Near the corner of Queens Park Crescent and Grosvenor Street is the Ontario Police Memorial.
It was dedicated in May of 2000.
The names of fallen Ontario police are carved in the stone at the base of the memorial.
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police memorial
Posted: October 9, 2014 in history, locations, memorialsTags: city, died, fallen, hats, in the line of duty, memorial, on duty, Ontario, police, policemen, remembering, statue, Toronto, uniform
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Regent theatre
Posted: October 9, 2014 in history, locationsTags: cinema, crest theatre, davisville, historical, mount pleasant, movie, mt pleasant, north toronto, regent theatre, Toronto
On Mt Pleasant Road, just north of Davisville Ave. is the Regent Theatre. It is a rather nondescript brick building with an ugly white piece of something across the front. Sometimes the names of the movies that are showing appear on the south side of that white thing (on the side you can’t see in the photo!).
The Regent theatre today.
It was built in 1920 as the Belsize Theatre. As you can see, the front of the building hasn’t changed much after almost 90 years.
Even back then the hydro poles and wires were an eyesore!
A mid life name change and it became the Crest Theatre.
Crest Theatre – The movie ‘The 7 Year Itch’ came out in 1955. I have been corrected (see comments below). Between 1954 and 1966 the Crest Theatre was not a movie house, but was devoted almost exclusively to live theatre. The “now playing” refers to the theatre production of ‘The 7 Year Itch’ which pre-dated the movie. The original stage play was by George Axelrod (1962) and was presented live at the Crest in December of 1963. Their production starred Toby Tarnow and Douglas Rain. (with thanks to David Rain for the correction and added information).
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walking the Milky Way
Posted: October 1, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: aliens, animals, brick walls, cement, cherries, city, colours, concrete, doors, faces, fence, fish, ghost, ghost dick, graffiti, Jarus, letters, metal, mural, people, persue, photos, shark, street art, Toronto, urban, weeds, woman, words
The Milky Way from Dufferin to Elm Grove.
Once upon a time this alley led to a dairy. Story has it that milk was often spilt along the way.
At the west end of the Milky Way is a mural of two horses (one shown here), a wagon wheel, and an overturned milk can.
There is also quite a bit of graffiti in the alley.
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Noble Anser faces
Posted: September 30, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: anser, eyes, faces, graffiti, line drawings, Noble St., parkdale, street art, Toronto, wall
Seen on a wall on Noble Street:
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Ireland Park
Posted: September 22, 2014 in history, locations, memorialsTags: 1847, Arrival, famine, immigrants, Ireland Park, Irish, limestone, memorial, names, people, poor, refugees, Rowan Gillespie, sculpture, statues, Toronto
By the time of Confederation in 1867, one quarter of the population of Canada were of Irish ancestry. Although the Irish had been immigrating to what is now Canada for a long time, the Irish famine years of 1845 to 1849 saw an increase in the number of immigrants. Immigration peaked in the summer of 1847; boatloads of Irish settlers arrived. Most were very poor and sick. They landed in a number of places along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, including Toronto. Thousands of those Irish immigrants died in Ontario that summer, mostly from typhus (or typhoid fever).
Ireland Park is home to a memorial in honour of those immigrants. It is on the waterfront between Lake Ontario and the old Canada Malting Co. silos.
Sections of limestone fit together in a shape that resembles a boat.
Names are engraved on the sides of the limestone sections. They are placed such that they are in the gaps between the sections. At first they are not visible. It is only when you are close to the stone that you can see the names.
675 names are carved in the stone. These are the known names of the 1000 to 1100 people who died shortly after they arrived in Toronto in the summer of 1847.
The park also has seven sculptures by Rowan Gillespie of Dublin Ireland.
The installation is called ‘Arrival’.
‘The Jubliant Man’ from behind.
‘The Apprehensive Man’
for more information: the Ireland Park Foundation website
grammar?
Posted: September 22, 2014 in general TorontoTags: confusing, dogs, don't parking, incorrect grammar, lamp post, municipal code, no parking, open, signs, silly, Toronto, we open
Considering the number of different languages spoken in this city, it is not surprising that some signs have English grammar mistakes. It is the official signs with incorrect grammar that make me shake my head.
Lack of subject makes for an incomplete sentence, not to mention some confusion. Something will be removed.
If only dogs could read.
don’t parking
we open
beside 530 Richmond West
Posted: September 18, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: birds, Bruno Smokey, chickens, ears, eyes, face, faces, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, Kevin Ledo, kid, man, mural, old man, Shalak Attack, skeleton, street art, Toronto, uber5000, woman
There is a mural in the lane way that runs beside 530 Richmond Street West (and connects with Graffiti Alley). It was completed earlier this summer. It is a collaborative effort by Shalak Attack (woman’s face), Kevin Ledo (child’s face), Uber5000 (blue cat) and Bruno Smokey ( man).
A number of people were taking pictures when I was there.
death dangles from her ears
grimaces? smiles?
ghetto cat
I guess it’s dinner time…. pizza, tacos and beets!
eyes to the right
chicken fingers
alley creatures
Posted: September 18, 2014 in graffiti and street artTags: alley, bandana, boat, devil, dmc, dog, fork, garage door, graffiti, horns, lane, red, red roses, skull, street art, sunglasses, Toronto
Creatures on walls and garage doors, all seen yesterday between Dundas & Palmerston and College & Bathurst.
AIDS walk
Posted: September 14, 2014 in eventsTags: #aidswalkto, AIDS, awareness, carnations, downtown, HIV, in memory, MCGP, Miss Teen Canada, people, posters, red, red ribbons, remembering, SIDA, sign, walk, walkathon, walkers, Yonge St.
AIDS Walk, 13 September
Beginning at Yonge Dundas Square…..
Getting dressed and ready to walk.
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Making posters to carry in the walk.
….. north up Yonge Street…..
Test. Treat. Defeat.
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The walk made its way to the AIDS Memorial in Barbara Hall Park on Monteith Street (near Church and Wellesley).
Here, each walker was given a red carnation to leave at the memorial.
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Winding their way past the names of those from Toronto who lost their lives to AIDS.
The memorial was opened late in 1992 and dedicated during Pride Week in 1993.
There are about 2700 names now engraved on the plaques. New names are added once a year.
Enthusiastic volunteers cheer on the walkers.
A cheerful Team Miss Canada Globe stopped for me for a few moments.
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Money raised in the walk goes to support act (AIDS Committee Toronto).
The lead group in the walk.
Link to the official Toronto AIDS walk website
women on David French Lane
Posted: September 10, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, arm, faces, garages, graffiti, heads, lane, mask, paper, red lips, street art, Toronto, women
David French lane runs between Borden St. and Brunswick Ave., south of Bloor. I know that I have posted some of the graffiti on the garages in the lane before. Most of those garages have since been covered with ugly and boring tags. There isn’t as much of interest there these days…. but I did see the following today.
Masked and unmasked
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Waiting in the doorway. Note the trashy tags around her.
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smoochies!
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Ooops, that’s not a woman!
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