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mark simpson
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I've noticed around the east side of Toronto the typical light standard being replaced with a rather ugly faux historical one -has anyone else seem them? (Broadview in Chinatown)
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FutureMayor
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yup, they are being placed all throughout the waterfront too.
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wyliepoon
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The black ones? Yeah, hate'em.
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Darkstar416
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There's also new harbour-like lighting in the "Riverside" (formerly Queen & Broadview Village) district as well. It looks pretty good to be honest, albeit not very Toronto.
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Ed007Toronto
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Queen and Sherbourne just got them. Not sure I like them.
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shawnmicallef
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I know many people want telephone poles buried....but i really love the old old wooden ones, that look like 1920s poles (and probably are).
They are, in my mind, a memorial to the Toronto that was, and are mini-museums of our industrial, provincial backwater heritage.
They are, in my mind, a memorial to the Toronto that was, and are mini-museums of our industrial, provincial backwater heritage.
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spmarshall
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Ditto. See to the left.
I like the ones they put up in the junction, but yeah, if you're talking about the ones they put up on Broadview around Danforth, I hate them. Better post a pic from Better Know a Car Line to make sure I know the ones that are talked about.
I like the ones they put up in the junction, but yeah, if you're talking about the ones they put up on Broadview around Danforth, I hate them. Better post a pic from Better Know a Car Line to make sure I know the ones that are talked about.
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badga416
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There are different ones than above on King between Parliament and Sumach that I just noticed this week. They are similar but didn't have the flat glass panel things, it was circular glass. I just checked the 504 picture fest and didn't see and example.
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jayomatic
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I was thinking the exact same thing this morning. Just outside my office at King and Spadina are a couple of the really old massive wooden ones. They look as if they are a hundred years old. Such character.
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Ed007Toronto
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Put up this morning at Queen and Sherbourne.
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nstuch
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they couldn't put in a metal pole? those look like they belong in some 19th century gold rush town
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spmarshall
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I saw a few like that on Tuesday on Queen east of Jarvis, so I figured that's what you've been talking about - the light itself similar to the street-mounted poles around St. Lawrence and Gooderham Building that have been there for decades (which I like in that form), the mount mimics the traditional Toronto streetlamp, which I do like. Lousy combination.
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building babel
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Condo exteriors cluttered with fake historic doodads and pippypoos, new homes with faux styings, fake gold rush era street lights, new street signs that imitate Victorian street signs - we're clinging on to the reassuring past for dear life as we face an uncertain future ...
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spmarshall
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Actually, except for the mount (which would have been simplier - just a metal rod supported by cables), it looks close to the electric arc lamps they mounted over Toronto intersections around the advent of electric lighting in the late 1870s-early 1900s.
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Citywriter
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Does the Beautiful City Initiative mean anything at all? I mean, Hydro is owned by the city. Who makes these decision?