Post #3590636
2026-07-04 19:20 UTC
Un-curious people are a mystery to me - how can you live your life and not ask questions about STUFF
The place I have been going to yoga is in a basement of this very old building (for Toronto standards). One of the rooms looks like a vault. I asked one of the instructors - “this looks like some sort of vault” and they said “I never thought about it, yeah, this door is very big and heavy”
So I did my research (tm)
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@renata@cosocial.ca 2026-07-04 19:29
It’s a heritage building, it used to be part of the The E.W. Gillett Company built in 1910-12 and it was not uncommon for those to have vaults in the lower floors to keep financials, or even money. I found this image of a postcard of how it used to look like. Now it’s offices and things like yoga studios Be curious. It’s fun to find out what things are and where they came from