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Going to The WBB in the 80's was a great experience. So many books to browse, it felt like they had every magazine and periodical in existence. But it did get a
by guyzero 2y ago
Going to The WBB in the 80's was a great experience. So many books to browse, it felt like they had every magazine and periodical in existence. But it did get a lot worse by the 2000's, turning into what Indigo has become selling gifts and other things. But definitely a high point of the pre-2000 retail experience like the huge record stores on Yonge St that are now all gone. Also, in a Toronto Gen X retail deep cut, Mr Gameways Ark was just up the street and was a mecca for 80's Toronto D&D players.
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- VancouverMan 2y agoJust this morning, a colleague of mine in Toronto forwarded me a link to a very recent video showing the current state of Yonge in that area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0onFRIQrGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0onFRIQrGQ That video starts just slightly north of where this bookstore and the stores you mentioned were, and goes up past Bloor. It is sad to see how sterile, and how deserted (in terms of people and businesses), that area has since become, especially as somebody who had experienced it decades ago.
- xattt 2y agoI can still smell the place!