Doors Open 2009 - May 23 & 24

[luxome]

more pics please!!

 

[GraphicMatt]

Here's some from Greenwood Yard on Saturday:

T1 cars on stilts:

Waiting to be painted. I think they should go with a shiny red on this one:

Forklifts and railcars and things. (I also have pics of all the technical signs talking about snow removal and the repair locomotion and stuff, if any transit nerds are interested.)

In the sander:

The TTC should sell these:

CLRVs never go this fast!

Incredible detail:

 

[Urban Shocker]

Saw the small but exceptional George Ohr travelling exhibition at the Gardiner Museum - I think we have Katrina to thank for it coming here; they're rebuilding Gehry's flattened Ohr-O'Keefe museum in Biloxi.

Then on to the Carlu. Sat in the back row of the auditorium, and heard conversations of people who were standing in front of the stage quite clearly - with such acoustics I'd love to hear a recital there.

That's my Doors Open for this year.

 

[Hipster Duck]

I love the overcrowding on this one.

It would be really funny if the HO-scale TTC suffered from the same dispatch problems as the real TTC, leading to mini bunchups and tiny short turns...

 

[Benc7]

I love the Carlu too (a rhyme!), but I've not heard any performances in it either. I confined my Doors Open activities to the Wychwood Barns, partly because I'm intrigued by the experiment and partly because I never get to that area of the city. St.Clair West, all ripped up for the transit project, will be all the better for it once it's completed. The Barns themselves were worth the trip; what an interesting and courageous attempt at redefining both an old building and the uses for it. From the number of kiddies playing in the sand and the number of dogs playing in their separate enclosure, the place is a hit with the locals. I spoke to one artist whose work I've long admired, and she said that the formation of community with the artists themselves will take time (as, of course, all natural things do). Some of the artists who require quiet and solitude for their work are finding it difficult to negotiate their needs with all the activity the area brings to it. Others are taking to it like ducks to water. Much of the site was closed for a film shoot, but judging from what I saw, this place is a winner.

 

[ShonTron]

My Doors Open Pics from Saturday (Don Jail, Greenwood, Wychwood) are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7119320@N05/sets/72157618667292889/

 

[luxome]

My Doors Open Pics from Saturday (Don Jail, Greenwood, Wychwood) are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7119320@N05/sets/72157618667292889/

aww..so little pics for Don Jail hehe...thanks for the pics.

just curious, what's the difference between a regular tour and a ghost tour? in ghost tour do you get to go to places where a regular tour can't go?

 

[Mustapha]

My Doors Open Pics from Saturday (Don Jail, Greenwood, Wychwood) are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7119320@N05/sets/72157618667292889/

Thanks. I wonder if the executed were buried on the prison grounds? Many prisons have a 'tradition' of doing this.

 

[ShonTron]

Yes, unclaimed bodies were buried on the grounds. They found the remains of several individuals when digging up part of the parking lot at the back.

 

[Observer Walt]

I think that was done in "earlier" years, but not more recently. The last two executions in Canada took place at the Don Jail in 1962. The two executed men, Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas, were buried at Prospect Cemetery near St. Clair and Dufferin.

I'm sorry I didn't make it to the Don Jail, it would have been fascinating, perhaps morbidly so. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[Torontovibe]

Inside The Notorious Old Don Jail

Here is the little film I made during the Doors Open tour of the old, Don Jail. Check it out.



http://torontovibe.ning.com/video/inside-the-notorious-don-jail

 

[DavidJamesTO]

Those CLRV models are fantastic! The TTC should sell them, but knowing the TTC they'd sell them the way the manufacturer does--unassembled, undecorated, and having to be painted and decorated at home.

I'm surprised the Halton County Radial Railway Museum doesn't sell them. They'd make a fortune!