Sad news starts this week as Toronto’s Revue Cinema suffered a heartbreaking loss in the early hours of Monday morning, when its marquee buckled under the weight of age and, most likely, snow.

Roncesvalles residents awoke to find the massive overhang face down on the ground, blocking the entire western sidewalk.

By the end of the day, the sad task of clearing away the smashed remains was almost complete. I arrived in the late afternoon to watch the cleanup and take some photographs.

More on this at DoubleCrossed.ca and some background info at BlogTO.com

The above photo is a ghostly composite of this photo from yesterday and this photo taken in 2006 (which appears on page 62 of Circa: An Urban Retrospect and is just one of many scenes from the book that has vanished since recent publication.)

Filed under: Toronto, the disappearing city on February 20th, 2007