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39 Gladstone Avenue
Cross Street = Queen St. W. and Lansdowne Ave 1988 1997 1999 2009 The neighbours lie awake with worry every night, waiting for the arsonist to accept the invitation. The invasive ‘Tree of Heaven’ weed...
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227-229 Church Street
Cross Street = Dundas St E and Church St 1983 1986 1987 1997 2002 2007 2009 Here’s Toronto’s do-it-yourself typology at work. Two old buildings, the common ‘sticks’ that Brigitte Shim refers to,...
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821 Lansdowne Avenue
Cross Street = Lansdowne and Wallace 1998 2009 ‘It’ shoe-polish signs were once as ubiquitous as Coke and Kit Kate signs are now – the shoe-repair shops they appeared on were far more plentiful than...
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976 Queen Street East
Cross Street = Queen and Carlaw 1999 2003 The end of Toronto’s unanimous monarchism, as Queen becomes the more republican ‘My’ variety. Nestlé got into the sign-sponsoring game after cigarette...
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39-41 Broadview Avenue
Cross Street: Broadview and Eastern 1983 2010 Like an infectious cold, decay can spread. Things fall apart and the centre does not hold.
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224 Adelaide Street West
Cross Street = Adelaide and Duncan 1983 2001 2010 A rare Gothic cottage survivor in Clubland. Residential homes in this loud part of town continue to exist even as 50,000 or more partiers descend on...
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52 De Grassi St.
Cross Street = De Grassi & Queen E. 1988 1997 Another street, another Gothic cottage. More care has been taken here as it’s on desirable De Grassi, the most famous street in Canada. An earlier...
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181 Lippincott Street
Cross Street = Lippincott & Ulster 1988 2010 Sometimes a house gets regingerbreadized.
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272-274 Queen Street West
Cross Street = Queen and Beverley 1983 1988 1998 2009 The ground floor may change, but remarkably, the blind in the upper window stayed in the same exact state for twenty years, until HMV carved out...
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205 Brock Avenue
Cross Street = Brock and Frankish 1999 2009 Part of a row that was once all stores, this one was the last to go.
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