Looking at these old photographs of the Alexis Nihon Plaza I am flooded with memories, all of them happy. The literally hundreds of times I passed through the Plaza, the stores that used to be here that I had forgotten about, the people, and what store replaced a different store in the Plaza. This shopping complex is always immaculate and well maintained. Canadian poet, Louis Dudek, lived on Ingleside Avenue which is within walking distance of the Plaza; he often visited the Plaza and invited many of us to have coffee with him in the food court here.
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Aerial view of the Alexis Nihon Plaza, looking up Atwater Street
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This photograph shows the site of the future Alexis Nihon Plaza when it was
a baseball park; you can see the Mother House in the background on the right
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4 comments:
Beauty! I have fond memories of that place being part of so many early sojourns downtown! In the Plaza i would hit the record stores and that head/poster shop.
Re: the record stores, i see in one of these photos a Discorama. And i also thought there may have been a Discus and/or a Sherman’s too.
Any help here?
Everything has changed at the Plaza, all of the old stores are gone. Sorry I can't help you.
Yes well we know all the stores have changed. The whole point of this blog here is to remember is it not?
As I said, I don't have this information.
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