Passersby

Toronto is still light-deprived, and I haven't had much time to take photographs, so here's another old one, from 2013. Sun and a chance to shoot photos forecast for tomorrow.

Looking south from the Women's College Hospital parking lot down Dr. Emily Stowe Way and Elizabeth St.

The East Tower of the Sun Life Centre in Toronto, at King and University. The West Tower is across University Ave. on the left. The sculpture is Sunlife by Sorel Etrog.

Another view of "Pas de Trois" by Russell K. Jacques. A link to yesterday's shot is in the comments below.

It was dark today so I re-edited an old photo. The mural is by Nunca (2009). I fear it may be covered up by a building going up on the parking lot, but don't really know if it will be or not. Update, September 2018: The mural wasn't covered up; it was destroyed. The building it was on was torn down to make way for the new building.

An old photo re-edited. Massey Hall was built in 1894 as a place to perform secular choral concerts at modest ticket prices. As you can see, three windows have been punched into the carving of the building's name, and a fire escape was added to the front in the early twentieth century. Jazz fans know Massey Hall as the site of the Jazz at Massey Hall concert in 1953, the only time Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie performed together (as The Quintet). So for the Sight and Sound group I offer their performance that night of "Hot House": www.youtube.com/watch?v=i06rjXGH_KI =============== It turns out that Massey Hall portrayed the Baltimore movie theatre in The Shape of Water . Since it's a listed building, the marquee and other fittings had to be mounted without touching the building.

The très-très-bas-relief is by Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1958). The Pip at top left has a second view.