Traffic Signal Box - Birds

 

Location: Moore Avenue at Mount Pleasant

Date photo taken: 21 June 2023

Image #19 in the Traffic Signal Box Series

Here's another signal box brought to life by the City's Outside the Box program. It was painted in 2022 by Erin McCluskey, her third signal box for the program, although her work can also be found on Bell boxes, construction hoardings and other projects around the city.  

Petro Canada full service booth

 

Location: Bayview & Moore

Date photo taken: 6 November 2022

I love finding retro elements across the city, remnants of history and earlier design aesthetics. Which is what I thought I'd found at this gas station on Bayview. It turns out that what I took to be a 50s or 60s era service booth was one actually installed in 2013 when the gas pumps were upgraded. Perhaps the styling is deliberately retro, a nod to the heyday of the full service gas station, which is itself a bit of an anachronism.