John FitzGerald's photos with the keyword: store

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.

I like the full-screen version of this. Not saying you have to.

These colours seemed like a good idea at the time. Maybe they are. But I'll leave that question up to you. I apologize for any discomfort you may experience. You might enjoy clicking on the full screen version and touring the details. Just a suggestion. This was taken on Spadina Avenue in Toronto in April 2016,

The note at upper left has a longer view of the store.

A trade card uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park's weekly theme "Stores (interiors or exteriors)". Tulip was copyrighted in 1904. The 2 Macs were at this corner from 1892 to 1923, when the store moved to Mackenzie Avenue. I probably found this at the St. Lawrence Market Collectibles Show in Toronto but I'm not certain. The sign at the top of the store says "The Busy Store On The Busy Corner". A history of the Busy Corner: www.historynerd.ca/2016/07/05/the-busiest-corner-on-the-busiest-street

The entire store is like this window. To shop there you need extensive slithering skills. It makes the old Honest Ed's look like a bowling alley.

I now have my photographing arm in a sling for a week after minor surgery on my elbow (recovering well, thank you), so more old photos are coming. This is a re-edit of a photo I posted on Flickr (feh) years ago. An atrocious capture but. friends, is that all there is to photography? As Canadian Pacific has pointed out, perfection is so overdone in the age of Photoshop.