This post is a continuation of the previous post, titled Croft Street.
There is a red, white and blue mural at the south end of Croft Street. It covers the side of a three story brick building.
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flat black apartments at 396
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Posr on Croft Street
Posted: November 5, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: brick wall, hidden doors, mailboxes, mural, photos, posr, rabbits, red and white, street art, Toronto
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Croft Street
Posted: November 5, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, Always, brick wall, cat, colours, Croft St., face, garage door, garages, graffiti, head, lane, Monty, MUHA, murals, photographs, photos, poetry, rain, rust, stencils, street art, Toronto, wood, words
Croft Street is not a street, but it’s more than a lane.
It runs between Harbord Street and College Street, just west of Bathurst Street. Although there are many different interesting things to be seen when you walk along this street, I have chosen to focus on the street art for this blog post. The following is a selection of what I saw.
surveying the scene
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a closer look
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paint and rust
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can’t sleep so I write
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Harbord street sign
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Did you know our Monty the cat?
King of Croft and all that
(Ask your dog. Ask your cat)
Did you give him a pet
Once you had met?
Or tickle his soft silken tum tum?
Did he tell you his tale in articulate meow
And share his affection with a rub of his brow?
His loss here has left us really quite blue
But remembering all of those of YOU
Who knew how to share a sweet kindness true
Who would pause on the way,
In midst of each day,
To offer wee beastie
affectionate feastie
In Memory of Monty
Thank you!
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painted cat on painted window sill on painted brick wall
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on the streets of Toronto
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hidden doorway
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tutti frutti
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with hands on hips and with added words
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art at the front door
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greenery
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black and white and red all over
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Here I stand in silence
but the patter of the rain
who I was, you’ll never know;
my triumph
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staring eyes
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mail man
At the south end of the street, there is a large red, white and blue mural by posr. I have not included it in this blog post because it warrants a post of its own. It’s the next blog post, or the URL is https://mcfcrandall.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/posr-on-croft-street/
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paper people
Posted: October 25, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, big ears, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bill Murray, black and white, broom, deadboy, drawings, everything made him happy, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, lane, Leonard Cohen, paper, people, photos, Rob Ford, stencils, street art, Toronto, woman
paper people of Graffiti Alley
Three Bills
This is now a recurring theme in stencil/paper graffiti. Originally, the Bills were used in response to ‘post no bills’ signs on fences surrounding construction sites.
The Bills here, from left to right, are Bill Gates, Bill Murray and Bill Clinton
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In the fall of 2011, many of these Rob Ford stencils appeared in Graffiti Alley, amongst other places. They were the work of Toronto street artist, Deadboy. This might be the only one that remains in this alley.
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Leonard Cohen: “only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy”
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“I don’t do floors”
“Clean it up yourself”
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big ears and the astronaut
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I have not included all the stencils in Graffiti Alley as some have appeared in prior posts. See https://mcfcrandall.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/walking-graffiti-alley-again/
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alien in the alley
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With thanks to:
Georgette for her help with the three Bills
and Sally who recognized Leonard Cohen.
uber Pizza Pizza
Posted: October 4, 2013 in graffiti and street art, UncategorizedTags: chickens, intersection, Kingston Rd., mural, octopus, pizza pizza, street art, Toronto, uber, uber5000, urban
I had seen pictures of the mural painted earlier this year by Uber 5000 on the Pizza Pizza outlet at Victoria Park & Kingston Road. Yesterday I found myself in that neighbourhood so I stopped to take a couple of photos too. The afternoon sun made for some strong shadows along the west side of the building.
on the northeast corner of Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue
When I was looking online to find out more information about this mural, I discovered that Uber 5000 has a blog too. If you are interested in his work, take a look at his website.
up in the trees on a sunny day
Chickens chilling out on the west side of the building.
A very happy octopus covers most of the north side of the building – great pairing of the air vents and octopus tentacles.
happily playing in the water
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alley detour
Posted: October 1, 2013 in graffiti and street artTags: CN Tower, doors, garages, graffiti, great wall of China, hi buddy, mural, my spot, poles, Toronto, words
Late last week a friend and I were walking to the Kensington area to take some pictures. We almost didn’t get there because we were distracted by a number of small alleys along the way. This is a small sample of what we saw that day.
shadows on the Great Wall of China
Never lose your dinosaur
robot love – is it real?
I guess one could make jokes about pole dancing robots.
in front of the CN tower
on a grey and weathered wall
purple entrance in the alley
loitering while wearing nothing except a few feathers
Blue, very blue
Hi Buddy on maroon
Please find your own.
havenbrook
Posted: September 18, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: 401, bridge, concrete, DOn River, face, graffiti, Havenbrook Park, mud, paw prints, raccoon, stencil, Toronto
I ventured north today, north of the 401….. to Havenbrook Park which is just far enough north to access the bridge under the 401 just east of Leslie Street. I went there because I had heard that some interesting graffiti could be found under the bridge. As you can see, someone beat me to it. It’s all gone, all cleaned up.
There is a small, and boring, amount of graffiti across the river and up the hill. If I also wanted to climb the fence, I could access a bit more graffiti. My cane was handy for managing the incline down to the river but that was the limit of my adventuring for today.
Having said that, there was this one piece of graffiti:
The graffiti had been cleaned up and so had the surroundings. It was probably the cleanest of the bridges that I have been under in Toronto. I saw rocks, dirt, water, paw prints and not much else.
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Tower Automotive Building
Posted: September 2, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: 1988, blue face, brick, eyeless, faccio sempre la brava, face, fence, girl, graffiti, heritage, industrial, Junction, Loopy Le Loop, Looter, lsd, street art, tags, the Junction, Toronto, Tower Automotive, vacant lot, wall, watering can
Standing alone in a vacant lot on Sterling Road is the Tower Automotive Building. It was built by Northern Aluminium in 1920 and at some point became the property of Tower Automotive who used the site to build car parts. In 2005 it was declared a heritage building but it was closed shortly thereafter when the company declared bankruptcy.
The ten storey Tower Automotive building. In the foreground is the land left vacant after the demolition of the sheet casting machining buildings in 2010.
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Looking up the spine of the building. North side of Tower Automotive.
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walking along the west wall
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Faccio Sempre la Brava, translates from the Italian as, I always do the good.
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Loopy Le Loop with tags
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ungated
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interior, doors
When I was researching this building, I found a site that has a collection of great photos of the interior of the building that were taken in May of this year:
jermalism.blogspot.ca/2013/05/abandonment-issues-tower-automotive.html
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walking Graffiti Alley again
Posted: August 22, 2013 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: colours, fish, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, marine life, McDougall Lane, paint, posters, Queen St. West, resurrect, Rush Lane, soul, spray paint, stickers, tags, Tom and Jerry, Toronto, uber, weeds
Behind the south side of Queen St. West, starting at Spadina and heading west. At Bathurst there is a slight detour because someone built a Loblaws grocery store and a condo in the way. But just turn south to Richmond and walk a short distance west. On your right there is a small alley; follow this lane to almost Dufferin street – if there is no construction in the way!
I have walked this route many times. Sometimes there are new things to see, or changes have occurred. Sometimes I just notice things that I missed on previous visits.
Larger than life. The woman on red has been there since the first time I walked this way a couple of years ago. The aquatic scenes on the building across the alley are a more recent addition.
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Tom and Jerry and their never ending chase scene.
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The alley changes with the seasons. Even here there is greenery.
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Sunshine and shadows in the lane.
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Above the alley. She now appears in a few places.
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Tag, baker, inserted between two windows
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I just want people to like me. A sticker in McDougall Lane, a good use of US Priority Mail labels.
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I resurrect the destructed poster with a few tags added accompanied by a girl with a broken heart.
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He evolves. First his face was added – with googly eyes and his tongue stuck out. Now he seems to be anatomically correct as well!
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Starting to fray at the edges
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Garbage bins guarding the door.
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I’m not sure what he’s drinking, but apparently he’s grain fed. He looks a bit grubby because he’s sitting on the ground next to the dust and dirt in the lane.
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A smiling Cheshire Cat and a few other creatures.
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doorways 2
Posted: August 19, 2012 in general Toronto, graffiti and street artTags: doors, doorways, entrances
More Toronto doorways!
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ready for Christmas
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Liberty Village
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purple! in the Kensington area
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green garage door, Cherry St, port lands area
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there’s a dragon at the door – in an alley off of Dundas St., just east of Spadina
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little guy at 539 Queen Street West
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graffiti – anti Rob Ford
Posted: August 18, 2012 in graffiti and street artTags: Eastern Ave., fence, graffiti, paint, Rob Ford, stencil, Toronto
anti Ford graffiti words and pictures can be found
on dumpsters ……..
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Seen on a dumpster in Renfrew Place,
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on fences…..
Stencilled onto a fence on Eastern Avenue in Leslieville. October 2012. Not the best quality photo I’m afraid. As of December 2012, the fence is gone.
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on walls….
“My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it’s their own fault at the end of the day.” Rob Ford quote from March 7, 2007.
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We can’t afFORD painted on a wall on Augusta Ave., Kensington
I am not sure if this started life as an anti-Ford piece of street art, but the placement of the sticker has made it one.
Ford gives and gets in this one. Seen on “Graffiti Alley” behind Queen St. West
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Rob Ford on Spadina near Baldwin
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Ford for ex-mayor. On Spadina near Baldwin
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and on garage doors……
Rob Ford lurking in an alley.
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as I walk Toronto 