Where manual labourers came to die
Posted on October 8th, 2009 – 1 CommentWell now I’ve gone and done it. I’ve brazenly ripped off yet another set of photos from the Toronto Archives.
That’s what happens when I’m knackered and I’ve spent most of the night swooping around the financial district in Street View instead of posting! Oh well, if you’ll forgive a few sentences that don’t quite seem to make sense, we’ll be able get through this.
Man, I wish Google never came out with Street View. Between every few words … I manage to travel another couple of blocks.
It’s been thirty minutes since my last sentence!
Back in the olden days they wouldn’t have had these frivolous time wasters. The men with their genitals exposed to the raw atmosphere had enough to occupy their time.
The Royal Alex isn’t one of those locations that’s changed much. Guys are still freezing their nuts off out there.
The next random location — just because it happens to be a few steps down the street doesn’t mean it’s not random! — the next random location I decided on for comparison was the Elephant and Castle across the street from Roy Thomson Hall. In this case, there was a world of difference between then and now.
I figured I’d include something in the picture that I could match to something in the archives. Luckily, I was right. It’s the black building in the above photo that stands in the spot where the building below stood.
Hahaha! What the hell was that?! No one’s getting drunk in that podunk town!
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