[PHOTO] That was Amore

934 Manning Avenue, located on the south side of Dupont Street one-third of the way east from Christie Street to Bathurst Street, once housed the restauant Papa Mios, then later Amore Fine Foods, and now currently houses an empty storefront. Walking by one day, I thought I'd take some quick pictures of the premises.

Here's the storefront.



Here's the door.



The glass window reflects the exterior and lets the almost-empty interior remain visible.



More of the kitchen is visible through the glass.

[FORUM] What do you know of that seemed like a good idea at the time?

Today's [PHOTO] post, to the extent that it had a theme, was about things which seemed like good ideas but eventually came apart. At one point someone thought that building an Italian sandwich shop with a sideline in catering on that northern perimeter of the Annex which is Dupont Street was a good idea. Maybe it was a good idea for a time. The name change and the empty storefront leave me thinking that, eventually, it stopped being a good idea.

That's a story of one sandwich shop in one neighbourhood. On the same scale, there are many other restaurants--and shops, and sundry other attractions--in many other neighbourhoods that had similar fates. On smaller scales, there are individual projects; on larger scales, there are great endeavours. My friend Stephen has argued that the 1960s-era dream of manned space travel might be such a project.

You? What do you have in mind?

Discuss.