Big bruiser clouds in the west end just now. Looking NE from the Wallace St bridge.

The Victoria Garden Apartments at 2400 Queen St E, built 1931.

An old favourite for #tiletuesday. - 497 Bloor St W

Heartbreak on repeat in a closed bar at dawn.

Let’s win the World Series

One of the wilder views I’ve come across lately. - The former Bank of British North America snagged in maximum security fencing at Dufferin and King W.

Bit of magic this morning on King West, at Bay.

For the love of a good window. - The former Toronto Stock Exchange, 234 Bay St, built 1937.

Round the back, at Old City Hall.

One of the lovely McIntyre & Taylor covers that misspells Toronto as Tornoto. Queen St W, near Manning

The upper storey has its charms too.

Stack at St Joseph’s, Sunnyside Ave.

Fun with reflections on a streetcar ride at dawn.

Lovely leaded glass transom on this storefront at 717 Queen St W.

Hands down, the best entrance of the St Joseph’s Health Centre complex.

Fantastic moon last night. Couldn’t hope to do it justice, so I did my best with the spiderweb of streetcar wires instead. - Queensway, near the Roncesvalles, Queen W, King W union.

Great tiles, marvellous stained glass. - Roncesvalles Ave, near Fermanagh.

As far as standpipe and sprinkler connections go, this one’s a beauty. - Commerce Court North, built 1931

Terrific gate at 139 Church - the long, longtime home of McTamney’s pawnshop.

Enjoying this balmy, autumnal morning. Looking SE to Yonge and Temperance, from the Cloud Gardens at Richmond.

It's a bit tough to make out but this patch of concrete is marked 1946. Not super old, but none too common in the city. - Southwood Drive, at Glen Stewart Crescent.

Despite the best efforts of the modern cladding and windows, traces of this building’s early charms shine through. - 1071 Gerrard St E.

Commerce Court North, built 1931, reflected in the glossy glass of the Deloitte building on Adelaide, at Yonge.

So pleased and honoured that my Much Ado on the Danforth - about the rogue Danforth Business Men’s Association protests - has been nominated for Heritage Toronto’s Public History award. www.heritagetoronto.org/programs/her...

Not a particularly old ghost sign, but still fun to see this Ontario Honda signage from 1976 revealed. -1255 Queen St E

Oh boy, the Festival of Bizarre Toronto History is coming up! Very excited to be part of this panel discussing oddball contests. Hope you’ll join us!

As a follow-up to my tale of the 1934 protest by the Danforth Business Men’s Association, I’ve written about a Kingston Rd fruit market and its rather surprising history: wp.me/p5YH3v-3Nm

‘Twas a drizzly, misty crossing on the Wallace St bridge last night.

I've been enjoying the recent appearance of crows in the east end. Their dramatic, slightly ominous cawing has been a fun and welcome addition to the usual street noise.

Granada Towers - 2440 Queen St E.

Gone for ages, it’s remarkable how the ghost of Simpsons lingers yet. Third photo, from 1981, courtesy City of Toronto Archives.

73 Richmond St W - The Graphic Arts Building, built in 1913, was designed by Francis S. Baker as the home of Saturday Night Magazine.

Parkside Barbershop - 1679 Bloor St, at Indian Road.

2333 Dundas St W, near Bloor. The warm glow of Bloor Dundas Square on a dark, damp November evening.

1826 Queen St E A charming, cheery, classic storefront, already decked out for the holidays.

426 Queen St E - built in 1913 for the Quaker Candy Company. Always a sucker for a circular window, I’m especially sweet on this one.

1. One spring day 79 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany & began floating toward the ground. This is the story of Toppy Topham — and how he died. (It's an annual Remembrance Day thread I used to post on the other site that feels apt for my first thread here.)

NEW! For TVO (@tvotoday.bsky.social), for Remembrance Day I look at the story of "Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl," who served as a prototype for the iconic "Rosie the Riveter" image. #history #remembranceday www.tvo.org/article/befo...

In honour of Remembrance Day, here’s my look at how Toronto woke to, and celebrated, news of the armistice: wp.me/p5YH3v-1L5

I've started to create a Toronto history starter pack — let me know who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/2Cd88Tu

Moody skies round the ol’ Canadian General Electric water tower this afternoon.

Warmth and light, somewhere in the dark.

My little tale of how a band of Danforth business men went rogue, 90 years ago this week.

Built in 1908 for the Canadian Birkbeck Investment Co, 8-10 Adelaide St E. is now home to the Ontario Heritage Centre. One of many glorious structures the great George Wallace Gouinlock gave this city.

How I love the Commerce Court - North elevators in the PATH. They’re mighty spare, but delightful to me.

962 Bloor St W This lovely bit of terrazzo is a remnant of the former Kenwood Theatre, which opened here in 1930.

Does my heart good to know that there are still little neighbourhood markets that look like this. - Danforth and Westlake.

The sign itself dates to ~1939 when Melba’s neighbour to the west came down, freeing up the wall for additional advertising. Photo of Melba Billiards at Queen and Leslie, ca. 1926, from City of Toronto Archives.

Queen E & Leslie With the demolition of the former Lee Food factory now underway, a long-hidden ghost sign has been revealed. This partial sign advertises the Melba Billiards which occupied 1233 Queen E from 1926 to 1947.

765B Yonge St - Private entrance of the Albert Britnell Book Shop building, built 1928. I've spotted the odd coal chute on older buildings, but this is the first I've seen smack dab in the centre of an entry.