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| Bank Street and Laurier Avenue West, northwest corner, rear view |
152-162 Bank, a cluster of older commercial buildings hunkers down amidst newer arrivals. The five-storey building at #162 replaced a row of low (1 to 2½ storey) wooden and brick-veneer storefronts.
A fanciful oddity appears directly north of this spot on Goad's sheet #41 for 1878...
A defiantly angled two-storey brick house at #142 Bank once sat in the space now occupied by the little parkette/vacant-lot — where pigeons congregate beneath the "G.A. Snider Photographer" ghost sign. Woodburn (1875) gives "Rogers John, boarding house" and "Binks Wm, printer" for that address.
