JB's Warehouse & Curio Emporium

This post offers supplementary material for an article I recently wrote for Torontoist , which you should read before diving into this piece. The Globe , October 11, 1907. The fear of the "yellow peril" in action - one of the more jaw-dropping (from a modern perspective) editorials regarding the place of Chinese in Canadian society during the early 20th century.

While winding down this week's Psychogeography trek, we discovered at Dundas and Huron one of the strangest restaurant names we'd ever seen. Our jaws dropped. The kitty's obviously trying for the sympathy ploy as it begs for more food...or is hoping to win customer sympathy with its innocent eyes...or maybe it's a young fox pretending to be a kitty in the hopes of gaining more grub. The backside of the sandwich board. We were impressed by the greedy feline's generousity when it came to beer prices.

After a break of a few months, time to ease back into exploring the city's backstreets with a short trip through Chinatown. Larch runs a short distance, from Grange Ave to Dundas St W. Haven't been able to find much history about the street, other than it existed with its current name in the 1880s. Our journey starts at the south end. On the left is the complex at the the northeast corner of Larch and Grange, which reminded a fellow walker of an old hotel. On the right are the buildings opposite Larch - if anyone can translate the signs, leave a comment. Most of Larch is occupied by public housing, opened in 1996, that curls around from Grange. The west side of the street is shown on the left, east on the right (note the leftover election sign). As Richard Milgrom wrote in East/West: A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto : Both buildings are three storeys high, fitting with the scale of the neighbourhood. The address the streets by providing many ...