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On Thursday night film types descended into the abandoned Lower Bay Station<\/a> for a TIFF party thrown by the Italian Trade Commission<\/a> to celebrate the Italian film industry. As mentioned in this post<\/a>, TIFF is continually poking its way into different parts of the city, though Lower Bay seems appropriate as so many big-and-small productions have been filmed down there. The Commissions (Italian Trade and the Toronto Transit) had been working together for months to organize the party, and it felt a bit strange to be going to an event like this given the TTC’s legendary history of staid officiousness, but it seems Adam Giambrone has loosened things up in many ways. Still, a small battalion of sharp-eyed TTC inspectors and Special Constables required to be on hand kept things from turning into one of those profane parties in La Dolce Vita<\/a> that the Vatican objected to in 1960.<\/p>\n

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Trains were in the station on either side of the platform, and on each was a bar car. We immediately thought this would be the best way of increasing ridership on the TTC. Random open bars rocketing under Toronto would certainly entice a few more people into the system. As for the wedding or Bar\/Bat Mitzvah potential of Lower Bay, there are some drawbacks. There are no washrooms down there so guests had to go elsewhere — three guys we met took the subway from the Upper Bay platform and used the toilets at Yonge Station, then took the subway back. The air conditioning was running in the trains, which were quite comfortable, but the platform area was hot as those A\/C units fed heat back into the station. The constant rumble from the trains above was nice as it mixed in with the sound of the DJ (check out this upcoming<\/a> Nuit Blanche project that uses sound recordings from Lower Bay).<\/p>\n

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The most fun about being Lower Bay is trying to figure out what is original 1966 TTC, and what has been added on for various film shoots. The MTA benches above certainly aren’t local, though they were nice to sit in.<\/p>\n

All photos by Liz Clayton (see her photos of Lower Bay from an earlier visit here<\/a>). Click below to see more photos or check the Spacing Transit Flickr collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Evolution of the yellow line.<\/p>\n

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Bar car. Likely not the first time people have danced on the subway.
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Old tiles.<\/p>\n

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Ghost elevator up to Upper Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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