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Toronto's 23rd annual Taste of the Danforth was From Aug 5th to Aug 7th. A hungry crowd made its way east of the DVP to Greektown to fill up on food from local vendors.
The Krinos Taste of the Danforth is Canada’s largest street Festival, welcoming approximately 1.65 million attendees annually. The Festival is celebrating its 23rd anniversary and this year the Festival is even bigger and better than before. With dozens of free activities for visitors of all ages. The event was absolutely Greek Dancing to Music and of course Food, Food, and more Food! #danforth #crowd #vendors #food #greek #krinos #annual #august #festival #event #dancing #dance #music #celebrating #people #largest #faces #streetartphotography #stage #taste#TOTD2016 #outdoor #colour #summer #activities
The Harvest Brunch at Danforth Inn in Portland Maine featured Chef Carmen Gonzalez of New York. A Puerto Rican native, Chef Carmen combines the flavors of her heritage with her love for Maine ingredients. She offered a starter of Maine Lobster with Key Lime Mayonnaise and Avocado Relish on Tostones, Sweet Plantain and Guisado of Peekytoe Crabmeat Piononos. Then table service included three types of fried root chips (Plantain, Yuca and Sweet Potato) with a Smoked Haddock Spread, Apple and Mango Fritters, Maine Cod Eggs Benedict with Shredded Yautia and Green Banana Pancakes, Oyster, Sausage and Roasted Tomato Casserole with Yuca and Roasted Garlic Mofongo, Pulled Pork and Braised Pork Belly with Sweet Plantain Hash with Fried Quail Egg. Dessert was a trio of Silver Dollar Pancakes with Warm Green Papaya Salad, Crispy Churros dusted with Cinnamon Sugar and a Warm Chocolate Drizzle and Torrejas with Fresh Maine Pears and Requeson. There were wines paired with the courses. It was fabulous and delicious!
Participant in the Oxi Day parade on the Danforth today, which commemorates the 'No' by Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas to the ultimatum from Benito Mussolini in 1940 and the Greek resistance against the Italian forces in WWII
One of the first examples of the placement of neighbourhood/BIA logos on Toronto's new street signs. Taken at Danforth and Ellerbeck, April 30, 2010.
First settled in the 1800’s as Coleman Postal Village at the crossroads of the Danforth, which was a concession road, and Dawes Road. Improved for horse traffic when railways were built in the mid-19th century and named after Colonel Asa Danforth, an American contractor.
The Grand Trunk Railway had a railway yard east of Main between Danforth and Lakeview - now Gerrard - and built a station (York) to serve locals. The village grew and was incorporated as the Village of East Toronto in 1888. Centred on Main Street and extending down the Lake, the village was elevated to a Town and shortly afterwards annexed to the City of Toronto in 1908.
In 1918 the Prince Edward Viaduct connecting Bloor and Danforth was opened. Cost in today's money $32,000,000. Streetcar tracks linking Bloor and Danforth Avenues were extended to the Luttrell Loop, a streetcar terminus for the Bloor-Danforth, Gerrard and former Coxwell streetcar routes.
The area developed through the 1920s and 1930s as a streetcar suburb along the Danforth. Most of the housing to the north and south of the Danforth date from this period. In 1921 the Ford Motor Car Company built an assembly plant for Model T and Model A cars, east of the Luttrell Loop, south of Danforth. The building is still there - Shoppers World. During WWII it was a munitions plant too. Ford moved to Oakville in 1953. AMC then took it over for a few years. In 1962 Shoppers World was developed by Peel Elder on the car assembly property - one of the very first enclosed Shopping Malls in Canada. Eatons was the anchor with other retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Koffler's Drugs, which took its name today - Shoppers Drug Mart - from Shoppers World, Danforth.
In 1966 the Bloor-Danforth subway line opened from Keele to Woodbine and in 1968 streetcars were retired.
Danforth Village now extends east and west of Dawes to Victoria Park Avenue and to two blocks west of Main Street.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 66 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18228 × 9114 (166.1 MP; 194 MB).
Location: Danforth Village, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Mr Monster
a tribute to Forrest J Ackerman
by
Alan White
Alan writes:
Who can argue over the last 90 years, Forry Ackerman has stirred the gray matter of millions of fans the world over? Some to wonder, some to create, share, get involved, and more importantly, to think. The fact you are reading this is testament to Forry’s tenacity and love of life. And certainly, the legacy of the man will live beyond the pages, the movies, the collections, the conventions to all the people who will never know they’ve been touched by “Mr. Monster”, Forrest J (no period) Ackerman.
...
Whether you met Forry through the pages of some dusty tome, over a box of popcorn at a double horror matinee, a legendary Open House at the Ackermansion, the “Famous Monsters of Filmland” letter- column or shaking his hand at a convention, you are now charged with taking what you have and doing what you will to pass along the joy, the interest and enthusiasm that we all share to those less fortunate. If we don’t, then what does that say about ourselves?
IS THIS MAN SMILING?
105 boxes, a ton of treasures from my 62 years of collecting, went on the auction block in New York and for me it was a complete financial catastrophe and a personal tragedy.
“I hope you make a million,” said Don Wollheim in advance.
Anticipated Kenneth Galante, dealer: “You’ll make a billion!”
After the fact: “An unmitigated disaster” — Robert A. Madle, pioneer fan, collector, dealer.
“A horror chapter for New York Babylon”—Kenneth Anger, author of HOLLYWOOD BABYLON.
For the first issue, April 1926, of Amazing Stories I realized $36.
An inscribed foto of LON CHANEY SR, for which I anticipated wild bidding up to $5000, went for $50 ($40 to me).
With 3 issues of Schuster & Siegel’s “Science Fiction” currently in a catalog for $23,000, I expected the entire set by the creators of Superman would command $35-$50,000. (1 understand the world-class collection of Supermania is being leased to Cleveland for 5 years for $2 million.) My set: knocked down at $2750 ... less 20%
Two years ago I let go of my least favorite of three Brundage pastels for $25,000 (and no 20% commission to auctioneers). My second best (and, historically, her first published cover on Weird Tales) went for less than half that ... less commission!
Collectors' items were selling at 10%, even 5%, of estimated bids.
One dealer was heard to glee that what he bought for $80 he could sell for $500 ... Heinlein’s “Discovery of the Future” went for $600 (previously $1300 to a dealer) ... The 1912 “All-Story” featuring first publication of “TARZAN OF THE APES”, which the American Booksellers Association reported a couple years ago sold for something in excess of $8000 (and mine was inscribed by Edgar Rice Burroughs!) slipped away for $2500 ($2000 net to me) to a young Texas fan who decimated me afterward by informing me he’d been prepared to go $20,000!
It was a field day for buyers, “Freebie Time in the Candy Shop”; for me, Heartbreak Hotel. A major downfall for me was the lack of reserves on important pieces. I told the auctioneers in advance that I didn't want to part with a valuable piece worth, say, $25,000, for a tenth of its worth; that it should sell for at least no less than half its value; but they insisted that it was against their policy to have reserves: “You lose some but you win some and the bidders have to feel that it’s possible to get an occasional bargain” In reality, it was almost impossible not to get a bargain, and too late I learned that Vallejo and Frazetta et al did have reserves on their works: for instance, the highly-sought-after “Conan” was withdrawn when it raised (as I recall) “only” something like $42,500. My Brundage, “Tarzan”, “Fear” (Hubbard/Cartier), “Science Fiction” (Schuster & Siegel), inscribed Chaney and “Ghost of Slumber Mountain” posters definitely should have had reserves on them. The “Slumber Mountains” (no sleepers!) went for about one-third of what I paid for them and about one-fifth of what I (and others) anticipated they would fetch. Did it make sense for the Auction to profit 10 bucks on the sale of the Chaney portrait at the expense of a loss to me of a potential several thousand dollars??
Among those present at the debacle were Robert A. Madle, Erle Korshak, Julius Schwartz, Tom Savini, Boris Vallejo, Ron Borst, Mark Frank, Zacherly, Phil Riley, Sam Moskowitz, Stuart Schiff, Peter Michaels, EF Bleiler, Frederick C. Durant III, Barry Malzberg, John McLaughlin, Bruce Francis, Andrew Porter, Richard Bojarski, Harvey Clarke and David Hartwell, from Los Angeles, Texas, Canada, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, England and elsewhere. I have heard from Atlanta, France and Israel (!) that I was seen on TV. I think 499 of the approximately 500 present, told me I made their childhood or was their hero or idol or expressed some similarly warm and humbly appreciated sentiment. I was flattered that Isaac Asimov came with his wife and made opening remarks about me at the reception sponsored by OMNI. I have no complaint that I didn't receive all the (unexpected) egoboo one could ask for. But my goal of financial independence was radically unrealized. I won’t know for a month but my educated guess is that, after commission & taxes, I won’t wind up with more than $75,000 whereas my expectation had been for a sale in excess of half a million. Farewell, fond dreams, of another car (after 12 years), a vidicam recorder, money to restore & preserve important imagi-movie posters, spare cash to repay all major financial supporters of the Ackermuseum thru the years such as Mike LeVine, Bob Peterson, Charles Lorance, John Andrews, Peter Many Jr. et al, to invite quarter-century fan-correspondent Giovanni Scognamillo of Turkey to the Ackermansion at my expense, and in general play Scienti-Claus.
efanzines.com/MrMonster/index.htm To read the entire article please follow the link to the PDF.
First settled in the 1800’s as Coleman Postal Village at the crossroads of the Danforth, which was a concession road, and Dawes Road. Improved for horse traffic when railways were built in the mid-19th century and named after Colonel Asa Danforth, an American contractor.
The Grand Trunk Railway had a railway yard east of Main between Danforth and Lakeview - now Gerrard - and built a station (York) to serve locals. The village grew and was incorporated as the Village of East Toronto in 1888. Centred on Main Street and extending down the Lake, the village was elevated to a Town and shortly afterwards annexed to the City of Toronto in 1908.
In 1918 the Prince Edward Viaduct connecting Bloor and Danforth was opened. Cost in today's money $32,000,000. Streetcar tracks linking Bloor and Danforth Avenues were extended to the Luttrell Loop, a streetcar terminus for the Bloor-Danforth, Gerrard and former Coxwell streetcar routes.
The area developed through the 1920s and 1930s as a streetcar suburb along the Danforth. Most of the housing to the north and south of the Danforth date from this period. In 1921 the Ford Motor Car Company built an assembly plant for Model T and Model A cars, east of the Luttrell Loop, south of Danforth. The building is still there - Shoppers World. During WWII it was a munitions plant too. Ford moved to Oakville in 1953. AMC then took it over for a few years. In 1962 Shoppers World was developed by Peel Elder on the car assembly property - one of the very first enclosed Shopping Malls in Canada. Eatons was the anchor with other retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Koffler's Drugs, which took its name today - Shoppers Drug Mart - from Shoppers World, Danforth.
In 1966 the Bloor-Danforth subway line opened from Keele to Woodbine and in 1968 streetcars were retired.
Danforth Village now extends east and west of Dawes to Victoria Park Avenue and to two blocks west of Main Street.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 75 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18193 × 9097 (165.5 MP; 181 MB).
Location: Danforth Village, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
One of a collection of mosaics on the south wall of Coxwell station facing the Danforth. It overlooks a parking lot next to the old bus terminal and is across the street from the former Danforth streetcar barns
Toronto's 23rd annual Taste of the Danforth was From Aug 5th to Aug 7th. A hungry crowd made its way east of the DVP to Greektown to fill up on food from local vendors.
The Krinos Taste of the Danforth is Canada’s largest street Festival, welcoming approximately 1.65 million attendees annually. The Festival is celebrating its 23rd anniversary and this year the Festival is even bigger and better than before. With dozens of free activities for visitors of all ages. The event was absolutely Greek Dancing to Music and of course Food, Food, and more Food! #danforth #crowd #vendors #food #greek #krinos #annual #august #festival #event #dancing #dance #music #celebrating #people #largest #faces #streetartphotography #stage #taste#TOTD2016 #outdoor #colour #summer #activities
Toronto's 23rd annual Taste of the Danforth was From Aug 5th to Aug 7th. A hungry crowd made its way east of the DVP to Greektown to fill up on food from local vendors.
The Krinos Taste of the Danforth is Canada’s largest street Festival, welcoming approximately 1.65 million attendees annually. The Festival is celebrating its 23rd anniversary and this year the Festival is even bigger and better than before. With dozens of free activities for visitors of all ages. The event was absolutely Greek Dancing to Music and of course Food, Food, and more Food! #danforth #crowd #vendors #food #greek #krinos #annual #august #festival #event #dancing #dance #music #celebrating #people #largest #faces #streetartphotography #stage #taste#TOTD2016 #outdoor #colour #summer #activities
Toronto's 23rd annual Taste of the Danforth was From Aug 5th to Aug 7th. A hungry crowd made its way east of the DVP to Greektown to fill up on food from local vendors.
The Krinos Taste of the Danforth is Canada’s largest street Festival, welcoming approximately 1.65 million attendees annually. The Festival is celebrating its 23rd anniversary and this year the Festival is even bigger and better than before. With dozens of free activities for visitors of all ages. The event was absolutely Greek Dancing to Music and of course Food, Food, and more Food! #danforth #crowd #vendors #food #greek #krinos #annual #august #festival #event #dancing #dance #music #celebrating #people #largest #faces #streetartphotography #stage #taste#TOTD2016 #outdoor #colour #summer #activities
i visited with kjersti, annuka and agede today...it appears they're decked out for valentine's day and have invited me to their place for the celebration and the obvious activities associated with the day...
valentine's day cannot be here fast enough...
i cannot say how much i love red...or triplets for that matter...dressed in red...
and all the positions associated with triplets dressed in red...especially undressed...from red...