K Taylor

Big, BIG day here! My book - Toronto: City of Commerce - is officially out! AND a box of copies was just dropped off! Here I am opening it up, holding it for the first time ... what a marvellous, absolutely bonkers feeling ... Happy 1st day, lil’ book.

As I reflect on 2025, my 7th year on this platform, I celebrate the @BlueJays’ phenomenal World Series run, @MovieMayor’s 10,000th post shewing the satirical underbelly of our fine city, and @OneGalsToronto’s views of the delightful terrazzos that I used to just float past. 1/3

@CaitlinKellyNYC Aw, love it! Have fun!

@OneGalsToronto Going to be ccccccold! But hoping to skate.

After 5 months of anxiety, husband’s stage 2 lung cancer cancer gone. Surgery still ahead to reach the goal of NED (no evidence of disease.) We are happily stunned. Only those on the same path, patient and caregiver, know this exhaustion and hoped for relief. #cancer

@CaitlinKellyNYC Oh, fantastic! I hope you have the most marvelous time and that the city puts on its best for you 😀

@OneGalsToronto Thank you!! Heading to Toronto this weekend for a week of pure indulgence and old friends.

@Basscadet_404 Hmm, don’t recall that one but I’ll keep an eye out for it next time I’m in the area.

@OneGalsToronto I remember a coffee shop by Wallace and Lansdowne and it had a really old giant map of Toronto.. I wonder if that place is still there.

Big bruiser clouds in the west end just now. Looking NE from the Wallace St bridge.

@Basscadet_404 Oh wow, hadn’t thought about that for some time. Maple Leaf, if I recall. The scent of my childhood, mingled with the chocolate breezes which drifted over from Rowntree on Sterling. Yeah, that place is gone now - or so my nose tells me.

@OneGalsToronto Is that very stenchy bone melting factory still south of Wallace next to what I remember was an empty ttc property that probably used to be a streetcar shop?

@Basscadet_404 Yeah, it’s pretty wild - a good deal different from when I was growing up there.

@OneGalsToronto All these new tracks. The area changed. I used to live on Armstrong.

@lilwaynekennedy I don’t know of any updates on its status but there was a fire (though perhaps not arson) a few years ago and someone staying in the building died.

@OneGalsToronto Has anyone written an update to that story in a few years? Last I understood they were letting it rot because the city didn't allow what they wanted. Only thing I'm surprised at is that there's not been arson yet.

@lilwaynekennedy Nope. It’ll be a loooong time coming.

@OneGalsToronto Still no Giraffe condo

@SturdyHugh Thank you, Hugh. It certainly is like nothing else. All my best to you - hope you’re doing okay too.

@OneGalsToronto Thank you K. Hope you are ding ok. Caregiving is a challenge.

So today I turn 62. This past 5 plus years I have been my mom’s primary caregiver. She has been in LTC since April. I continue to advocate for her care. Although where she is has good staff and is a good place, even they are under staffed. If I could ask anything for my birthday,

@e_bloor I’m happy to hear it! Couldn’t be in better hands.

It still speaks to me, and so it hath been adopted. Thank you, @OneGalsToronto.

This one speaks to me!

The Victoria Garden Apartments at 2400 Queen St E, built 1931. #WindowsOnWednesday

@leswilliams2 Then my work here is done, ha!

@OneGalsToronto Wow, I live near there & I never noticed that, LOL !

An old favourite for #tiletuesday. - 497 Bloor St W

@Basscadet_404 Glad you know it. It’s a great one.

@OneGalsToronto I've walked by this before..

@SocMedGirlyyj Hurrah! I’m glad they’ve worked in our favour too! 💙💚

@OneGalsToronto I have taken too many of those colours over the years, but I find them lovely.😍 Thankfully, you randomly came into my feed and I'm so happy the algos were positive for a change! 🩷

TIL there's a thing called #TileTuesday, and I am here for it! I've been taking photos of tiles for years. I might also expand the definition to cement "tiles". 😉 Here's a colour combo that I never tire of, blue and green and all their variations.💙💚🩵 h/t @OneGalsToronto! 🙏

@SturdyHugh Me too. I was able to identify two Joes that lived here. The first was a Joseph McCarthy (I know) in 1915. The second was a tailor named Joe Ujhegyi in the late '50s. Wish I knew for certain who this was done for.

@OneGalsToronto Makes me curious to know who Joe was.

@ArtWong128 I was thinking something similar about their weight bearing, though being in the city they wouldn’t be getting any more snow than other places. It’s a shame they’re not more common, they’re really neat - but I suppose they pose too much of a tripping hazard.

@OneGalsToronto I’m glad they’re set aside! Are these domed manhole covers located in spots that might collect a lot of snow? The domed shape is perhaps a little stronger to vertical loads 🤔

Another McIntyre & Taylor cover near Bathurst and Bloor. This one is slightly domed and has Toronto spelled correctly. #manholecoverMonday