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Posted: 27 Apr 2025

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The Buy & Sell #3

The Buy & Sell #3
The Buy & Sell was a junk shop on St. Clair Avenue West in Toronto. I have posted two photos of its front window before (shown in the PiPs at top left), but have never named the store. It was a remarkable place, crammed full of items of every type. A review of it I once read recommended taking a pair of gloves and a hard hat when you visited. The B & S also provided some great deals to compensate for problems like having to climb over the stock. Now I find that it closed after I left Toronto, and these three photographs are my tribute to it.

Andrew Trundlewagon, Gudrun, Nouchetdu38, Keith Burton and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo

17 comments - The latest ones
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
interesting

Happy Sunday evening!
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Annemarie club
Thanks, Annemarie, and all the best for the new week.
17 months ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Awesome series!

Admired in: www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to William Sutherland club
Thanks, William.
17 months ago.
 J. Gafarot
J. Gafarot club
Fine mix from our time . . .
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to J. Gafarot club
Thank you very much, José.
17 months ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club
This is what I would call a bric-a-brac shop.............and they're great for browsing around all sorts of stuff. I get a lot of my "props" for tabletop photography in these sorts of shops.

A smashing little set of photos John...........I could spend hours in there!
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Keith Burton club
Thank you very much, Keith. I'm sure you would have loved this place.
17 months ago.
 rdhinmn
rdhinmn club
Complete with french horn! I suspect I could have found treasures there. But too late.

Our town's one dry cleaning establishment is closing in a couple of days. One about fifteen miles away has been recommended. I sure hope someone recognized the opportunity for making a modest living and opens another one.
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to rdhinmn club
They once had a saxophone but no mouthpiece. I suspect that may been a problem with the French horn, too. This place has been replaced by a real estate agent's. They follow the gentry. I suspect the gentry would have preferred the junk shop. There used to be several coffee shops, restaurants, etc., along St. Clair where the newly arrived gentry mixed quite amicably with the remaining non-gentry.
17 months ago. Edited 17 months ago.
 Denis Croissant
Denis Croissant
Fantastic! Sad that it has closed...
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Denis Croissant
Yes, it is. I suspect the rent went up (the street is being gentrified). I never thought I'd see a doggie spa or a cupcake shop on St. Clair, but I have now.
17 months ago.
Denis Croissant has replied to John FitzGerald club
Depressing!
17 months ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
A pity it has closed down... These are "dangerous" shops as you always find something;-)
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Gudrun club
Yes, I often did.
17 months ago.
 Andrew Trundlewagon
Andrew Trundlewagon club
Interesting place. What a shame it has closed. The doll in the first PiP is rather terrifying,
17 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Andrew Trundlewagon club
My first thought about the doll was "here's a window with a doll's corpse in it." Which of course justifies a photo.
17 months ago.

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