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Thursday, May 15, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/05/14/the-leaning-
 A wood pole commands the northeast corner of College and Grace streets, a corner it shares with Grace Meat Market, Scotiabank, CIBC and the late Cucina Restaurant. The pole is a bit shorter than the strip’s three-storey buildings. It is remarkably bent, curving both south and west on its way up. Thousands of rusted staples of various calibers cover it, thick enough at eye level to create a second, scaly skin. Age has etched crevasses along the grain of the wood, and a thick, rusted plate screwed on the College side (perhaps to protect it from runaway cars) has a tear in its centre. “The nails are from before they invented staplers,” marvels Vito Tucci, a local retiree who stopped to chat with me about the pole the other morning. “These nails are back from when they crucified Jesus Christ.” I’ve been admiring the leaning pole of Little Italy lately, as I pass after picking up my kids from daycare nearby. I am drawn to wooden poles, which in a manufactured, antiseptic world have a natural quality that is human. Workers replaced the wooden poles on my street with cement ones a few years ago, and I worry some crew will replace this one with something boring, modern and sterile. I needn’t fret. The pole, a western red cedar from British Columbia installed in 1950, was inspected in 2006, treated, and approved until at least 2016, says Thor Hjartarson, manager of system reliability planning at Toronto Hydro. Wood poles are here to ... |
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