JB's Warehouse & Curio Emporium

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

open file posts

Pieces I've written for OpenFile Toronto:

Before St. Clair, There Was the Yonge Subway "Disaster" (Mar 22/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The Gardiner Expressway's Eastern Section (Mar 18/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The Temple Building (Mar 11/12)

What's Toronto's History of Non-Majority Mayors? (Mar 6/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The Shell Oil/Bulova Tower (Mar 4/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The (Mutual Street) Arena (Feb 26/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Ed's Warehouse (Feb 19/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The Telegram Building (Feb 12/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Spadina's Moving Walkways (Feb 5/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Paradise Cinema (Jan 29/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Palace Pier (Jan 13/12)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The Odeon Hyland (Dec 30/11)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Maple Leaf Stadium (Dec 16/11)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Albert Britnell Book Shop (Dec 5/11)

Past Pieces of Toronto: Sam the Record Man (Nov 21/11)

Past Pieces of Toronto: The Uptown Theatre (Nov 4/11)

A Decade Later, The Dominon Coal Silos Memorialized (Oct 11/11)
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