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Are you forgetting there's going to be a Ripley's just around the corner?

It's too bad they won't be putting signs up higher -- to block that hideous cinderblock top-storey addition.

However, I am impressed that Sigmund Freud was able to make it (seated a little right of centre).

The building is crying. It saw a reflection of itself in Casa and realized how ugly it is.

Great pictures. You could do a whole thread on Toronto's fine dining scene in the Sixties and Seventies. It's interesting that "good" restaurants generally had a well-upholstered, clubby gentleman's feel about them well into the Eighties, despite modernism having taken over architecture decades...

I also mourn the loss of those buildings, but Salmon's photos are yet another illustration of just how shabby and dreary Toronto was looking by the late 1950s. I can almost (but not really) understand the yearning to clear it all away.

I had to Google "Adele Blood". There's an interesting Wikipedia entry for this nearly forgotten actress and her sad life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Blood

And that would be the Albert Kemp mansion on the left, the current site of Rosedale Heights School for the Arts.

Thomson is an idiot. If she's going to say something like that to the media, she better have the goods. She's heard the rumours, we've all heard the rumours, but you need proof. That said, I have no doubt that Mayor Ford will decline to sue for defamation.

You're right in the short term. The anti-commerce and and anti-development types have made this their cause celebre and they will prevail, especially when the casino's main defenders at this moment are the mouth-breathing Fords. But in ten years, after we've seen pie-in-sky redevelopment plans...

Well, I'm happy.

Oh yeah, no doubt about it. Another EIFS outrage is on its way. Just admit it.

Nice contextual building for that area. Doesn't need to be a masterpiece. That house at No. 403 may be the last surviving reminder of Bloor's past as a single-residence proto-suburban street.

"Self-censorship" is a red herring here. We are merely calling her out on nonsensical statements that don't jibe with the urban, transit-centric principles she's previously endorsed.

"There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader." Your use of the word "hedge" (seemingly approvingly!) says it all. You've just provided a perfect illustration of why people are cynical about politicians. Here is a "downtown" councillor who is not sure whether she favors the...

Try visiting the Howard Johnson's on Avenue.

Oh god.

Well, Scientology's renos are known to be half-assed. Look at Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

I usually like these old piles, but that one is quite ugly.

Right. This building is special because it came a good ten years before modernism completely took over in this city and became the default style. By the sixties and seventies, they were stamping out boxes by the dozen and they came to have a generic look. This one has a warmer, almost "craftsy"...