Image: LAC.
Image: LAC.
Last year, when I wrote a brief piece about the Kenniston, I neglected to include a photograph of the dining hall that was a feature.
Dining At the Kenniston
Month: July 2017
Elgin Views, 1980s
Party Palace, now McDonald’s. Early 1980s. It’s a bit to make out, but you can see Goldstein’s reflected in the glass. Image: Ronald Temchuk.
Boushey’s in the early 1980s. Image: Ronald Temchuk.
Now home to the Ministry of Coffee, Wine Rack, and Fox & Feather. Early 1980s. Image: Ronald Temchuk.
Now the site of the Zesty’s, corner of Elgin and Maclaren. Early 1980s. Image: Ronald Temchuk.
Recently, on the Lost Ottawa Facebook group, an individual named Ronald Temchuk shared some photographs of Elgin street from the early 1980s. It’s not just because I’m a very happy Elgin resident that these stood out to me: I’ve written stories in the past about a few of these places (with many more in the hopper).
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
95 Lawton in 2011. Image: Google Maps, 2011.
It was once named The Normandy. Image: Google Maps, 2014.
Image: Google Maps, 2014.
This one is probably better off in the ‘Blog’ section, as so much of the story is in the notes. Nevertheless, because the front hasn’t seen much since February, I’ve put it here.
A Toasty March Afternoon
Every Spring we get one: an abnormally warm day that brings us all out. When I recently came across this 1986 photo in the Toronto Public Library’s digital archive, I couldn’t help by want to look up the sort of slow-day lifestyle reporting that it accompanied.
S.S. Kresge Abandons Coxwell
After having recently been stuck on a short turn of the 506, I couldn’t help but notice the neat brickwork at the top of the Dollar Tree store on Coxwell. After tripping over the photograph above for an unrelated search, I decided to dig a little.