On Saturday evening I was almost looking forward to my bike ride, so that seems like a good thing. Travelling east along Bloor I noticed what must be the deliberately ironic Hogtown Vegan restaurant. They’ve even got the image of a delicious looking hog on their window.
I rode out to
Broadview and then north to O’Connor, dipping west to explore the curved dead
end streets along the way. There are some old houses and new houses but they
all look working class, and I assume that being so close to the cliff above the
expressway brings the price down, but I may be wrong.
At the top of
Broadview where it curves east to become O’Connor is an interesting old red
brick house that is attached to a modern building designed with vertical
stripes of rusted girders alternating with those made smooth green metal and
glass in between. I had to do some research later to find out that the old
house was built in the Queen Anne style in 1885 for B. F. Taylor, who founded
the Don Valley Brick Works. The house and the adjacent building is now a care
facility for the Sisters of St Joseph.
Riding back down to
Danforth, I noticed on the east side of Broadview that there’s a Rosicrucian
Lodge.
I stopped at the
supermarket on the way home and then at the new LCBO store where there’s only
one bicycle stand, even though there had been at least one more when they first
opened up. I asked the cashier, only half expecting her to have an answer as to
why there were several bike stands at their Brock Avenue location but only one
now. She told me that they had had three, but cars had rammed into them while
coming out of the parking area. They’ve put in an order with the city for more.
She explained that the LCBO actually had owned the property on Brock and so the
bike stands were also theirs. Now they rent so it’s more complicated.
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