Downtown Yonge gems.

[miketoronto]

Yesterday I went Christmas shopping with my friend. We decided to walk down Yonge Street a little on the way to the Eaton Centre. Anyway we went into a couple cool stores on downtown Yonge.

One of them was Toronto's oldest china shop. In business so far for 103 years on downtown Yonge Street. It is a cool old store with wood floors that look like they have not been sanded in 100 years, as well as cool old style display cases.

We also went into a poster shop, that carried every poster you could think about. The only thing with that store, was that it looked like they just threw posters in there with no style at all. The store needed a major fix up. But other then that it was fun.

Anyway ,does anyone else know of some cool stores on Downtown Yonge.

But man that china store was cool. To think we still have stores that were around over one hundred years ago. That is a rare thing even in the most vibrant downtowns.

My old problems with downtown Yonge as always. Is that there are not enough Mens clothing stores, that are not chains.

 

[ganjavih]

Yonge St may not be the most visually stunning main streets in the world but it certainly has one of the most interesting and eclectic collection of businesses. It really is a great commercial strip.

 

[luggee]

Yonge has come a long way from when I was a kid in the 70's. It used to scare the crap out of me with all the headshops and porno theatres but now, particularly on the few blocks just south of Bloor and around the newly rejunvenated Dundas area, it's quite walkable and even, dare I say it, a pleasant alternative to Bloor.

I go walking there fairly often with my wife and we eat at one of the many Thai places, or the Living Well and just the other day we stopped in Dundas Sq. to see all the ice sculptures.

I do like that there are still traces of the "old and wicked" Yonge tho', like just north of Dundas with the peeler bars and Flash Jacks. I wouldn't want it to be too sterilized, since that would be too much like the Disneyfication of Times Sq...

And what with the city's initiative to help businesses restore their facades (they'll match a building owner dollar for dollar), you get great places like the Superior Restaurant that show how with just a little bit of woodwork repair and a fresh coat of paint how beautiful those old turn of the century buildings can look.