Down to Ottawa Street today, and one of my favourite buidlings on that stretch. Located on the corner of Ottawa and Moy, the Liquidation World building, is truly an underapreciated art deco gem.
Built sometime after 1937, the building still sports the “W” of the original owner Woolworth’s tiled into the floor in the doorways. The buiding is a throw back to the days when everything you needed was located in your neighbourhood.
My favourite parts of this building are truly in all the details, like the original monel metal showcase windows frames…
To the ventialtion grates and and black grantie cladding…
Or the stepped deco stone door surrounds on the Moy side.
I would love to see what’s under that cladding. I bet there’s a beauty hiding under there…
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EATING AT THE WOOLWORTHS lunch counter. ALWAYS A TREAT. my younger brother and i always ate there when our parents would give us snack or lunch money. most influential moment at the lunch counter. i went there for lunch and was a kid about 10 or 11. a guy sat next to me and ordered a cheeseburger with mustard and onions. i thought, hey, next time ill try that. so i ordered it. it was DELICIOUS. i fell in love with those condiments. to this day i only have mustard and onions on my cheeseburgers. all because i happened to sit next to a guy that ordered it. THANK YOU WHOEVER YOU WERE.