Updated 16/09/08 re mural info site
Al Parker's two-page flashback to 1993 and the unveilling of John and Alexandra Hood's elaborate Toronto Sun mural fails to mention the mural's future.
With the Sun building up for sale, most likely to condo developers, what will become of the siblings' 180-foot wide mural that marked the 20th anniversary of the Sunday Sun and the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Town of York?
(The Old Town Toronto web site provides a slide show and Mike Filey's capsule comments for all 32 of the vignettes represented in the 25-foot high History as Theatre mural.)
"I'm proud of the work," Hood says in the Sunday Sun piece. "It stands up."
The question is where will the 4,000-square-foot mural stand, if at all, once 333 King Street East is sold and vacated?
Can the Front Street mural be moved to a resting place for facades and murals, say Guildwood Village or The Distillery?
Or is it destined to be levelled with the rest of the building?
The mural being a reflection of Doug Creighton's grand way of thinking and the "old ways" Sun, we get the feeling Quebecor would prefer to see it levelled and forgotten.
A Save the Mural campaign should be launched to prevent the much appreciated and historically relevant mural from being demolished.
If it can be saved, secure its future before the bulldozers take aim.
(The Old Town Toronto web site provides a slide show and Mike Filey's capsule comments for all 32 of the vignettes represented in the 25-foot high History as Theatre mural.)
"I'm proud of the work," Hood says in the Sunday Sun piece. "It stands up."
The question is where will the 4,000-square-foot mural stand, if at all, once 333 King Street East is sold and vacated?
Can the Front Street mural be moved to a resting place for facades and murals, say Guildwood Village or The Distillery?
Or is it destined to be levelled with the rest of the building?
The mural being a reflection of Doug Creighton's grand way of thinking and the "old ways" Sun, we get the feeling Quebecor would prefer to see it levelled and forgotten.
A Save the Mural campaign should be launched to prevent the much appreciated and historically relevant mural from being demolished.
If it can be saved, secure its future before the bulldozers take aim.
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