Awesome. Looks like "Yorkville", I'd almost hang my hat on Scollard Street.

-- Edited by 73SC on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 09:06:27 AM

Its the kind of stuff you just want to put a frame around it and hang it on the wall. The heck with the wifes flowery pictures in the living room. LoL

I have several copies of that ad in different sizes, one day I am actually going to get one of them framed!

It is definitely Yorkville, so nice that Toronto could play a part in an advertising campaign that featured places from all over the world.  I guess even back then Yorkville was considered very "continental" and a good back drop for car you would like to take for an evening out on the town.

cdnpont wrote:

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The name of that painting is actually "Toronto".

Is Yorkville still the "hip" place it used to be? I google mapped the area, and it seems some highrise developments are beginning to pop up. Will the old charm eventually be lost?

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I guess he called it Toronto because unless you were from here, no one would know where Yorkville is.  There are still several streets that look exactly like that, ironically all located north of Yorkville Ave. itself.  Yorkville and Cumberland, the two main commercial drags, have really been taken over by high end boutiques, restaurants and galleries, but they still retain a lot of their original character, even though some higher buildings are starting to encroach now.

 

And The Pilot just down the street, on the other side of Bay St.  I like our motto;

"We look down on Yorkville".

www.thepilot.ca

-- Edited by Astro Jet on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 04:12:35 PM

73SC wrote:

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Still have to get there for my comp beer !

Was that 65 Custom Sport a plant in the photo of the Pilot?

 

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I might head up to the Flight Deck for one after work tomorrow - care to make the voyage downtown?

As for the Custom Sport, .

 

cdnpont wrote:

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The name of that painting is actually "Toronto".

Is Yorkville still the "hip" place it used to be? I google mapped the area, and it seems some highrise developments are beginning to pop up. Will the old charm eventually be lost?

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Speaking of Yorkville, a friend and I went to The Riverboat (basement coffee house) in Yorkville somewhere around 1965 and found out that a new young female singer/guitarist would be singing that evening.

We were early and sat down to drink some coffee while we waited. Being the young bozos that we were, we starting bull-shooting about the artist we'd never heard of...blah, blah....probably won't be any good....blah, blah. You know what I mean.

The crowd rolled in and a few minutes later a young lady who was sitting at the table right in front of us got up, picked up her guitar and walked to the stage........Joni Mitchell had been sitting 3 feet from us.

Needless to say, we shut the hell up after that.

We got to hear Joni in one of her first Toronto gigs.....right there in Yorkville.

-- Edited by 67HEAVEN on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 07:08:38 PM

 

 

anything 53/54 ?