{"id":63860,"date":"2021-06-09T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=63860"},"modified":"2021-06-09T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:29:17","slug":"the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived or been lost during the pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

There is a curious relic in the Annex. A squat building that \u2014 when we\u2019re not in a pandemic \u2014 hosts music and theatre and other live events. It\u2019s a clubhouse whose origin story is now so faint that one fellow flaneur<\/em> said: \u201cI heard once it was founded by expats from Down Under, but I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s true. Its Legion vibe is certainly in evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, that story is very<\/em> true.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s not often one finds a mosaic in a foyer with a leaping kangaroo and a curious kiwi. The club\u2019s crest exhibits the same duo and a Canadian maple, with the words \u201cSINCE 1931\u201d printed beneath.<\/p>\n

That was the year a few Australians and New Zealanders met in the offices of the New Zealand Trade Commission on Bay Street. \u201cFundamentally, as with other ANZA clubs around the world, it was similar to a Legion for those who had served in the ANZA expedition in the First World War and had moved to other parts of the Empire\/Commonwealth,\u201c says Michael Booth, a member of the Tranzac board of directors, in an email.<\/p>\n

The club bounced around till moving to its permanent location at 292 Brunswick Ave<\/a>., a building just south of Bloor that had previously been a commercial dry cleaners. \u201dIt became a registered [not-for-profit] on August 9, 1965,\u201d writes Booth. \u201cI believe the building was purchased in 1971 but they may have been resident in it prior, since ’67 or \u201868.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continues: \u201cThe club was headquarters for a lot of antipodean sports groups and particularly the city\u2019s rugby league, which was based on various ‘communities.\u2019 There was an English team (The Saracens), an Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and of course Kiwi and Aussie. Folk and roots music had been happening at the club since the ’70s….\u201d<\/p>\n

There were even, as legend has it, Maori dancers.<\/p>\n

It was a trip for music aficionados and college kids to hang with expat Kiwis and Aussies, throw back a \u201ccouple of tinnies\u201d in the Southern Cross Lounge \u2014 Foster\u2019s from Australia, say, or Steinlager from New Zealand. \u201cIt was always drinking fun,\u201d says one local.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t have two dollar bills to rub together, the Tranzac had the cheapest beer around \u2014 and the cheapest music. Indeed, some part of its reputation thrives on its free music nights. (There are paid events, obviously, too.) When the storied British folk trio Waterson-Carthy<\/a> played there one dreary November evening in the late 1990s, recalls booking manager Sarah Greene, \u201cI was at U of T and didn’t know I was allowed to go to TRANZAC. I didn’t realize you could walk in, until sometime in the early- or mid-2000s.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Tim Alberts and Philip Cottrell CD release party, October 2009. photo by Andrew Rivett<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The room was \u2013 and maybe still is \u2014 the colour of Jameson\u2019s Whisky, with a bar at the back, where the artists gather pre-show. The ‘stage\u2019 is by the front window, and there\u2019s been an old upright piano there for years. The audience sits at a troupe of lightly battered tables and chairs, which are constantly on the move, like icebergs, depending on the ebb and flow of patrons.<\/p>\n

The aesthetics don\u2019t diminish the quality of the sound. According to clarinetist Julia Hambleton, Tranzac\u2019s Southern Cross space is \u201cone of the best-sounding rooms.\u201d Hambleton plays there frequently, often with her duo Sweet Pea<\/a>, but also with other folkie or jazz iterations.<\/p>\n

But, she adds, \u201cif something heavy-duty is happening in the back room, the sound bleeds, (but they\u2019ve been working on that). So if there was a wrestling type thing happening, and you had a delicate singer songwriter thing, you might have some complications.\u201d They have, in fact, had wrestlers at the Tranzac. Indeed, pro wrestlers \u2014 both women and men, including \u201cCanadian Crazyhorse\u201d Michael Elgin \u2013 fought it out on the Main Hall stage in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mix of theatre and music is a lovely woollen tangle. The Fringe Theatre staged plays there for many years. Caravan, the international festival, was a mighty tenant, while it ran. \u201cCaravan was a huge money maker for them well into the \u201880s and early \u201890s,\u201d says Booth. \u201cThe Fringe also became a major contributor to their budget right through to their departure in 2009 \u2014 which left a $40,000-plus hole in the budget.\u201d The NAGS Players, which started from a rugby club, has been staging performances for four decades.<\/p>\n

Who didn\u2019t connect to Tranzac at one point or the other? \u201cMariposa used to run its sound workshops there in the late \u201880s, especially after that IRA-affiliated Irish club down on Portland closed!\u201d Booth writes, with glee.<\/p>\n

The three-day Winterfolk, one of the key blues and roots annual events, featured a barefoot multi-instrumentalist, an Afro-Scotian singer-songwriter, a Harmony Hoedown, and \u2014 the big draw \u2014 award-winning Jack de Keyzer, running a three-hour history of blues guitar session in February 2020. That was one of the last events before the club closed for the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The tenants upstairs in the two-storey building are The Toronto Zine Library, the Girls Rock Club and Bob Wiseman\u2019s recording studio. On the main, next door to Southern Cross, is the much smaller Tiki Room. Then squeeze down the narrow hall straight to the back, which opens up to the large room called The Main Hall. It too has a stage, and a bar at one side that have borne witness to a funky spectrum of events.<\/p>\n

The science podcast Story Collider<\/em> once drew in maybe 50 people to watch a range of characters, from an astronomer to a math nerd, one night when I visited. A millennial wedding drew a happy crowd of 150 or so, complete with requisite food trucks. I attended a wild birthday party, and then the staid annual Christmas craft fair (no cocaine in bathrooms that time). The beauty of that room was you could rent it \u2013 back in the day \u2013 for about $50 a night. \u201cThe rental fees for the Main Hall [pre-pandemic] varied by day of week. I’m actually not sure what the rent will be yet,\u201d says Greene of the reopening post-pan.<\/p>\n

What is Tranzac like from the stage? Nicholas Hune-Brown, now editor of The Local<\/em>, played keyboards there with Hooded Fang: \u201cI vaguely remember playing two new year’s shows there, one when we were just starting and one when we were the headliners, and thinking: perfect, there’s nowhere I’d rather be new year’s anyway, now all our friends can come. I think we were on stage during the countdown, which is too much responsibility. No one had a watch, I think we bungled the countdown, but then we just played a bunch of David Bowie covers and enjoyed ourselves. Playing there always felt like playing Toronto’s living room.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a pretty comfortable, bohemian-looking room. Lots of dark corners to hide in,\u201d adds Hambleton. Or, as one local blogger described it, it has \u201call the charm of a basement rec room.\u201d Nevertheless, habitues describe the space with great affection. \u201cWe saw the Against The Grain\u2019s\u00a0 La Boheme<\/em> there,\u201d says Janice Lindsay, of Pink Colour + Design, in an email. \u201cThe small venue made it intensely exciting. For the Paris street, which features a flirty courtesan, Musetta, the audience turned in their seats to see a raunchy encounter ON<\/em> the bar! And when Mimi sings her final aria, as she dies in his arms four feet away, it was almost too much to bear, in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Fiddle jam at Tranzac Club, December 2013. photo by Trish Thornton<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To me, the true draw, the action, is the music, because Tranzac has such a comfortable, drop-in kind of style. Where the Masonic Temple (once the Rock Pile)<\/a> hosted bands you could lose your mind to, and the Colonial<\/a> witnessed great jazz, the Tranzac was where the folkies clustered, like elves in a quiet cave. \u201cFor a long time, it was a real stronghold for folk, the classic form,\u201d says Hambleton.\u00a0The Flying Cloud Folk Club, and the Irish Ceilidh group Fiddler\u2019s Green, are residents and\/or board members. Hambleton first played there with the Woodchoppers Association (the name says everything).<\/p>\n

Nicholas Jennings, music journalist and author of Lightfoot<\/em>, started going sometime in the mid or late \u201880.\u00a0\u201cI associate the Tranzac with great nights of indie music,\u201d he says. \u201cI can\u2019t think of another place in Toronto that has that same vibe, that is devoted to showcasing independent music and they\u2019ve been doing it forever,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of the DIY capital of Toronto. It\u2019s got a little bit of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The venue has hosted every genre from avant-garde and improvised jazz, to old-time Appalachian mountain music, electronica, singer-songwriters, plus a weekly open mic. The beauty of the setup is that it\u2019s A) Pass the hat; and B) Please buy beer. Both the Tranzac and the musicians get a cut.<\/p>\n

Hambleton recalls a performer named D. Alex Meeks, whose band was called something like The Quietest Big Band in the Known World. Originally from South Carolina, Meeks came to Toronto to study improvisational music at York University, and has since moved back to Kentucky. He is a true Tranzac character. In addition to playing with bands like Hooded Fang, The Titillators and many other bands with wacky names, he would pull together roughly a dozen musicians, who would play very, very quietly, improvising. Almost inaudible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would get people in the audience to sit very close to the band,\u201d he told me. \u201cThere were a lot of reed players\u2026 We even had a sousaphone.\u201d There was also a made-up character, allegedly the band\u2019s founder, named Abraham Dust, who would send notes to the band before they played. Dust was a \u201cbeekeeper.\u201d Why? \u201cYou look at bees,\u201d Meeks says, \u201cthey are busy, but very, very quiet.<\/p>\n

Other great acts began their careers at the Tranzac, like Owen Pallett, of Final Fantasy. The ethereal guitarist Christine Bougie, for instance, started playing the entire Beach Boys Pet Sound<\/em>s here, fully instrumental, with a happy backup crew playing lap-steel, Wurlitzer, clarinet and cello. The last time Bougie could still fit an audience in the Southern Cross, the room was packed to the gills, adults, hippies, kids, standing where they could, in the foyer, sitting on the floor. After that the Pet Sounds<\/em> gig got too big for the venue.<\/p>\n

Do true Tranzacians still have a presence at the Tranzac? \u201cFor a long time there was a glass case that had a boomerang in it, and a mask,\u201d says Hambleton. \u201cThere were a few things that were gathering dust: a photo of Nick Fraser, a drummer. playing clarinet, in shorts. Random collection of stuff.\u201d Most notably, there was a black and white picture of ANZAC soldiers who died in World War I, at Gallipoli.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you were a bartender, occasionally someone would come in on ANZAC Day [April 25], honouring the vets,\u201d she says. \u201cThey would wander in and ask what we were doing for it\u2026 \u2018NOTHING, actually.\u2019 There was, sometimes, a bit of a celebration to commemorate the day. \u201cBut an Australian, maybe one or two, would show up to drink\u2026 They might have had no connection to the place before.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, as Sarah Greene notes, \u201cThat display case was actually removed a while ago, as part of our soundproofing renovation. We still have a number of Australian things, I believe they are upstairs; figuring out what would be appropriate to do with them is on the agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last Aussie events to happen were early in my time as President [around 2005, or so], says Booth.\u201d We did an ANZA Day reception with the Turkish, Aussie and NZ consulates, and we did a Queensland flood relief concert in 2012, I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the essential Tranzac Club prepares to reopen once the lockdown fully ends, it is fun to think of all the wonderful madcap culture that found a home in a place built by rugby fans from Down Under. That crew may be gone, but their spirit lingers. Indeed, while the Kiwis and Aussies drifted to the burbs, as board member and longtime soundman Colin Puffer says in an email, \u201cthey have never formally left the building. They are waiting for the Vegemite sandwiches to be delivered to the dressing room.\u201d<\/p>\n

top photo by Roger Cullman<\/a> \/ middle photo by Andrew Rivett (cc)<\/a> \/ fiddlers photo by Trish Thornton (cc)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0Susan Grimbly is a longtime editor and sometime writer who feels great affection for The Tranzac and its place in Toronto community. Follow her on Twitter at @sgrimbly<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived or been lost during the pandemic. There is a curious relic in the Annex. A squat building that \u2014 when we\u2019re not in a pandemic \u2014 hosts music and theatre andContinue reading “The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8484,"featured_media":63868,"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":[4,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-history","category-neighbourhoods"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d - 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\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived or been lost during the pandemic. There is a curious relic in the Annex. A squat building that \u2014 when we\u2019re not in a pandemic \u2014 hosts music and theatre andContinue reading "The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-09T14:00:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-09T22:29:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2047\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1268\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Susan Grimbly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Susan Grimbly\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/\",\"name\":\"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d - Spacing Toronto\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-09T14:00:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-09T22:29:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/53edb3bff20dd0a300f2327b53a3816f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg\",\"width\":2047,\"height\":1268,\"caption\":\"photo by Roger Cullman\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Toronto\",\"description\":\"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Toronto Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/53edb3bff20dd0a300f2327b53a3816f\",\"name\":\"Susan Grimbly\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/210345ed1c02164ea6edd6c9b28ab4d8?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/210345ed1c02164ea6edd6c9b28ab4d8?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Susan Grimbly\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/author\/susangrimbly\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d - Spacing Toronto","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d - Spacing Toronto","og_description":"As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived or been lost during the pandemic. There is a curious relic in the Annex. A squat building that \u2014 when we\u2019re not in a pandemic \u2014 hosts music and theatre andContinue reading \"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d\"","og_url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/","og_site_name":"Spacing Toronto","article_published_time":"2021-06-09T14:00:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-06-09T22:29:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2047,"height":1268,"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Susan Grimbly","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Spacing","twitter_site":"@Spacing","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Susan Grimbly","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/","name":"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d - Spacing Toronto","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-09T14:00:43+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-09T22:29:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/53edb3bff20dd0a300f2327b53a3816f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/tranzac.jpg","width":2047,"height":1268,"caption":"photo by Roger Cullman"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2021\/06\/09\/the-tranzac-club-torontos-living-room\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Tranzac Club: \u201cToronto\u2019s Living Room\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/","name":"Spacing Toronto","description":"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Toronto Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/53edb3bff20dd0a300f2327b53a3816f","name":"Susan Grimbly","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/210345ed1c02164ea6edd6c9b28ab4d8?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/210345ed1c02164ea6edd6c9b28ab4d8?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Susan Grimbly"},"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/author\/susangrimbly\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63860"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63877,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63860\/revisions\/63877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}