{"id":3334,"date":"2014-06-13T22:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2014-06-13T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:40:49","slug":"forget-the-cn-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3334","title":{"rendered":"Forget The CN Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012_05_19_Star_May_14-1940_page15_375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012_05_19_Star_May_14-1940_page15_375.jpg\" alt=\"2012_05_19_Star_May_14-1940_page15_375\" width=\"375\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012_05_19_Star_May_14-1940_page15_375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2012_05_19_Star_May_14-1940_page15_375-103x300.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone visiting Toronto asks me about places of note. I like these and the ghosts of the dead people who were there. After Emma Goldman died at 295 Vaughan Rd. there was a service for her at the Jewish Community Centre which is now a Chinese Restaurant,\u00a0 346 Spadina.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.thegridto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/346-Spadina-970x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Glen Gould&#8217;s apartment 110 St. Clair Ave West<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/glen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/glen.jpg\" alt=\"glen\" width=\"1263\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/glen.jpg 1263w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/glen-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/glen-1024x416.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/glen-624x253.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1263px) 100vw, 1263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\"><em>Marilyn Kecskes was superintendent of 110 St. Clair Ave West. She described how she used to go to the roof of the building after she had finished her work and listen to him play all night long. She said, &#8220;He never knew I was up here or he would have been angry with me, but I had the moon and the stars and his music and there was nothing more beautiful<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mw2.google.com\/mw-panoramio\/photos\/medium\/66791877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Varsity Stadium 299 Bloor St W though it has changed since the Rock N&#8217; Roll show where John Lennon and Yoko Ono were recorded the record later called Live Peace but it&#8217;s still spooky to me when I look down that field I can imagine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahkD422brKM\">Little Richard<\/a> blowing hippie minds or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oI64M_L6Uik\">Yoko<\/a> deconstructing them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnyprovoost.net\/images\/The%20Plastic%20Ono%20Band%20%20-%20Live%20Peace%20In%20Toronto%201969%20-%20LP%20S%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Someone visiting Toronto asks me about places of note. I like these and the ghosts of the dead people who were there. After Emma Goldman died at 295 Vaughan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3334\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}