barrytron3030
Active Member
that is a terrific nickname! that neighbourhood, mostly revolving around bay and dundas might be toronto's ugliest. there's hope though. my personal favourite nickname for robarts would have to be the ministry of truth.
what do you guys think we should call the "upside down" sears building on jarvis? the funnel? tetris? it certainly looks like an earlier, more friendlier draft of 1984.
what do you guys think we should call the "upside down" sears building on jarvis? the funnel? tetris? it certainly looks like an earlier, more friendlier draft of 1984.
adma
Superstar
Looking less like a shoe than like a shoehorn, if you ask me.
Oh, here's one more.
FCP = the CD Tower.
Archivist
Senior Member
I believe the Rogers Centre used to be nicknamed "SkyDome" (probably because it's dome opened to the sky).
Fort Jock? (at the U of T, a counterpart to Fort Book).
Fort Jock? (at the U of T, a counterpart to Fort Book).
TKTKTK
Senior Member
adma
Superstar
Like something you store CDs in. You know, tall, vertical, with horizontal slots, etc. So Toronto has the CN Tower, and next it has the CD Tower. Ha, ha.
Back when Huang & Danczkay's Harbourpoint was the most loathed condo on Queen's Quay, I loved to refer to it as a "Poiuyt"
GrinTO
Active Member
Actually the Rogers Centre was Named the Skydome after a competition to name it. It was build and paid for by tax payers. Rogers pays a fee to put their name on it.... glad it wasn't a stool softening company, vagisil, etc. that bought the naming rights.
Hipster Duck
Senior Member
^Have you ever heard anyone call Skydome the "Rog Majal"? I bet if it would've been renamed the Vagisil Centre that Torontonians would've affectionately called it the Vag Majal ("Vag" rhyming with Taj) or the Vaghalla.
adma
Superstar
In a really nauseating way, I'm now thinking of the Valhalla Inn's reputation as a cougar joint...
Torontovibe
Senior Member
One of my favourites. When they mentioned it on Queer As Folk, we all broke our in laughter, at Woody's. lol
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
Rogers bought the Skydome for something like $25 million and were able to change the name for practically nothing. There are other companies who pay much more than that for naming rights at arenas and stadiums around the world, and only for a given number of years.
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Air Canada paid $40 million over 20 years for the naming rights of the Air Canada Center.
http://espn.go.com/sportsbusiness/s/stadiumnames.html
Towered
Senior Member
jks
Continuous Lurker
Yeah, but the Air Canada Centre was built as the Air Canada Centre, it wasn't renamed. And after all, it does look like a hangar, so I can't think of any other appropriate name. I wonder what they do when the naming rights expire.
