Halloween is one of the biggest pedestrian-oriented events of the year. Spacing encourages our readers to share their unique experiences and photos with us. Maybe you saw a great carved pumpkin or an interesting meeting between costumed people (I already saw a Barack Obama look-alike walking around with someone dressed as Osama Bin Laden).
Leave us your stories in the comment section; if you wish to include a photo you are encouraged to place it into the comments section as well, though be aware that the photo should be no wider than 500 pixels. Links to other photos and blogs are encouraged too.
photo by Matthew Blackett
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I had one unfortunate experience: just off of Bloor on Howland Avenue I spotted a car with weird music pumping from within or beneath it or something, and a guy in the driver seat with a projection contraption poking out from the car. Then I looked at the building to the left and realised that the guy and his car were ostensibly a portable sort of clandestine advertising operation, as the projected image on the side of the building was an advertisement. So yeah, that was depressing. Does anyone know what this was? Is it legal? Is it common?
What happened in our neighbourhood was something that couldn’t be caught on film. We live down in the Humber Valley on St. Marks Road and back on to Baby Point ravine. We all live in small 1000 sq. foot semis. The limited square footage generally pushes us all out on to the street and into the nearby parkland/ravine for many a social gathering. Last night, my husband and I pulled out some lawn chairs and as usual costumed neighbours started popping by, some with tumblers in hand for a glass of wine. Conversations led to the recent MPAC information everyone got and how it compared to purchase prices and future renovations in all of our minds.
This is a great neighbourhood, a small enclave pretty much hidden from site and off the radar for most. In fact, most friends who come down here don’t even know it exists. We all kind of chuckled at the recent Toronto Life article that reviewed whether or not you bought in the “right” neighbourhood. Sure Baby Point has million dollar houses and a view of the Humber Valley, but walk up there at night and you don’t see people outside sitting on their driveway, drinks in hand talking about current events, local taxes or politics.
I’ll take a small footprint, monthly pub nights at the historic Lambton tavern, community spirit and occasionally getting stuck down here after a snowstorm waiting for the plow to get us all outta here any day. Happy Halloween.
Alexander: It was the wall of The Futon Store, right? The company was almost certainly Optiadmedia. Totally illegal, in several different ways.
Rami is convinced that if the City had a single inspector that worked outside of normal business hours, they could shut the whole city-wide operation down.
Yeah it was the futon store. So what can we do about it? When one sees something like that, can one call police or something? Who takes care of that? or is there no one, like you seem to suggest? Plus, if the company is known to engage in this illegal work, can’t the company itself be fined or whatever? I don’t understand how a company can just do stuff like this with no penalty.
Most amusing topical costume I saw: “Skunks for McCain” on Church Street – http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/2995029383/
The neighbourhood Halloween play in Riverdale was an interesting experience (the corner of Langley and Howland was blocked off, a stage set-up in front of a house, full concert lighting erected on the street). Good silly fun.