Towering Over Yonge St
Yonge St is the main street that runs north/south through the middle of Toronto and acts as the dividing line between west-end Toronto and east-end Toronto. All street numbers on the crossing streets start with #1 at Yonge St so you can tell from the address of a building how far it is from Yonge. The street itself starts at Lake Ontario and leaves the city to run all the way up to Lake Simcoe. The clock tower in this pic is the tower that remains from Fire Hall #3 which was built in 1872 but closed in 1929 and now it is surrounded by commercial buildings. This stretch of Yonge, north of College St, has hundreds of small stores and businesses many in quite old buildings and displaying a lot of signs!
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Nice shot Pat. Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very modern and sleek looking building towering over the street! We have a similar street here in Phoenix. It's Central Ave. It separates east and west Phoenix.
ReplyDeleteneat shot!
ReplyDeleteCertainly no lack of signs. :-)
ReplyDeleteLove strolling on Yonge! What is the new building there? A new condo?
ReplyDeleteThats a big building
ReplyDeleteNice one!
ReplyDeleteIt's a little sad to see this proud clock tower dwarfed by the glass condo building.
ReplyDeleteRaised and born in East York but spent a lot of my teenage years downtown on Yonge St. Most businesses like Sam The Record Man and the Downtown Movie Theatre are long gone.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like work in progress on the high building. Imagine working there.. Brrr
ReplyDeleteGreat street shot! On my TBV list your city is (to be visited). Sigh. So many beautiful places, so little time....
ReplyDeleteI love busy cities
ReplyDeleteThe view from that building must be amazing!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever been there? ;-)
Towering is an understatement! Tom The Backroads Traveller
ReplyDeletewhat an impressive building that is, it towers over the area.
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I think I prefer the clock tower to the modern office tower.
ReplyDeleteA nice city shot and Toronto is a city I would like to visit.
ReplyDeleteThe clock tower may be dwarfed by the new building, but it still holds its own special appeal. Interesting street perspective.
ReplyDeleteThat is some piece of architecture in the background.
ReplyDeleteOh I do love signs, historic buildings, and towers! A triple winner today
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Nice perspective, and very colorful for a city street.
ReplyDeleteSo much to see here, well worth enlarging to see all the details.. Seriously I feel like you are in Perth and just pretending to be in Toronto Pat :)
ReplyDeleteI was thinking recently that we all seem to focus in on specifics from our cities and rarely show vistas or broad streetscapes. Were you listening in?
ReplyDeleteYep, it's the same Yonge Street that travels through East Gwillimbury! It's busy up here too but probably not as busy as in Toronto. :))
ReplyDeleteYour blog post is famous among the visitors. I have been there before my toronto 1000 islands tour. I had a great experienced. Yonge Street is Toronto’s most visited street that usually famous among the tourist due to the Hosting parades and street performance etc. The visitors from all over the world visit there to attend the annual street festival. When the festival takes place at this time the street often closed.
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