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Coxwell and Soller

Posted: June 12, 2026 in doors, graffiti and street art, intersections, locations
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A walk down Coxwell Avenue with a few diversions along the way…..

below: Part of larger mural painted by Al Runt that covers most of the exterior of a building on Gerrard near Coxwell.

part of a mural by Al Runt, fantasy characters with big mouths and little arms in colourful colours.

The “Soller” part of the title of this post is a direct reference to artist Rowell Soller. As it turns out he was touching up one of his murals on Coxwell when I walked past.

artist Rowell Soller works on a mural near Coxwell and Gerrard, a woman's face in red and orange tones

mural by Rowell Soller, woman

below: This large painting is on the same building as the mural in the photo above.  It is a collaboration between Soller and Flips.  If you see a painting in Toronto that has those curls and swirls, it was probably painted by Flips.

large Rowell Soller mural on a building that is on the southwest corner of Coxwell and Gerrard

below: “The choice is yours”

pink and black curves, plus text in white that says the choice is yours

Harrys Burgers restaurant and a Home Hardware store on the northeast corner of Coxwell and Gerrard

old bank building, now for sale, on Coxwell Avenue

below: Coxwell and Gerrard (south part), looking southeast.    A quirk in the map, a jog in the street.  For reasons no longer clear (probably something to do with the history of the area), Gerrard is divided by Coxwell into a southern and a northern section.   This is the southern part where it is Gerrard to the west of Coxwell but Eastwood Avenue to the east.

Coxwell and Gerrard

side of building beside vacant lot that used to be Dean Motors International

below:  The sign says Fairford Avenue, which is partially correct as it is Fairford to the west of Coxwell, but Gerrard Street to the east.  Confused yet?   The 506 Carleton streetcar runs on Gerrard as far east as Main Street and west all the way to High Park… but it has to make two turns at Coxwell to stay on Gerrard.

new apartment building being built on northeast corner of Coxwell and Fairford, TTC streetcar in picture, Carleton Car.

below: Signs of summer!

looking down a path in a ravine to the street where an ice cream truck is parked

below: Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School is just east of Coxwell.  It was built in 1923.

Bowmore Road junior and senior public school, an old brick building

below: Does anybody still refer to Toronto as ‘The 6ix’?  It was popular ten years ago when Drake used it in a song but I haven’t heard it much recently.

sign in store window that says the 6ix

in the window of a pottery store, some terra cotta pots, also a sign that says it's the other pot shop

below: Another Coxwell mural, another collaboration between Rowell Soller and Flips (from 2022).

mural by flips and rowell soller on the side of Pizza Nova on Coxwell Ave

below: … and yet another, this time with yellow curls

part of a mural by flips and rowell soller, 2 white faces, with a green face in the middle, yellow curvy curls

a car is parked in front of part of a mural by flips and rowell soller, 2 white faces, with a green face in the middle, yellow curvy curls

below: More Soller painting, this time on Queen East close to Coxwell, a woman in blue.

mural by Rowell Soller and Flips on brick wall outside of Coffee House on queen Street East

a man in shorts and sandals walks past a small table and two olive green chairs on the sidewalk

old, now empty, Canadian Dry Cleaners building on Queen Street East

looking through a bicycle store window with man walking on sidewalk, a bus, and other street scene, bikes in the store and hanging from the ceiling

below:  Emdaabiimok Avenue is now the name of the lower part of Coxwell, south of Queen. In Anishinaabemowin, Emdaabiimok translates to “where the road goes to the water”

Emdaabiimok Ave city street sign, at Queen

people waiting for a bus at a bus shelter on a sunny summer day

very large, tall, tree on a residential street

a woman wearing a head scarf is opening front gate in front of a small orange house with a white door

driveway between houses, orange cones around corner of one of the houses, garage in the back

three single famiily houses on coxwell avenue

single family residences on Coxwell Avenue

below: There are a lot of tiny houses on Coxwell!

single family residences on Coxwell Avenue

three small houses squished together on coxwell avenue

below: There is also this tall skinny house that has a footprint of only 16′ x 16′   (just under 5m x 5m).  It has one bedroom and is built on stilts.  It is accessed from the sidewalk by a bridge.   Originally it was painted in blue, red, green, and yellow squares and rectangles and really did look like it was made of Lego blocks.   If you hear of someone referring to it as the Lego House, that’s why.  This pale blue and dark grey mix looks much better!

single family residences on Coxwell Avenue

below: Like most other places in the city, there are always changes to be seen whether it is a complete reno of a house or the addition of a rooftop terrace.

square three storey residence, beside older single family home that has new rootop terrace

single family residences on Coxwell Avenue

below: If you walk (or drive) slightly farther north on Coxwell, you might see this car.  Its collection of colourful and sparkly decorations has slowly grown over the years to the point where there isn’t much room left!

reddish colour car covered with sparkly bits as decoration

woman standing on front porch with a hose, watering garden of flowers

orange and red blotchy door, red brick wall,

blue and white street sign, coxwell avenue, hanging by a traffic light, red light,

open sign in window, opening times sign with red letters, Boxes of old milwaukee beer and creemore beer signs inside the store

back to Little India

Posted: February 23, 2022 in doors, graffiti and street art, locations, stores, windows and walls
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mannequin in a window wearing a shiny yellow sai and holding a heart shaped evening purse with shiny beads on it

 The alley and parking lot behind the south side of Gerrard Street between Rhodes Avenue and Craven Road has a lot of street art.  Most of it was described back in November 2015 in a post titled:
Udlaakut, good morning (Inuit for good morning).

below: Mural by Timmy Drift aka Tim Schjins

mural of many faces with big mouths and white teeth

murals on the back of businesses on Gerrard street, beside a snowy parking lot,

below: A newer painting is this Alley Cats mural which is over 14′ high and is the work of Swizzle Studios (aka Rob Elliott and Andrew Horne)

large mural in a Little India alley, three white cats looking up at a yellow bird on a ledge

below: Jim Bravo and Ema Ciobanico (2020) painted murals with Little India Bazaar themes over two buildings – one on the NE corner of Gerrard and Ashdale and the other across Gerrard on the SE corner.

at the intersection of Gerrard and Ashdale, two buildings across the street from each other, both with Little India murals by Jim Bravo

below: On the northeast corner of Gerrard and Ashdale is the west wall of Kohinoor Foods – people with balloons, flags, and lotus flowers.

mural by Jim Bravo on the wall of Kohinoor Foods on Gerrard East

mural by Jim Bravo on Ashdale in Little India with the word Bazaar (as in Little India Bazaar), flowers and people holding balloons

mural by Jim Bravo on Ashdale in Little India with the word Bazaar (as in Little India Bazaar), flowers and people holding balloons

below: Visual noise and friends, slaps in an alley.

stickers and pasteups on a white wall. Urban ninja squadron t bonez on one knee with a large missle launcher on one shoulder

below: I have blogged about this mural before – Four-D by Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson at Gerrard and Woodfield, 2013.

below: An elephant above the vape shop

mural of an elephant on the upper level of a store

below: Mr. Monopoly tries to run away with the loot (by kransky)

street traffic, or Bell, box with a running Mr. Monopoly

below: Another mural!  This one was painted by Catherine Cachia

little india bia sponsored mural on the side of a building

below: Two of a series of different coloured ‘banners’ that have cut out images in them.

green and pink banners in Little India

below: Buddha seems to be happy to hang around here.

buddah statue outside a store window

metal chairs and tables stacked against storefronts on sidewalk in Little India

painted planters on the sidewalk on Gerrard St., in the winter with some snow

below: “We’re all in this together”  Still Covid days.

door at 1299, with signs in the window, We're all in this together

signs in the window of a door of a store in Little India

looking through the clear side of a bus shelter at Coxwell Ave., looking west along Gerrard St.

below: Northeast corner of Coxwell and Gerrard/Eastwood

pink two storey building on the northeast corner of Coxwell and Eastwood, with construction in front, Coffee Time on the lower level is closed and windows papered over

below: Halal Meat Shop at Glenside

Halal Meat store on Gerrard

below: Lazy Daisy’s Cafe has been temporarily closed since Christmas while they “transform”.

doorway to Lazy Daisy coffee shop, closed with sign on door

below: Mural at the Black Pony (formerly the Flying Pony)

exterior of Flying Pony Cafe, with snow covered patio furniture and mural that says You're Here

gold and cololurful little statues in a store window

red saris and male clothing with gold and beads decorating it

looking in the front window of a bead store

in a window, a green, red and white flag with beaded shapes hanging in front

old sign at 1301 Gerrard East, sidewalk in winter,

yellow sign on gate of Buddhist temple that says sorry we're closed until further notice

below: Looking west along Gerrard at Greenwood.

people sitting in bus shelter, winter, at corner of Gerrard East and Greenwood, looking west along Gerrard, Daisy Mary and Pizza Pizza as well