Monday, April 11, 2011

The Corporatization of Queen Street continues apace

Queen Street West is losing one of the last surviving vestiges of the less fashionable, more literate, counterculture strip it was of yore.

The Silver Snail comic book store, that 35-year-old, world-famous emporium of comics, action figures and toys, is packing up its distinctive, colourful window displays of superheroes and moving elsewhere — to the Annex, perhaps, or Yonge St.


Queen Street there now is like the Eaton Centre without a roof, but it perfectly reflects the airheaded nature of today's culture.

Read more here.

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