I wanted to give you an idea of the crowded sidewalks along King St during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). This pic was taken in front of the Royal Alexandra Theatre just down the block from 2 theatres showing films during TIFF. If you weren't going with the flow it was almost impossible to move along at times. I was there later at 10:30 pm when a nearby Blue Jays baseball game had just finished and movies were finishing and it was chaos along the sidewalks with so many people!
Kinky Boots, a Broadway musical, has been here since July and has just been extended until December.
Taking part in Signs, Signs. Click HERE to see more signs from around the world.
I stood for a while trying to get an unobscured pic of this sign on King St for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) but had no luck since it seems to be the place where people meet up with their friends and there was also a steady flow of people on the sidewalk. This was the 40th year for the festival which ran for 11 days in mid September, showing around 400 films to over 450,000 moviegoers. The city is alive with movies and actors for that time period and many people take their holidays to see as many movies as possible. A friend saw 34 movies this year at the festival! Check out the guy at the right of the pic - I hope he made some money.
I have shown you some of these fun LovBots before (click the Lovbot label below) and I recently spotted this one on a site that I think is to become another condo. I had to fit my lens through a chain-link fence to get the shot. This looks like a very happy LovBot don't you think?
Taking part in Monday Murals. Click HERE to see more murals from around the world.
St Thomas's Anglican Church is located right in the midst of the U of Toronto campus but isn't part of the university. It is a church of Anglo-Catholic tradition and was established in 1874 although this building was constructed in 1893. This Arts & Crafts church was designed by architect Eden Smith who designed many of the homes in Wychwood Park as well as 3 Carnegie libraries in the city, and several churches. Love that nice red door!
Taking part in Inspired Sunday. Click HERE to see more religious buildings from around the world.
A tree by one of the homes in Wychwood Park had to be taken down but the homeowners saved the trunk and had someone do a bit of carving for them. I particularly like the owl peeking out from its hollow!
Have you noticed how much detail disappears from pics in blogger lately?
There are a lot stores in the Junction neighbourhood selling 20th century furniture and most of them are large spaces like this one. Chairs seem to be a popular thing and this store in particular had a lot of crates of different kinds. It's always fun to rummage in this type of place!
This Classical Revival building is one of the neighbours of yesterday's great building in the Junction neighbourhood. It was designed for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada and built in 1909 by architects Darling & Pearson who designed many banks and University of Toronto buildings from that era. I'm not sure when it became The Treasury or what exactly that is but it seems to be some kind of apartment building.
I consider that to be a fence running along the top so I am taking part in Good Fences. Click HERE to see more fences from around the world.
