[PHOTO] Global Village Backpackers in the afternoon sun, King and Spadina

[rfmcdonald]

Global Village Backpackers, at 460 King Street West on the northwest corner of King and Spadina Avenue, closed down most unexpectedly on the 20th of January of this year. This ended the heritage building's history 139 years long of hosting one hotel or another. The building remains, obviously, in all of its blue-and-white glory, and the afternoon sun projected such a pattern that I just had to take a picture with my new smartphone.