Bell’s “Nickel in the Slot” Phone Unwelcome at The Warrington
Built in 1909, the Warrington Apartments is one of the city’s older apartments and one of the oldest at the southern end of Elgin street.
Category: Elgin Street
A Ticket at Frank and Elgin (1960)
Another photograph that caught my eye from the “Meter Maids” collection: this time, one of the new recruits writing a ticket at the corner of Elgin ...
Elgin Street Loblaws, 1940
292 Elgin, the building that currently hosts Hooley’s and Yuk Yuk’s, has always caught my eye. Between the buff brick and the smart detail above the...
White House Apartments, Redux
If you will remember, last year I wrote about some of the “excitement” that took place in the apartment building that I live in. Although I provided...
Sugarman & Diamond commission a Toast to Miss Harmon
About a year ago, when I wrote about the tragic experience of Ottawa’s Miss Harmon, I intended to continue and write about the subsequent development of t...