C'est What?

This sign has a spelling error in it, click on the image and find it.

Roncesvalles

The other day, I wrote about the Edgewater Hotel sign being removed by the City.

Today, I was able to find pictures on BlogTO of this intersection.

Here you see the corner building known as the B & G Coffee Shop and Milk Bar.
The hotel was just being built when this picture was taken in 1949.



Flash forward to the 70's and we find that the B & G sign and the big horizontal stripes have disappeared.

The hotel seems to be thriving and the coffee shop has become a travel bureau for Gray Coach.




It's interesting to note that in 1985 the "Mad Bomber" placed dynamite in the washroom of the Gray Coach Terminal here as well as at the Eglinton Station on TTC property.

Both bombs exploded with no injuries, and the man was caught but later escaped, and never re-captured.


Today McDonald's sits at this corner, the hotel's name has changed to Days Inn and taggers have put a lot of graffitti on the old billboard.

The Edgewater Hotel

Last summer I was strolling along Roncesvalles, near Queen West - when I looked up to see that the neon sign still sits on this building.There's a lot of history here, so I snapped a picture of the sign attached to the Days Inn.


But now, according to the Torontoist the Edgewater sign has come down.






City officials ordered that the Parkdale landmark be removed on November 3, after nearly three years of working to convince the owner of the building to make necessary repairs. According to a Municipal Licensing and Standards manager, the sign had finally become so derelict that city inspectors deemed it unsafe.

Garrison Creek

The Discovery Walk sign pictured here says:

"You are standing on what was once the edge of an extensive ravine system containing one of the largest creeks running through central Toronto"

This blog, then, is about Garrison Creek...so named because it flows all the way south from here to the lake and passes by the garrisons that are located at Fort York.

Once famous for its Salmon fishing, the City buried the creek just south of Bloor Street, in an underground sewer system.

You can follow the Discovery Walk way finders across Bloor Street to Bickford Park and over to Harbord Street, where you will find the remnants of the bridge that was built for access across Garrison Creek.

This is a copy of a photo from the Toronto Archives, that shows the original bridge being built in 1910.

 

After crossing Harbord Street and traversing Harbord Park, you will find yourself behind the Montrose Public School.

Here you can see how the ravine has shaped the landscape of the streets.

Gum Drop!

This is a disposal for gum thats attached to a building on King Street East near Jarvis.

Look closely, and you will see that someone has put their gum at the end of the arrow, instead of in the container.