Adam Sobolak

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• Commented on Edgewater Hotel Sign Comes Down
  Well, if you want to know where the owners' values lie, it's in their previous decision to mummify the Edgewater's yellow brick Moderne detail in tacky EIFS stucco. And Rohan (and maybe Svend too), if you think that's an "improvement",...
• Commented on Save the Last Deli
  From a Polish-Canadian perspective, I can identify. It used to be that rye bread w/caraway was the common standard, back when, uh, "the Jews" controlled the means of production: now with newer generations of Polish immigrants skewing the picture, it's...
• Commented on Historicist: Life in Wartime
  St Paul's Anglican (and its neighbour) sure looked dour back in the day--appropriate for the wartime moment. Note the reference to the POW Camp in Bowmanville--whose future is now uncertain (Google for refs)...
• Commented on IFOA I: 1980
  Interesting how fresh from a nearly-30-years-later perspective much of what else Harbourfront had to offer remains--esp. compared to the often painfully dated Historicist-type stuff of the same era we've come to be reminded of. (And it was all a year...
• Commented on Historicist: Remaking St. Lawrence Market
  "Weak historical architecture regulations" or no, the Edwardian train-shed aesthetic of St Lawrence Market would have been a relatively hard sell in the late 60s even among Eric Arthur types--and didn't Arthur's firm do the new North Market? (Right after...