Interventions to Protect

Wizz-Bang Corner at J.J. Davis Store and Post Office, 1894

BRANCH:
Toronto
ADDRESS:
1909 Yonge Street
Toronto ON
M4S 1Z3
UPDATED:
November 8, 2021

An intervention not to protect but to project history where it happened. In 1918 Stanley Francis Turner painted A War Record: recovering patients of the North Toronto Military Hospital, sunning themselves on the south side of Jack Davis’s store at Yonge and Davisville, a spot they call “Wizz-Bang Corner”. A proposal that A War Record be reproduced on a now blank wall was welcomed by the Starbucks manager but ignored by the company and rejected by the building’s owners. Two years later the wall remains blank, Wizz-Bang Corner remains forgotten.

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