Pyat and Teddog go to the park

[pyat]

Went exploring with commanderteddog today, just at random. We explored an odd marble-clad stairwell that went deep beneath the already subterranean path, found a mysterious Staples outlet, and explored the worst playground in Toronto.




I mean, really, just look at these lame monkey bars.


First of all, this hedge maze goes NOWHERE. Secondly, it's made of freaking GLASS.


I admire Toronto's dedication to public green space.


Hey, look! This wading pool is fed by rainwater from a trough!


Come on in! The garbage is fine!

Yeah, okay, so these are all actually examples of public art.


I find the bad English on this sign to be curiously charming.


This old firehall is now something called the "Gilda Radner Club," something to do with cancer survivors/people living with cancer.


This skycraper looks complete - save for a stripe of plywood boards rising its entire length.


Walking the PATH, a hallway serving as a sort of airlock between the Scotiabank Plaza and Dundee Place.




Deep underground, people banking in a lurid neon glow.


This curiously antique stairwell is connected to a very sleek and modern underground mall, part of the much older skyscraper above it. It went down several more flights, terminating in... a locked door!


Built in 1910, and looking much more modern than some much newer structures nearby.


The Ontario Heritage Centre. A middle-aged woman rather snarkily informed us that it was not a public building, when I checked for a public washroom.

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[(Anonymous)]

Nothing in Scarborough is accessible! You can get from downtown Hamilton to downtown Toronto on public transit faster than you can get from Scarborough to downtown. It's also an area where they should have put a freeway in (not that I'm a fan of car culture!), but it was killed off and now you can't drive into Scarborough very well either.