Video: What Is Happening to Kensington Market?
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What a shame. Canada is is loosing it's identity from so many perspectives.
I went their once to see an escort in the middle of the day.
It's a dumpy neighbourhood.
The place I seen her in was a nice little Air BNB, but I wouldn't want to live their.
It's a dumpy neighbourhood.
The place I seen her in was a nice little Air BNB, but I wouldn't want to live their.
I stopped going to Kensington Market after the European Meat Market closed. That's what, fifteen years ago now? They used to give away bags of huge bones for dogs, if you just asked.
I grew up there at a time when you could buy a live chicken, get fresh lamb right off the hoof, listen to buskers on every corner.
When we needed some extra cash we would go out at 5am and be extras in the shoots and get $20 for walking across the street. Lots of great memories. It's a shame things have to change
When we needed some extra cash we would go out at 5am and be extras in the shoots and get $20 for walking across the street. Lots of great memories. It's a shame things have to change
Plus they gave the chicken's feet to kids to play with for a few days, until mom threw them out because they were starting to stink.
For several years, I played a game with one of the salesmen at Global Cheese. I'd get my piece for free, if I guessed the exact weight of the chunk. One time I got 1.47 kilograms of Jarlsberg for free, then the game ended permanently.
I walked through Kensington Market on Sunday, it was a Pedestrian Sunday so it was closed to cars which is a nice change. All I heard was Mexican music blasting and street food vendors vocally competing for customers.
Great days when they had the butchers and fish stores. The big one I think was called European meats. There use to be cheese stores. Now every corner is a weed shop.
First time I set foot in Kensington was probably as a kid in the 80s. , with my parents, we lived in the “burbs” of Toronto. My community was very white, and there was little diversity at all. So sometimes we would do a weekend trip to the city, maybe lunch in Chinatown, and get some great groceries in the market, and make a family meal that Sunday, with the cool foods we’d bought. It was so different and I thought it was amazing, the butcher shops and fish markets.
When I lived in TO in the late 90s early 2000s, I was in the market a LOT. Passed thru on my way to work in the am, getting a coffee, sneaking out for lunches there in the middle of the day, did a ton of my grocery shopping there too, stuffing my backpack and panniers on my bike with amazing quality food at bargain prices, and stuff you would never get anywhere near else. The place means a huge amount to me, tons of memories and good feelings about a time when I was getting used to being an adult, and developing my career and also identity as a person.
But unfortunately I do believe its days are numbered. It’s in the heart of one of the most expensive cities on the continent and the property is too valuable to have just a bunch of immigrant run, mom and pop fruit and veg, meat and fish markets. It’s sad, but I don’t think it has a chance. Which I hate, because Kensington really is one of this Toronto born boy’s places ever.
When I lived in TO in the late 90s early 2000s, I was in the market a LOT. Passed thru on my way to work in the am, getting a coffee, sneaking out for lunches there in the middle of the day, did a ton of my grocery shopping there too, stuffing my backpack and panniers on my bike with amazing quality food at bargain prices, and stuff you would never get anywhere near else. The place means a huge amount to me, tons of memories and good feelings about a time when I was getting used to being an adult, and developing my career and also identity as a person.
But unfortunately I do believe its days are numbered. It’s in the heart of one of the most expensive cities on the continent and the property is too valuable to have just a bunch of immigrant run, mom and pop fruit and veg, meat and fish markets. It’s sad, but I don’t think it has a chance. Which I hate, because Kensington really is one of this Toronto born boy’s places ever.
Kensington market is a time in your life, not a location. You find the vibe, you enjoy it in all its glory then you move on with your life and the market changes a little bit each evolution. It will always be in flux.
Same with the Annex. There is always a new generation coming up.
Fond memories.
Same with the Annex. There is always a new generation coming up.
Fond memories.
I watched that three weeks ago. Not once did he mention the mentally ill drug addicts encamped at the church up on Collage or all the human shit on the sidewalk on Agusta.
Disgusta.
It's what a 15 minute left wing shit hole city looks like.
Losser ville.
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