This will be one of those posts about nothing much. I went out with my camera to see what was new on Somerset and up Bank a little ways.
First an update about those attractive new planters I was hoping for on my dead-end street. (I’ve always liked the way the trees meet overhead on my street. It’s better in summer, but you can still see it here.)
No planters. I guess they’re finished now. Same old chain too. (sigh)
Just across Bronson, PC Cyber has shut down their computer recycling store. Another computer outfit has come in and now it looks exactly the same.
This is the kind of little storefront that can really help a small business get on its feet. I remember it being an artist’s studio, a dog grooming salon, and a stone carver’s workshop, and once it was a coffee shop with one table. (That’s why it says “coffeeshop.”) It looks like something new is coming in. I wonder what it will be?
When I stopped in at Hartman’s to pick up a few things, I couldn’t resist some inexpensive laser items they had there.
I got this laser level for $3.99, and a laser pointer, $.99. This came with three watch batteries! How can they do that for $.99?.
Across from Hartman’s this dollar store has moved into the former Big Bud’s (RIP).
On Bank St. around MacLaren there is getting to be a glut of Brit-style pubs. The Royal Oak is the incumbent.
Now this place, Connor’s Gaelic Pub, has come in directly across from the Oak.
And on the other side of MacLaren is Biddy Mulligan’s Irish Pub.
But I’m not thirsty right now.
Down at the canal some of the geese were upside down, and the rest had their heads tucked underneath their arms. Maybe the geese know something we don’t.
Back at my street corner these folks shared a kiss, a kiss, a kiss to build a dream on.
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I took that exact same picture yesterday of the Coffee Shop/Stonecarver’s Studio/Doggy Salon/Second-hand Record Shop!
Record shop! I must have missed that one.
It was called Turning Point. It was there for many years (15?) before the revolving door of failed entrepreneurs started.
Turning Point must have been before my time. I thought that little building was the entry point for successful businesses. Why do you say they were failed entrepreneurs? Didn’t they go somewhere else and succeed?
Turning Point did go somewhere else – Cooper Street near Bank. They’re still there. I don’t know why I think the rest of them failed. The Stonecarver was almost never there; there was always a sign on his door giving the latest excuse for why he couldn’t work (heat wasn’t working, he hurt his back, flooding, etc.).
I guess I just don’t think any of them were there long enough to succeed, except for Turning Point.
I’m familiar with Turning Point on Cooper! I hadn’t made the connection. That’s a great store.
The Stonecarver is very talented. His work is ornate and amazing. I don’t know what his business model is. I kind of thought he made work to sell at craft shows, and so I thought he was doing that now, only somewhere else.
Aynway, I can’t wait to see who will try and make a go of it next, in that little building.
FYI: Community Forum, regarding the impending closure of the Booth Street Loeb, taking place on Monday October 30 from 4-6pm at Somerset West Community Health Centre.
Diane Holmes will be facilitating the meeting.
laser toys
the kiss of dreams
upside down ducks
I am suffused with pleasure reading the blog as always
and as always I am too swamped for proper letters
Nonetheless here I am always listening
Love P
Thanks for tuning in Patti. Come on down to Ottawa sometime, we’ll watch movies and eat giant bowls of soup.