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26Mar/104

Affordable Gastown Accommodation

I was in Gastown last weekend having lunch across from this supposed place you can stay at that has "New, Clean Rooms". After looking in the front window I noticed a utilitarian bucket from Home Depot (a building/home renovation supply store) and a rotary telephone on the front desk that's from 1982. These things advertised in the front window spell neither "clean" nor "new".

29Jan/100

It’s Not a Mini Casa Loma

This is somebody's day-to-day house. They undertook a renovation by keeping the bones of the original structure then applying a rock façade to the front à la medieval castle style. If there were a moat and trojan horse out front instead of a couple Hondas then it might look less Back-To-The-Future-ish.