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June 4th, 2007 by Toronto Reports
Article by: Shawn Micallef
Yonge Street isn’t the permissive strip it once was, but it’s still the heart of the city
In late high school, circa 1992, four of us from Windsor got into a Dodge Shadow and drove up the 401 to Toronto for our first real road trip. We didn’t know much about Toronto other than the tourist places like the CN Tower or Casa Loma – neighbourhood names like the Annex, Rosedale or even Kensington Market had only a faint ring of familiarity – but we knew the first place we had to go was the Yonge Street strip. We parked, we walked back and forth, and eventually got served drinks (underage!) at the second-floor bar where Reilly’s pub is now, staring in awe across the street into the giant rotating neon discs of Sam the Record Man.