Here are pictures of five of them. The quality of some of them may be low, but that's because they were taken last year using one disposable camera or another.
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[PHOTO] Stores made houses
Since I've moved to Toronto, I've noticed that a non-trivial number of buildings that were once stores--plate-glass windows, doors opening at unusual corners, locations on intersections--are now houses. While I don't know the exact reasons for this, it doesn't seem unreasonable to suppose that as big-box and other large-format stores grew in the second half of the 20th century, these stores became unprofitable and were eventually sold Thus, you've got all manner of houses with heavy curtains on the front and art or flowers in the front display spaces, and so on.
Here are pictures of five of them. The quality of some of them may be low, but that's because they were taken last year using one disposable camera or another.
Here are pictures of five of them. The quality of some of them may be low, but that's because they were taken last year using one disposable camera or another.
June 27 2009, 21:50:22 UTC 2 years ago
My landlord had bought the flat previously and when the shop area below went on the market and nobody wanted it, he arranged to bid for it at the auction which he won. He then spent a chunk of cash restoring the shop front with a bay window and front door to match the rest of the mostly-residential street. He kept the shop area as a large (700sqft) open-plan living room with semi-permanent dividers to break up the space.
June 28 2009, 02:54:19 UTC 2 years ago
June 28 2009, 15:40:13 UTC 2 years ago