{"id":1878,"date":"2007-05-11T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2007-05-11T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T18:16:39","slug":"obsessing-about-sidewalk-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/11\/obsessing-about-sidewalk-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessing about sidewalk stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/images.theglobeandmail.com\/archives\/RTGAM\/images\/20070510\/re-leblanc0511\/archi_4pix.jpg\" \/>Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett has some serious infrastructure fetishes. He wrote about his obsession with sidewalk stamps in Spacing&#8217;s first issue and has continued to seek out the oldest dated sidewalk in the city. There are some serious contenders &#8212; one near the King Eddy Hotel looks to have an early 1930s stamp, but its edges are rounded down and it&#8217;s impossible to confirm; a reader once sent an email saying a stamp near Danforth and Logan was dated 1922, but Spacing has been unable to find it; on King West, almost two blocks west of Dufferin lies a pristine stamp form 1935; A residential driveway that abuts the sidewalk on Palmerston, near College and Bathurst, has a stamp from 1918.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Globe and Mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070510.re-leblanc0511\/BNStory\/RealEstate\/\">has an article by Dave LeBlanc<\/a> in which he and Blackett wander around Parkdale with their heads focused downward, looking for old pieces of infrastructure that could help date the waves of civic construction that have swept through the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Other sidewalk stamp articles:<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiandesignresource.ca\/officialgallery\/?p=1012\">Sidewalk Markings<\/a> [ Cdn Design Resource ]<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoist.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/design_daytripp.php\">Sidewalk Stamps<\/a> [ Torontoist ]<br \/>\n&bull; Claire Cameron&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claire-cameron.com\/site\/street_signs\/index.html\">Feb. 27<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claire-cameron.com\/site\/2007\/02\/street_signs_si.html\">April 11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett has some serious infrastructure fetishes. 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There are some serious contenders &#8212; one near the King Eddy Hotel looks to have an early 1930s stamp, but its<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/11\/obsessing-about-sidewalk-stamps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Obsessing about sidewalk stamps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[5677,5678,958,313,370,5676,5679,667],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streetscape","category-walking","tag-claire-cameron","tag-danforth","tag-dave-leblanc","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-king","tag-king-eddy-hotel","tag-logan","tag-matthew-blackett"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obsessing about sidewalk stamps - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/11\/obsessing-about-sidewalk-stamps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obsessing about sidewalk stamps - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett has some serious infrastructure fetishes. 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