Thursday, February 21, 2008

Iconic Queen Street Stores Fall in Fire

Toronto's Queen Street West district near Bathurst Street was hit with a six-alarm fire during the early hours of Wednesday, February 20. The buildings that housed video store Suspect Video, along with bike shop Dukes, National Sound, vintage clothing store Preloved and cannabis shop Jupiter were all damaged beyond repair.

These stores -- and perhaps more so, the buildings, which date back to the 19th century -- were an important part of the lives of the people living on the south-west end of downtown Toronto, commercially and historically.

Read Citynews' story.

Photo from Citynews.ca

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