If you haven't already heard the news, there was a massive fire overnight in the Queen & Bathurst area, and one of the businesses lost was Duke's Cycle, which had been there for 95 years:

More than 150 Toronto firefighters worked to tame the fire, which broke out around 5:30 a.m. in National Sound, a ground-level stereo store at 615 Queen Street West, just east of Bathurst Street.

By about 7:30 a.m., the fire had destroyed Duke's Cycle at 625 Queen Street West, five doors down from where the blaze began. The bicycle store — a destination for cyclists for 95 years — had collapsed.

"There is no building left anymore. It's gone," owner Gary Duke told CBC News. "My father was born upstairs, my brother lived upstairs. It hurts." [cbc.ca]

Very sad news. The good news is no one has been hurt.






Video at the Star, good photo collection at Torontoist.


[top two photos by fixedridingmetropolis, others from Torontoist]

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