Annoying stuff and PHOTOS

[teddog]

Looks like the Lucky Star delay is happening AGAIN with volume two. I didn't place a preorder after what happened last time with volume one, but all of my usual Canadian online stores are reporting "Ships in 14 days". Please, Bandai, what part of "The Teddog wants to give you money!" don't you understand?! I refuse to order it unless I see a happy little "in stock", because I do not want to be sitting in limbo, not knowing when my credit card is being charged.

So, aside from that... YORKVILLE PHOTOS. My photos suck, as they're mostly of odd curious things.



Time to explore the Cumberland Terrace... through signage!



This is an example of some of the very basic signage in the basement. There's also...



Signs like this in the basement as well. Notable because for whatever reason, the signs in the basement use a completely different logo.



And this is what the directional signal looks like on the main floor. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. And with neon and shiney metal, unlike the earthy tones of the downstairs signage.



Another example of more oddities in the Terrace, this time from the ground floor. This little skylight-but-not opens up to the second floor. Yes, that is glass hanging DOWN from the ceiling. It has the wire mesh in it as a security feature, but it doesn't help the look of the piece. Oh, and that's pyat in the picture. Everyone wave "Hi!". His theory was that the hanging glass is supposed to match the glass and railings on the second floor.



3 LEVEL SHOPPING. Except that the third floor is now all offices.

And now I present... the creepy building and the creepy handicap elevator.

We only looked at this place because the Toronto Writer's Centre is inside. Now, the idea of the centre is kinda cool, but we couldn't get in. I guess your fee includes a key. So, nothing interesting there.

But we did find this elevator.



It looks to be fairly old. From a distance, it's not that bad looking. Up close...



It's FULL of rust and generally unclean. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable using it, because it's so boxed in and looks like it's going to fall apart. That is, if it even works.

And inside the building, we also discovered...



The magical balcony with no access! Seriously, there's no way to get out onto it. Why does it even exist?! BLAH!



And I'll leave this as a parting shot. It's a cool little cut between buildings, but since the building on the left is a movie theater, they have posters for the current films playing displayed in the path.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I need to download my pics!

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, you do. I think your pics might be better.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It's like the Winchester Mystery Mall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House).

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I'd say that the second mall is more of it. We went out using a staircase and I figured that it was a normal staircase because the upstairs was all offices. Yeah, you can't leave the stairs on the first floor because a clothing store blocks the exit, so you have to down to the back door, which spits you out in the middle of a rundown looking parking lot.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I used to go through Cumberland Terrace when I worked in Yorkville, to get on the northbound Bay bus. There used to be a really great funky clothing store on ground level, but it's long gone...

The alleyway is where people exit from the movie theatre. Which, late at night, can be kind of freaky.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I imagine that "back in the day" there were some neat stores at Cumberland Terrace. Otherwise, why would it exist? Then again, I marvel at the nifty looking stores in photo tours of dead malls so...

Eep. Even through it's a fairly busy area of town, leaving a theatre like that would be unsettling. I can't imagine that the alleyway is well lit.