[PHOTO] Annette vs Dundas vs Dupont

[PHOTO] Looking north, Keele at Annette

[PHOTO] “People’s Pint Brewing Company”

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[PHOTO] Looking south across St. Clair towards the Junction

[PHOTO] Model railroad, Mint Dentistry, 3084 Dundas Street West

The outpost of Mint Dentistry on 3084 Dundas Street West in The Junction had–has still, I hope–a lovely model railroad on display in its front window.

[PHOTO] Five photos of vintage calculators and Commodores, Z&Z Accounting (#thejunction)

I was passing by with Jim through the Junction on Dundas West one recent night when we came across the storefront location of Z & Z Accounting and Income Tax Services, at 3102 Dundas Street West. There, they had on display vintage machines of the sort that earlier generations of accountants would have used, including mechanical calculators and some vintage Commodore computers. (The C64 was not there, but the PET and VIC-20 were.)

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, Junction, Shevchenko, 1926, suicide

• Drew Rowsome reviews the offerings at the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, here.
• blogTO notes the displeasure of the Junction at the removal of a wooden train platform, become a community hub, for condo construction.
• Bloor West Village, blogTO notes, hosts a museum–newly reopened in a new location–devoted to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.
• Jamie Bradburn looks at vintage Toronto ads, these from the parties contending 1926 federal election.
• In this long-form CBC feature, Ioanna Roumeliotis writes about the new things the TTC is doing to try to prevent suicides on the subway tracks.

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: terra cotta, racism, Grand Gerrard, CityPlace, Vision Zero, coffee

• I should have gone to see that house in the Junction with the terra cotta tiles before it was no longer. blogTO reports.
• White nationalists are putting up posters around the city. blogTO reports.
• The Grand Gerrard Theatre is set to re-open, continuing a century-long tradition. blogTO reports.
• Urban Toronto notes how construction continues for Canoe Landing Centre, at CityPlace down on the waterfront.
• Can the Vision Zero plan help protect public spaces in Toronto from terrorist attacks? CBC Toronto considers.
• Why, exactly, did a Starbucks in Cabbagetown close down? blogTO reports on the local confusion.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Neon Museum, renovictions, Y&E, ROM, Room With A View

• Jamie Bradburn was decidedly unimpressed by the Neon Museum at Junction House.
• Renovictions are a real concern for many renters in Toronto, already living on the edges of their budgets. CBC reports.
• Urban Toronto notes an interesting consolidation of two development plans into one at Yonge and Eglinton, here.
• blogTO notes how the Royal Ontario Museum is now going to offer free admission every third Monday of the month.
• Natalia Manzocco writes at NOW Toronto about how the Room With A View pop-up restaurant underneath the Gardiner Expressway ended up triggering city concerns over housing.

[PHOTO] Looking west, Dundas West at Keele