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Book City

Book store closing sign of local decline

March 6, 2012March 22, 2019 Town Crier staff Bloor West Village, Book City, bookstore, Greg Hamara, small business

The news came suddenly, but it wasn’t entirely shocking. The venerable Book City store in Bloor West Village is closing

THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

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Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan

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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan

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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan

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The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan

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The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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