I showed you the Kingsway Theatre in a mural on Monday and thought I should give you a pic of the real thing. It still operates a theatre and even though the sign could use a bit of a touch up the interior is said to be in good condition. Once again I have to make a point of heading out that way to get a night shot and see how many of those lights are working. I love the Art Deco details at the top.
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This is the next part of the mural I started to show you last week, titled "Our Community at Sunset". This section shows the venerable Kingsway movie theatre on Bloor St as it might have looked in days gone by. It was opened in 1939 and was renovated in 2009 and still shows movies! I will show you a pic of it as it looks today on Wednesday.
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This is the last bit of the Royal York Rd mural on the east side. Next week I will show you the mural on the west side. I really like this section which wraps around the corner of the bridge - it is brilliant how she has the kids peeking around the tree trunk! The man in the oval is Robert Home Smith who was the developer for this whole area in the early 1900s and who wanted this 'bit of England'.
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This is the next really long section of the mural I showed you last week, found on Royal York Rd showing a bit of the Kingsway/Humber Valley scenery. This stone bridge was built in 1916 and still stands today and is known as the Old Mill bridge since it crosses the Humber River at the site of the Old Mill. The bridge fits in so well with the surrounding Tudor Revival homes.
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The door from yesterday leads up to a pool hall, pub and this intriguing patio. I like how it is cut out of the building and since it faces south it would be toasty up there even on a cool day! I'm saying that the glass barricade is a fence.
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I happened upon this cool sign on Bloor St in the Kingsway neighborhood and love the deco look of the stonework. I would like to see the neon lit up but am never out that way after dark - it may be worth a trip!
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These are the doors from the church I showed you on Sunday, Our Lady Of Sorrows. The original oak doors were replaced with these bronze ones a couple of years ago at great expense apparently. The figures show St Michael the Archangel slaying Satan and there are words on the right hand door, "Quis Ut Deus" which is a translation of Michael. I've never seen doors like this before.
This is the first section of an 80 ft x 15 ft mural that was painted in an underpass along Royal York Rd in the Kingsway/Humber Valley Village neighbourhood in 2015. The artist is Emilia Jajus and in the mural she is attempting to show the development that took place in this area in the early 1900s. The developer was Robert Home Smith and he built mostly Tudor Revival homes set in a park-like setting in order to create a little bit of England in Toronto. It is a beautiful treed area now with the houses all still standing. I will show more sections over the next few Mondays.
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This is Our lady Of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church which is located on Bloor St W in the Kingsway neighbourhood. It was constructed in 1940 and as you can tell by the fencing around the front, it is undergoing some renovations.
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