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A. Stork and Sons stank unbelievably, as befit a slaughterhouse. I couldn't walk by without feeling like throwing up. I was amazed that they EVER got the stench out of there. How people worked there without going mad or driving their families mad is anyone's guess.

As I mentioned in another thread, the pioneer in screening silents in Toronto was Reg Hartt, who went through a few different locations including 801 Yonge St. (now demolished to make way for the huge Metro Toronto Reference Library). I believe Reg would have started screening films as early as...

Next block north of Britnells...... ...that is, the buildings knocked down to build the massive Metro Toronto Reference Library...one of these buildings was, I believe, 801 Yonge St., and that's where Reg Hartt's Little Queen Victoria Theatre was - the first in town, I believe, that ran...