[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Eglinton Avenue, Raptors, Selim Esin, video stores, clock tower

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares photos of what Eglinton Avenue used to look like, transitioning from a rural route in the 1930s to a burgeoning suburban stretch in the 1960s.


• CBC reports on Jorge Giuria, a man who became famous when, in 1995, his job as a model made him one of the first people to wear the jersey of the Toronto Raptors.


• Wendy Gillis at the Toronto Star reports on the memorial service held earlier this month for Selim Esin, one of the victims of the Church and Wellesley serial killer, at St. Stephen's-in-the-Fields.


• CBC reports that some of the venerable video stores of Toronto have not just survived streaming video but are thriving.


• Urban Toronto notes that the famous 1871 clock tower on Yonge north of College has been successfully moved, the better to integrate into a new condo façade.

Comments

[conuly]

Formatting's screwed up on your second link.