#5 College Park Story - Sidebars that didn't make it into print
On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. The actual article appears above (scroll up) Historian, author and broadcaster Mike Filey remembers the great Eaton College Park store • It is part of the city’s history, it is part of our fabric • My Dad worked there … in the men’s wear. That is where my mother met him • Building showed the status of the Eaton firm, to be able to build that big during the Depression. • “flagship of the Eaton Empire”, but soil conditions and the Depression caused the company to scale back the size of the building • A Grey Coach bus would take shoppers from the Queen Street Eaton’s to College Park. They even had their own transit ticket. • I used to get my car serviced at the BA Gas Station at Eaton College Park’s Automotive Centre off Hayter Street • Building was designed by the same firm that designed Maple Leaf