Stroll celebrates Torontos details at the speed of walking and; in so doing; helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods; taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I personally love looking at 1950s homes and everything in them as ...By Eantha L. HaagenWoW! There is so much information in this book its almost overwhelming! The chapters are split into decades. 1880-1890....1950-1960 etc. and the drawings. photos. product advertisements. house plans and detailed cross-sections of various items. think ranges and dishwashers. are bold. bright and very eye-appealing. though there are many black and white pictures as well. I personally love looking at 1950s homes and everything in them as I grew up in one. The beautiful bathroom fixtures are here in all theyre gaudy glory! I do love the colour names; misty lilac. venetian pink. cerulean blue. the 40s and 50s used pastels extensively. Then you get to the 70s when colour schemes took a disastrous turn! Harvest gold. Burnt orange. avocado and a horrible crap-coloured brown. Who really wants a Brown Toilet (with matching sink and tub!) And let us not forget the vinyl floor. A boon to clean until someone decided to put little cracks and crevices all over the flooring where all manner of dirt adhered never to be gotten scrubbed out again! There is one particular photo of a family room with a large expanse of burned orange imitation Spanish tile vinyl flooring. two shiny olive pleather ottomans on wheels and what looks like built-in turquoise pleather floor seating. The walls of course. per the 1960s. are all paneling. Decorating schemes come and go. some should go permanently. but it is fun to look back and remember or see an era from before you were born. To be able to go through a houses. from an entire century beginning outside and its yard to each room inside is a bit of a voyeuristic dream. I was surprised at how modern a bathroom from 1904 looked! The front of this book boasts. 2500 images. They aint lyin! If you want a journey into other peoples homes. (who hasnt wanted to peek through the windows of some houses!) this is a perfect book. MY only complaint is that some of the pictures are so small as to need the help of a magnifying glass. but you sure get your moneys worth in sheer volume of eye-candy!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerUnique view of history and nostalgia.4 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Lots of stuff. very little informationBy S. J. K. HaleyI love Tad Burness Car Spotters Guide book and I highly recommend them to anyone into American automobile company design and history. So when I found this book I thought "great!".When I received the book. I found it not so great.One of the problems that this book has is that unlike the Car Spotters series. there is a different pool from which to glean examples when you are dealing with architecture. and unfortunatly. this book missed the mark more than hits it.This book struggles with what it is as it is neither a reliable reference book. nor is it a spotters guide. This book is sorta like a visual lexicon or a timeline history. executed at a high level (not much detail).The immediate shortcoming that hit me was the lack of accurate information on architecture - the author seems to coin his own terms instead of using accurate terms to describe many house style examples. I was also bored having discovered that many of the examples in the victorian section of the book - the period with the greatest types of styles - focuses almost completly on western American buildings. and of the examples there is an over reliance with the community where the author lives.Now if you are looking for visual histry on toliets. this book nails that fact and nails it very well.One error that I found was an image of a house allegedly in Carey Ohio - in fact the house was in Bucyrus Ohio (I only know this because a great uncle built it).I also found the image quality a problem because of the DPI issue between todays printing technology and the ads sampled in the book. In some cases the image is obscured by the minimal dots per inch and the clarity of modern printing.My advice is . this is a good book if you dont know very much about historical architecture and youre just curious. This is not an accurate reference book. If you are going to buy this. dont expect much. and buy it used.
