[johnfowles]

I was hoping that Canada would soon be covered by the remarkable Google Streetview system
for a long time now I have been able to look at our New Jersey house and only last weekend I made some pix for an old UK friend now retired in La Jolla (San Diego)
I have also "visited" my old university building which just so happens to be on Prince Consort Road and pretty well opposite the Royal Albert Hall in London where I saw Gord in 1972 and 1981

I found that they have changed the link method for accessing any available streetviews:
there used to be a simple drop down notification under the view menu.
Now it is on a drop down list from the main menu under "more"


but I don't know how you lot were able to see any Toronto views because as far as I can see neither of those two menu arrangements just ain't there.
It is however there and functional for addresses in Montreal so I was able to snap the first avenue I lived on when I arrived in April 1964
alhough the buldings around have changed in 45 years!!
The one time Morgans' (later the Bay) store in the nearby shopping centre where I bought my first (United Artists) Lightfoot LPs has gone and is replaced by a supermatrket
I also found both of the last two apartment blocks I lived in.I then thought I would see what happenned to the site of the New Penelope coffeehouse where I first saw Gord live in 1967
the address on the poster is 378 Sherbrooke Street West
which Google located at the junction of Sherbrooke and Bleury
the best estimate I can make is that the building behind the streetsign might be where the place was

trying to find more about the New Penelope
I then googled for the address and found three items of interest
I was delighted to find a 2005 Globe and Mail article by Gary Eisenkraft's sister., that mentions Gordon:-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article873339.ece

It was Gary who founded the New Penelope in 1963 and closed it in 1968
I also refound an old corfid thread at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=15200

subject
"Lightfoot presents award to GUESS WHO - fe.b8-05"
and there is the interesting albeit lengthy and duplication ridden old thread subject
"My Lightfoot Connection" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=12816

which I for one really enjoyed rereading so I will be bringing it back to the top