Cent Right: Toronto Institution

cent right: The best part of it was the signs, my 5-year old daughter said when it was all done and we had exited into Mirvish Village to shop for comic books, according to Toronto Star. And if she wasn't 100 per cent right, by the end, she wasn't far off. Marcus Oleniuk/Toronto Star / Toronto Star By Edward Keenan Columnist Sat., Dec. 31, 2016 Towards the very end of Honest Ed's long goodbye more than three years after the store closing was announced, and about two weeks before its final checkout we took the kids on a pilgrimage, introducing them to the longtime Toronto institution just so they could bid it farewell. The signs, starting with the instantly recognizable 1,000-points-of-light marquee spelling out the name across the width of an entire blinking city block, defining the vista of the Annex for generations. Once upon a time, in a city whose retail landscape was dominated by staid WASPy surnames like Simpson and Eaton, Ed Mirvish virtually invented the discount retail store in this place, and it was a lifeline to generations of students and immigrants and people in plain old hard times. And in around those light bulbs, those eccentrically punctuated, terrible puns Honest Ed's a monkey! You can buy his bargains for peanuts!!' And down beneath Don't just stand there, buy something'!! By the end, if we're being candid, if you were actually looking to buy something, there were better places to do it, and plenty of them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.