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[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links
Oct. 26th, 2019 06:13 pm- blogTO looks at the Toronto of the 1950s, when Highway 2--Lake Shore and Kingston Road--was the way into the city.
- Jamie Bradburn takes a look at a 1950 tourist guide to Ontario, specifically focusing on its descriptions of Toronto.
- Jamie Bradburn looks at how, in the post-war era, dining at the Coxwell Kresge in-house restaurant was a thing.
- blogTO notes how many in Leslieville are unhappy with the idea of the Ontario Line being built above-ground.
- Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto notes that there is going to be a Pride rally outside of Palmerston library where Meghan Murphy will be speaking.
- Spacing looks at the connections between Nuit Blanche and the Toronto Biennial, for Toronto as an artistic city.
- NOW Toronto shares some photos of Honest Ed's in its dying days.
- Toronto Life tells the story of Peperonata Lane, a west-end laneway that took its name from a popular neighbourhood pepper-roasting event.
- blogTO notes a new movie being filmed in Regent Park, here.
- blogTO shares photos of the new Garrison Crossing pedestrian bridge, here.
<.center>I had yesterday off, and slept in late, so I only ended up getting out of my apartment and onto my street by 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The white-out conditions surprised me: I could barely see to the end of the block.
Still, I was up, I was dressed, and I was already out. I took first the 29 Dufferin bus south and then the subway east over to Bathurst and Bloor to do some errands.
(The site of the old Honest Ed’s, currently a construction site, struck me as very photo-worthy with its warm bright colours.)
I ended up afterwards taking a little trip and headed west to Jane station, there to board the 26 Dupont bus and be dropped off practically at my warm home at 5 o’clock, with my cats and with my storm chips.
I just hope I will not have to dig out too much snow tomorrow morning.
Still, I was up, I was dressed, and I was already out. I took first the 29 Dufferin bus south and then the subway east over to Bathurst and Bloor to do some errands.
(The site of the old Honest Ed’s, currently a construction site, struck me as very photo-worthy with its warm bright colours.)
I ended up afterwards taking a little trip and headed west to Jane station, there to board the 26 Dupont bus and be dropped off practically at my warm home at 5 o’clock, with my cats and with my storm chips.
I just hope I will not have to dig out too much snow tomorrow morning.
- Toronto's Chinatown on Spadina Avenue is facing pressures from gentrification, including architectural ones, the Toronto Star observes.
- blogTO notes that the building housing shop Alternative Thinking is the only survivor of the old Honest Ed's-anchored Mirvish Village.
- Urban Toronto shares revised plans for 2452 Bloor Street West, in Bloor West Village near Jane.
- Black people in Toronto tend to live in "segregated" neighbourhoods, census and other data suggest, according to this article in the Toronto Star.
- Global News notes the demand of privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian for the data being gathered by Waterfront Toronto in the Quayside project.
- Urban Toronto looks at Honest Ed's one year ago and at the site now.
- Urban Toronto looks at how the exterior of 411 Church, at Church and Carlton, is fast approaching completion.
- A highly contagious disease called Newcastle disease is killing cormorants along the Toronto waterfront. CBC reports.
- Tammy Thorne at NOW Toronto looks at the factors behind the spread of cycling in Scarborough, here.
- Jamie Bradburn shares some old articles offering advice to the Water Nymphs women's swimming club of the 1920s.
[PHOTO] West past where Honest Ed's was
Apr. 20th, 2018 10:30 amI was walking west on Bloor past Bathurst Street last night when I took at the space where Honest Ed's used to be. There's still nothing there, only a wire fence separating the space of the former Honest Ed's from Bathurst to the east and a more robust and lit pathway solidly blocked off to the north.
- The demolition of Honest Ed's revealed ghost ads on the walls of the buildings amalgamated into that storied complex. blogTO reports.
- Support for the King Street pilot project is down, polls suggest. blogTO reports.
- That the TTC and Metrolinx are disputing the costs associated with Presto makes the whole thing ridiculous. The Toronto Star covers it.
- This summary of the TTC errors and passenger issues that made the commute of the 30th of January so challenging is disturbing. The Toronto Star reports.
- Steve Munro writes about the capacity crisis on the TTC, especially the subway lines.
It's the end of an era. Had I not gone last evening, there would have been nothing at all left of the sign, not even the stub.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
Galbraith also assembled a video of this icon's demolition, from drone footage.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
Galbraith also assembled a video of this icon's demolition, from drone footage.
It's the end of an era. Had I not gone last evening, there would have been nothing at all left of the sign, not even the stub.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
- The story of Toronto's "Crane Girl", photographed stuck on a crane high above Wellesley Street, has come to an end with an absolute discharge. The National Post reports.
- Alternative Thinking is unique among the stores once sheltered around Honest Ed's in continuing to hang on. The Toronto Star reports.
- Toronto has desperate need of affordable rental housing for the masses. Torontoist takes a look at the NIMBYs opposing one much-needed project.
- Steve Munro at Torontoist takes an extended look at the data from the King Street pilot streetcar project. Some metrics seem encouraging, but more data--and a longer period of testing--is needed.
- I look forward to seeing the various public art projects which will be decorating the stations of the Eglinton Crosstown line. The Toronto Star reports.
- The suggestion of Peter Apswoude at NOW Toronto that Etobicoke is trending towards more denser development, including an actual downtown, is encouraging for the evolution of that Toronto area.
- CBC's Matthew Braga takes a look at the implications of the involvement of Sidewalk Labs, of Google, in the development of Quayside for privacy rights. How much data will be given up, exactly?
Last year's Honest Ed's Station (#honestedstation) event, remembering Honest Ed's in vintage signage at Bathurst Station, is mostly over. I did find, in a side entrance at the station, some few remaining artifacts, mostly arrays of photos showing the activity that once filled that store at its peak. I hope they will stay: public memory matters.
[PHOTO] Honest Ed's from the north
May. 19th, 2017 12:20 pm
The Honest Ed's sign will be taken down in a week for relocation, and the building torn down later. Taking photo will soon be impossible.
I was amused to see this neatly framed old sign from Honest Ed's in the window of Soho Art Custom Framing on 77 Roncesvalles Avenue. From ad to art--high-priced art, too, I'm sure.
blogTO's Derek Flack shares links and images of the plans for Mirvish Village in five years' time.
With the doors to Honest Ed's officially closed for good, it's time to turn our attention to the future of Mirvish Village. We now have a much better of idea of what it'll look like that thanks to the most recent planning documents filed by site developer Westbank.
The Honest Ed's and Mirvish Village project has undergone extensive revisions in response to community consultation, heritage evaluation and municipal feedback. Now in its third iteration, the plans are starting to resemble what we might see in the next few years.
Some of the highlights from the most recent renderings of the project include a sprawling public park that stretches out from Markham Street, a slick new market building that'll span 20,000-plus square feet, and a micro retail corridor roughly where Honest Ed's Alley once was.
