the ramp from Great Hall - it was, if I am right, replaced by the VIA 1 lounge.
Northern Light
Superstar
The 'lounge'' in the concourse of Union Station was this:
Source: https://www.yelp.ca/biz/commuter-lounge-toronto
Upstairs, beside the Great Hall was Steak and Burger, a low-end chain from what was then CARA (owner of Harveys and Swiss Chalet); now Recipe Unlimited.
Before it was Steak and Burger, it was this:
Source: https://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/06/throwback-thursday-torontos-union-station.21424
This space became the VIA One Lounge.
Source: https://www.yelp.ca/biz/commuter-lounge-toronto
Upstairs, beside the Great Hall was Steak and Burger, a low-end chain from what was then CARA (owner of Harveys and Swiss Chalet); now Recipe Unlimited.
Before it was Steak and Burger, it was this:
Source: https://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/06/throwback-thursday-torontos-union-station.21424
This space became the VIA One Lounge.
PL1
Active Member
Easy to forget how dingy/dirty so many buildings were in the 70's and 80's...
APTA-2048
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Bojaxs
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Willybru21
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The two restaurants that recently closed in the food court now have hoarding up around them, I hope something more affordable and quick goes in there, because the last ones weren’t (still hoping for a New York Fries or Wendy’s)
Northern Light
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As a young child in the 70s, the coal as home heating fuel era had passed, but the legacy of stained buildings and other features of that recently passed era remained.
My grandmother's house in the Beach still had its 'coal room', where the delivery service used a chute similar to that for a cement truck to pour coal into a basement room with a dirt floor.
By then it had a proper window, but it was still exposed, uninsulated foundation, and a dirt floor, at a point where the rest of the basement had had concrete poured.
Many of the old Coal Silos still stood around the city though they were increasingly empty and awaiting demo, or had been repurposed.
Welcome to Mt. Pleasant, just north of the cemetery: (at Merton)
from: https://jamiebradburnwriting.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/20111011dominionsilos.jpg
The silos didn't actually come down until about the year 2000.
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Willybru21
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Almost looks ready
max
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Even way back then they were calling it "Clean Coal"
