The NY Times today: "If it were possible to wave a magic wand and make all Americans freeze in place for 14 days while sitting six feet apart, epidemiologists say, the whole epidemic would sputter to a halt."There is one of those 'leadlines' that has been appearing and reappearing for months - like"Best Lawyers in Grimsby." The picture was a decaying American farm house overgrown with trees and weeds, or a witch-like old woman close-up. So I didn't pay attention. Then yesterday, the picture was a nice house that looked like a Toronto house. So I searched and got the dailymail.co.uk story. I checked it out, as the daily mail is a newspaper and not one of those sites with names like this: dailymotion.com, doyouremember.com, littlethings.com, finance101.com, trend-chaser.com, travelfuntu.com, and so on and so on - pages and pages. Its own industry of ads.
The story was in 2014, and the house is in Bloor West Village, one article says the house is on Jane Street. That's my shopping neighbourhood when I lived in Toronto and I still visit. The picture of the house in the collage shows a typical Toronto two-storey - located all over Toronto - and considered a nice house to live in.
The story is about the interior as a time capsule of the 1950s/1960s, specifically, a pink palate interior, with a little turquoise thrown in. Every room is perfectly decorated in the time period - completely and totally. It was extremely well-maintained, so one walked into a time capsule. The article starts: "It's as if I Love Lucy could have been filmed in any room." Other articles say: "Opens front door to reveal masterpiece lost in time."
So our "open the door and guess what they found" is revealed.
Time capsule homes - this is a popular trend now: finding homes that are time capsules of decorating styles. Here's an article with an extensive gallery of examples, including our pink palace above. Each one has a name - Retro ranch, Illinois, 1960's fab four-bedroom house New Jersey, 1970s Palm Springs relic, 1960s holiday cottage, Australia. I never got to the end, there were so many.
Amongst these was an article with another 1960s time capsule home in Toronto - built by Toronto architect Gardiner Cowan. This one was quite splendid, of natural materials, grand spaces and light pouring through windows. It was listed for $2 million. It wasn't far from Jane Street - Edenbrook Hill - just north of where we lived - two time capsules so close and so different. The Edenbrook Hill house is on the Google Map and does not appear to be replaced with a grand modern house. Our Jane Street house was listed at $699,000. I wonder what the interior is now. I like the pink breakfast nook, complete with pink African Violets.Our pictures today take on the time theme. The first comes from the Chinatown district along Broadview in Toronto. The calendar was used to block the front door window. And the second reminds us of Carl Sagan's words: “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
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