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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
As someone who has travelled portions of historic Route 66, it saddens me that this city once again shows very little interest in preserving our past. Perhaps I'm just a nostalgic old fart, but I wish we as a society would preserve a few more of these unique structures. Just grabbing the sign and sticking it on an LRT station doesn't do much for me, and the history of where it came from will be lost on most people within 10 years.
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I think the city does a pretty good job of preserving our past, at least the important parts.
Look at Stephen Ave, the incorporation of the King Eddy into the East Village, and all the work that's being done on the second block of the Bow to preserve...the name of the hotel escapes me right now.
Honestly, I like that the city is incorporating the Eamond's Camp sign into the C-Train station, and I think that's good enough. It's a cool old piece of vinatage signage, with that unmistakable 50's look that I think is really cool, but I wouldn't say that automaticlly qualifies it as a historic piece that absolutely needs to be preserved.
Maybe there's more to it, and that place is significan't somehow, but seeing as how I live in that neighborhood and all I know is that it's a cool old gas station, it either isn't that important, or no one is doing much of a job letting anyone know why it would be.