03-01-2018, 08:40 PM
(03-01-2018, 03:50 PM)plam Wrote:(03-01-2018, 11:42 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Dating myself badly here, but once upon a time, many of the shops Downtown did have retractable canopies over the storefront. I miss them whenever I find myself on the sunny ("north") side of King St on a hot summer day - it's brutal!
I wonder what happened with canopies in North America. Montreal used to have a lot more too. You still see them in other parts of the world, and shopkeepers go and adjust them at appropriate times.
I don't know that it's connected, but istm that canopies came down about the same time Kitchener banned commercial signs Downtown that stuck out from storefronts.