Looking northeast at the corner of Davenport Rd and Bedford Rd in The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto.
The 2020 photo showcases the three-story building that once stood at 306 Davenport Rd, featuring a Buckingham Cigarettes ghost sign. It was built around 1904 and served as Lewis Bros Grocers until the mid-1930s. The building continued to operate as a grocery store, changing hands a few times until it was renamed Edward Whitehead Grocery in 1939, which remained in business until the mid-1960s.
In 1968, the building was repurposed as a Beckers store until the late 1970s when it was transformed into Just Desserts, a popular dessert shop in the area. Tragically, the location was the site of a fatal shooting in 1994. The building later became the Tiffany Tea Room Café before being converted into a Subway in the early 2000s.
The building was torn down in 2022, and there are plans to build a 22-storey condo tower known as Designers Walk at the site.
Then and Now
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- Photo: Denise Marie for TorontoJourney416
