gerry putman

I still haven't shown you the book Martin gave us for christmas. Printed by hand, copyright 1967 - Mika Silk Screening Limited, Belleville, Ontario. It's called "Toronto Magnificent City - An Illustrated Look at a Great Metropolis", and it contains over a hundred Toronto scenes. The one above is closest to where we live, though we could never afford to live in the slums and skid row mentioned in the text. What fourty years can do. Fortunately the skyscrapers Nick and Helma Mika predict on Queen Street were never built. I still shop in these exact same shops. And we own a peeling paint and sagging verandah ourselves. And the second hand shops are very elegant. Today we frown upon the buildings idealised back then.