Below is a picture of the famous New Yorker theatre
In London Ontario Canada at York street and Richmond in the 1980s.
Below is a picture of the gentleman who owned the pet shop in the London market during the 1980s
Here is A picture of the London Market Square around 1913
Below is a picture of the novacks surplus store.
My dad Janus told me he really liked the original owner .
And had coffee with him many times in a few different downtown restaurants.
And dad enjoyed having coffee with the original owner of McCulloch’s costume store in London too.
The great west beef steak house was located at 240 Waterloo street at Hamilton road and Waterloo street in London Ontario Canada. From approximately 1974 til 2007.
Below is another picture of novacks.
Dad also bought a brand new built house right beside Mr McCulloch in west London in 1980.
Residing at 59 ardsley road in London .
Mr McCulloch lived at 57 ardsley if I recall the number correctly.
Below are a few pictures relating to mccullochs and the beef baron strip club.
Beef Baron strip club was located at 624 York St.in London, Ontario, Canada. The storied club shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic and was briefly converted into an antique market in 2020. The building has since been slated for a new nightclub, Bad Bunny's.
I’ve been sharing stories with my sons about the old Cosmo City (now Music Hall) and how great that Laser Tag arena was. I was telling them about the abandoned city bus inside where you would start each game. Does anyone have any old photos of that venue to share?
Bennett's at 231 Dundas Street became The Majestic, across from Heintzman's.
Below is a picture of the London gardens on Wellington road south in London Ontario Canada before the building became the ice house.
The Melody Restaurant & Tavern was located at about
Below is a Picture of the ridout tavern and it’s sister bar the garage located in London Ontario Canada during the 1990s
In sweet London Ontario Canada, The 'Leach Apartments' despite the name, was a very neat and tidy little building on Princess Ave. at Colburn in London ON. The hedges were immaculately trimmed and golf could have been played on its grass. The photo was taken by me in the late 70's.
Remember the Westown Plaza before it became the Cherryhill Mall. The photo is from the London Free Press collection picture taken April 23 1966. You can see an apartment complex going up behind it.
Bowling, and books at the library, were two of the attractions there. Since I lived in the east end, I can't recall us going to that Plaza often if at all. Certainly has changed over the past 60 years since the photo was taken.
I still remember the radio advertisement advertising the mall inlondon in the 1980s when I was a child.
The song advertisement went like this lyrically.
“🎶”West town 🎶plaza mall🎶
🎶Plaza of it all.🎶
🎶West town plaza mall…🎶
🎶Plaza of it all!””🎶
Picture below is of York street and Clarence street facing the doors to the entrance to the famous London Mews Mall.
Picture below is of Cheap Charlie’s bar at first and Dundas steeets in London at the Oxford street location of cheap Charlie’s near mornington avenue or highbury avenue.
Picture below is of Dundas and Richmond street in London around 1950.
Regarding the main huge section or rather building of the 1973 LPH London psychiatric hospital built in 1973?
Below is an image of the very last part of that huge 1973 London psychiatric main
hospital hilt in 1973.
I include a video of the inside of that huge former hospital before its destruction completely here.
Entitled
"Visiting😍 hours🤩 at👽 london 😲Ontario's🤪 super🙀 insane👻👌😗⚡🤡☎️ asylum.🛸🥳" on YouTube
That specific hospital
Closed down in the year 2000 .
Stayed vacant for almost a quarter of a century
And then the build was utterly torn down by psychotically screaming construction workers completely in the year 2024.
South side of Dundas looking toward Richmond, showing Woolworth's, 1920s
Below is an image of the front doors of the temporary location for the argyle branch library at the Clarke road and Dundas street plaza
Before that location changed in the Eastwood branch library permenently and moved a few blocks east of the argyle mall .
Below is an early 1950s picture of the capital theatre in London Ontario Canada.
Below is a picture of the Brunswick hotel around 993.
Before it was torn down and the location was made into a parking lot.
In London.
Below The famous News Depot in London, Ontario, was most famously located at
262 Dundas Street. Situated downtown near the corner of Dundas and Wellington Street, this location was a long-standing fixture in the city known for its extensive selection of newspapers, magazines, and other publications
Below A black and white print of North Street Methodist Church. To the rear of the church are buildings along the west side of Clarence Street south of North Street (now Queens Avenue).
North Street Methodist Church, situated on the south-west corner of Clarence and North Streets, was built in 1854. It was destroyed by fire in 1895.
There is a handwritten inscription on the back of the photograph.
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