Commercial Street veers off westward where Commercial Drive merges with Victoria Drive, and between East 18th Avenue and East 22nd Avenue are a few quiet blocks of mix-use buildings...including storefronts that have been converted into studios and offices, a Portuguese restaurant/social club, a commercial kitchen equipment supplier, metal fabricators, leather tanners, the odd detached house tucked in between the larger buildings, and the corner store that has now been renovated into a popular neighbourhood café...
In the past few years, upscale developers have descended and erected attractive townhouses and condos amongst these older businesses... thereby changing the flavour of a street that although sandwiched between more conventional residential streets has always been somewhat of an anomaly with sidewalks that were always empty and buildings that stared blankly out onto a non too bustling commercial street...
two "ghost signs" on the side and back walls of a furrier company...
old advertising sign from the 1950's for a laundromat...
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