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I wasn't sure if this belonged here or in winter activies...

TP was the place. On Friday nights it was packed like a sardine can, as much a social club as a shop. Booth Hobbies was near the junction but he was more into trains.

If it was designed as a single family residence and is historically protected it can't be changed into multi family. If a billionaire restores it to live in and the excess property is utilized for common dwellings the rich guy has a bunch of Joe Average as neighbours. It can't be gutted to use...

Yup. All I get on non contact is a message alert. Once it was from the police, asking for more info on a collision I had witnessed.

I'm a Toronto guy so it was TP hobbies on Roncesvalles. Cec Tate was the owner and salt of the earth. You knew when you had been accepted into the TP clan when he let you behind the counter to select the right grain structure of your balsa.

The heritage designation is likely why the place is left open. If vandals burn the place down it's a done deal as the heritage teeth aren't very sharp. In the USA it's serious once you're on the registry of historic places. In the UK it's similar in that it must be rebuilt to original...

Burlington R/C Modelers, Bayview Park, King Road north of 403 / North Service Road https://maps.app.goo.gl/HFJYSiRURWJUYVww5

I used to build U-control model airplanes 50+ years ago, balsa, fabric, glue and dope. I don't know if the supplies are available any more. I think the flying circle at Centennial Park got wiped out this year after a half century or so. R/C seems to be the thing to fly now but most don't...

Considering its location, near civilization, the abandonment might be part of a demolition procedure based on land value.

A yacht used to be a thousand a foot. Now that might get you a tinnie on a trailer. Pride of the fleet cruisers are in the millions. New boat = new technology. Boat by wire etc. Services are hidden behind liners. Restoring a used boat gets us into the practicality discussion and unless you...

I'm all for it if it means the storage yard and tow are on the hook for anything missing later. Without a warrant the inventory is sealed forever and can't be used to initiate any action or be used in court. The records can be purged but the internet is persistent. How is it insured that...

"Reply all" sometimes has karma. A property manager I detested decided to run as an MPP and did a bulk email to everyone he knew inviting them to a pricey support dinner. A lot of people hit "Reply all" telling him they'd rather choke on a fish hook. His full contact list got all the message...

In a Florida thing caught on YouTube a driver is pulled over by an ALPR with it showing an unpaid fine. The car is to be towed so the officers “Inventory” the car with the driver protesting she’d didn’t give permission to search. The police reply is “They are inventorying” because the car is...

Apparently the rules for MaiD are different and more accommodating in Quebec. My afterlife includes allowing my survivors some financial benefits and the freedom to live their own lives unburdened of the spoon feeding and diapering of an unresponsive lump of meat. Who are the "Keep-them-alive"...

And currents that erode erratic patterns that flush the drop through victims downstream

I'm trying "NO" lessons. No I don't need another project. No I don't need another tool that lets me fix more things I don't need.

"Further investigation revealed the man’s driver’s licence had been suspended for nearly a quarter of a century, dating back to 2001." Go for the record Bubba.

I was looking at the pics and thought they would make a dream advent calendar. Open the little flap and see what you get to drive for the day. Who needs chocolate.

Buying stuff and restoring it just to sell is for fools or people that get things for a dime on the dollar. Business minds say let someone else buy it and you charge them $XXX an hour to do the restoration. As far as the waste of $15,000 goes, what would you rather do? Stand around looking at...