The Johnny Strides video offering this morning had me reliving my daily trips to and from The Beer Store on St Clair Ave. W. by Lauder Ave. (currently the Fox & Fiddle pub), both before and after 2003 in which year I purchased my first DSLR camera — a Nikon "Coolpix" 5700. Unfortunately, Johnny stops walking at Northcliffe Blvd., a block short of where the store used to be.
By an uncanny coincidence, he boards a streetcar heading west, just as I did back in early-May 2003 at the same intersection — although I'm fairly certain the old stop was on the other side of Northcliffe. I had been trying out the Coolpix's one-minute video recording feature on that and the previous day (documenting some aspects of the Beer Store workplace) and I took another one boarding the streetcar on my way home after work. The recording is very poor in resolution and violently jerky, as I had the camera hung around my neck so as not to alert the streetcar passengers to the capture. The rustling is my plastic bag in which I carried my personal effects.
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