It appears you will be able to rely on the old bank branch at Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E. for your morning coffee through the summer of 2015. As pretty much everybody knows, the building is on track to become an LRT station. It needs a bit of work but Mount Pleasant (as it will be known) will no doubt be among the most elegant stations along the Eglinton line. Any station with a Palladian window over the front door is a great station. Sunday (January 18, 2015) the coffee shop was looking dark and business was sluggish. Discussion among the patrons and staff was that there might be six or eight months of time left for this Second Cup. It will soon be ready to start building the LRT stations. Metrolinx says it will have the tunnel burrowed right through from Brentclifffe Rd. to Yonge Street by late 2016. The old bank has come a distance from the turn of the decade (1920) when it graced the up and coming neighbourhood as an Imperial Bank of Canada branch. We see it (inset top) shortly after opening possibly ten years before Northern Secondary School just up the street was built. The lower picture is a bit of a hoot because it was taken after the 1960 merger of the Imperial Bank and the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Look at the size of that sign. Back then they hadn’t yet branded the newly-merged bank as CIBCYou can bank on this Second Cup for one more summer
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It appears you will be able to rely on the old bank branch at Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E. for your morning coffee through the summer of 2015. As pretty much everybody knows, the building is on track to become an LRT station. It needs a bit of work but Mount Pleasant (as it will be known) will no doubt be among the most elegant stations along the Eglinton line. Any station with a Palladian window over the front door is a great station. Sunday (January 18, 2015) the coffee shop was looking dark and business was sluggish. Discussion among the patrons and staff was that there might be six or eight months of time left for this Second Cup. It will soon be ready to start building the LRT stations. Metrolinx says it will have the tunnel burrowed right through from Brentclifffe Rd. to Yonge Street by late 2016. The old bank has come a distance from the turn of the decade (1920) when it graced the up and coming neighbourhood as an Imperial Bank of Canada branch. We see it (inset top) shortly after opening possibly ten years before Northern Secondary School just up the street was built. The lower picture is a bit of a hoot because it was taken after the 1960 merger of the Imperial Bank and the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Look at the size of that sign. Back then they hadn’t yet branded the newly-merged bank as CIBC