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One of Beach Hill’s clever residents knows how to create picture-information maps as an online web app. My contribution was photography. A few trips to Upper Gerrard Street this summer allowed me to capture the storefronts you see illustrating our commercial strip.
The web app is still a work in progress. There’s more store info to add and a Beach Area historian has agreed to contribute histories of the various businesses that has operated out of the present locations, back in time.
I wish that I had photographed the stores when we first moved here, 28 years ago. Marco Polo Pizza is gone now, where John Candy and George Wendt played a scene from Hostage For A Day, back in the 90s. The spotless little butcher shop is now a meditation centre. The shot I regret not taking most: Perferred Printing, complete with the spelling mistake in big red letters on its sign.
At least I have made a full set now. Who knows how these businesses will change, and how quickly.