On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:11 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > Struck me more as a "seen better days before we were by-passed by the > Interstate" kind of motel. > > It was probably first rate back when Route 66 was still the primary highway > out to California [I realize this isn't actually on the way to California], > but modern highways took travelers by a different route and the owners > couldn't compete with the big chains. I think you've hit the nail on the head, John. Lakeshore Blvd., where this was shot, is Highway 2, formerly the main (and only) highway between Toronto and Hamilton, heading towards the Niagara Peninsula (and Falls) and the USA. Some 50 years ago they built the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW to the locals), a multi-lane limited access expressway. There used to be many such hotels along the Lakeshore, but they're almost all gone now, either abandoned shells or long since developed into condos. Thanks to everyone who commented. Glad you liked it. Personally, I thought what made the pic was the pickup truck, the tilted phone booth with the discarded pop can next to it and that glorious sign! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
