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Happy Wednesday Wall!

nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:06:59 +0000

Church St, at King St,, Toronto, April, 2013.

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nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:59:35 +0000

Ten years since this shot was taken, this Paradise is is still not a parking lot. Appropriately, a church is next door, and this could easily be mistaken for an extension of it.

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nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:55:09 +0000

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Toronto, November 2015.

Happy Wednesday Wall

nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:11:51 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:00:35 +0000

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I did not put that drink there. I did not touch it. Somebody else left it right there.

Michelin Man (inflated)

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:09:07 +0000

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One of the big events of the winter is a "big tent" and thousands of RV's in the Arizona desert.

This inflated Bibendum was part of the scenery.

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Urban boogie-woogie

nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:48:24 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:35:05 +0000

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Gone but not forgotten

nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:01:30 +0000

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Another tribute to Honest Ed's in Toronto. The PiPs at upper left show three more views of the store.

Ed's has now been replaced by a Big Bland Box. It's as if there's a conspiracy to banish colour from Toronto.

Eugène Atget would have loved this place.

More about Ed Mirvish:
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mirvish-edwin

Happy Wednesday Wall!

nobody@ipernity.com (John FitzGerald) — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:07:14 +0000

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Modern Add, Old Product

nobody@ipernity.com (Robert Swanson) — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:55:02 +0000

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The Sunday Challenge wanted us to create advertisements, so here it is.

The inset image is a very old advertisement for Quaker Oats (more than 100 years old). I just added some wording to enhance the ad a little bit.

The logo is quite old:

"The original 1877 logo featured a full-length sketch of a Quaker man in black and white holding a scroll with “pure” written on it. In 1956 Jim Nash adjusted this image to be just of the Quaker man from the shoulders up, also in black and white. This version of the logo only lasted a year before being added some color by Harold Sundblond (most famously known for his Coca-Cola Santa Claus illustrations). This featured the Quaker man in full color within a yellow-rimmed oval. The oval sits in a red rectangle with a navy rectangle below featuring the words “Quaker” written in white. "

In 1915, Quaker "offered a cereal box premium .... Buyers could send in one dollar and a cutout of the “Quaker Man” in exchange for a double boiler to cook their oatmeal with."

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