Just driving by I have noticed it.

My guess is that the cover on the concrete is too low (distance between the skin of the concrete and the first layer of reinforcing steel, if it's too low, then salt penetrates the concrete and corrodes the reinforcing steel causing the steel to expand and the concrete to blow out), combined with the famous Quebec concrete that suffers from ASR (Alkali Silica Reaction) due to the aggregate that they used in Quebec.

For example, here is a classic example of ASR occuring in a railway bridge in the Gaspe

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...4/DSCF4618.jpg

soooo, I know some folks from 'away' read this thread, and other Canadians who look twice at this area's name. I recall halting a tax form print run back in '93 or so, when I noticed addresses of "Dildo" appearing on the T5's. It was the user's turn to call me the dumb programmer.

At any rate, here is a Wickepedia contribution on fair environs of Dildo NFLD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_...d_and_Labrador

Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Dildo, NewfoundlandDildo 47°33.82′N 53°32.77′W, is a town on the southeastern Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is about 100 kilometres west-northwest of St. John's. South Dildo is a neighbouring unincorporated community.


Dildo
Dildo was founded in the early 1800s to exploit to the abundance of marine resources such as fish, whales, and seals. Fish processing and local small business are major employers.

Dildo has a fast-growing tourist industry. Dildo offers picturesque scenery, several bed and breakfasts, the Dildo Museum interpretive centre, the Historic Dildo Days celebration in August, the first cod hatchery in the province on Dildo Island, and a replica of a giant squid caught in Dildo in 1933. Dildo won the Harrowsmith Magazine Award in 2001 as one of the ten prettiest small towns in Canada.

Dildo has an unusual name that has attracted certain amounts of attention. Dildos are the traditional name for the two round pegs in a dory (small traditional rowboat) which braces the oars when rowing. A dildo is also an object often shaped like an erect penis used for sexual stimulation. There is speculation that the town was named after from a location in Spain or Portugal; the name of a tree; or the shape of the headland.

Residents of Dildo are called Dildoians.

Dildo achieved greater notoriety when it was mentioned in the song A Night in Dildo by the Canadian musical comedy group The Arrogant Worms. A Night in Dildo mentions Dildo as one of many examples of real, but amusing, Newfoundland placenames.


South Dildo
South Dildo is an unincorporated community with a 1991 population of 272. At the beginning of the twentieth century, South Dildo (pop. 62) was primarily involved in lumbering and supplied one schooner to the Labrador fishery. South Dildo has the roadside attraction of a wooden lifesize humpback whale head and a seal pelt tannery.

Tiva: Is that mural in Winnipeg? I found a listing for "Iron Fist Tae Kwan Do" there.

And speaking of Quebec concrete, Roch "The Hockey Sweater" Carrier, wrote a novella called "The End", which is essentially the suicide note of a retired Quebecois concrete engineer. Part of his despondency, is the realization that his life's work is flawed and falling apart around him. Good stuff.

Nope, it's not in Winnipeg - sorry

That has to be somewhere in Ontario, most likely southern Ontario. The Gray Coach bus lines didn't run anywhere else. It was a TTC owned and operated bus service.

I can't find an iron fist karate anywhere.

You're getting warm, Charlatan

Interesting.

From what I understand, there is a huge problem in Quebec with concrete of a certain vintage suffering from ASR. It's caused by a reaction between the aggregate (gravel) used in the concrete reacting with moisture. It's not always an immediate problem, but definitely has long term implications.

Anyway, the funny thing is that for years, "they" knew that they had a problem with certain types of rock that came out of Quebec quarries not being suitable, but, because of Quebec politics, they kept using this aggregate in Quebec and other provinces even.

Any more hints Tiva?

I had a feeling this might be a tough one - It's a bit off the beaten path. See if this helps:

The mural is located in one of the oldest communities the east end of Toronto.

A well known greasy spoon restaurant in the “village” was used as a locale in the film "Pushing Tin".

Holy Shit... is that Ted's in Highland Creek?

No, but it is in Highland Creek... now the site of a Wine Making shop. This mural wasn't there when I grew up in Highland Creek.

http://www.highlandcreekvillager.org...gepictures.htm

I went to Highland Creek PS for Grades 4 to 6. My Uncles went there when it was a one room school house.

You got it Charlatan. I grew up right across Kingston Rd. on Colonel Danforth Trail. Ted's was a regular spot for lunch.

I've lived all over the area. I've lived twice on Centennial Road (my Dad went to school there when it first opened) and once in Mornell Court (a dangerous area). My Mom lived in the house (no longer there) at the end of Ellesmere, where it meets Highway 2. My Dad grew up in a house on Medowvale where it meets Lawrence. He was there before the bridge was...

I've spent a lot of my youth in Colonel Danforth Park, not to mention the Highland Creek Library, the Hungary Bakery (is it still there?), Heron Park (early morning hockey)...

I don't think I've run into anyone from there since I left there. My wife comes closest. She lived for a while in Port Union neighbourhood.

Enough memory lane...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/fbe2a91c.jpg

I once kept company with a gal (in my university days who lived in the Lawrence/Pt Union rd area. Goldberry Sq.). She went to sir Oliver Mowat high school.

This was right next to a huge park (Highland ck?). As I recall, y ou could go parking across the RR tracks down the end of Pt Union Road...

is that the cement factory out by Port Hope?

That's down by the mouth of the Rouge River, right next to the Rouge River GO station.

I always prefered to Park in the Valley behind the Zoo.


oh... and no, that isn't the cement factory in Port Hope.

[QUOTE=Charlatan]That's down by the mouth of the Rouge River, right next to the Rouge River GO station.

I always prefered to Park in the Valley behind the Zoo.
QUOTE]

Oh do kiss and tell! when I was a kid (around 10 or 12) we used to ride our bikes from Birchmount along (a 2 lane) Finch Ave, between the lovely apple orchards and corn fields to that very same park. Down that hill on Sewels (?) road, to hunt for crayfish in the Rouge. this was in the 1970-ish timeframe.

Now I find out that you were parking down there, sullying the peacefulness of the pristine carolinian ecosystem with rampant teen-aged hormones... Good on ya :thumbsup:

- there was also that parking lot off of Leslie, in Wilket Crk Park that was very useful and intimate.

So...

Is that picture a cement or aggregate factory anywhere?

You know the place exactly... in the 70s I was down there planting "Trees for Canada"... it wasn't until the mid-80s that I was down there parking and steaming up the windows. Now that I think on it, I learned to drive on those Roge Valley Roads. Especially the wonderfully named, Plug Hat Road (my aunt lived in a house that is now in the shadow of the Beare Landfill).

I don't know the Leslie Street one. The other place I would park was on Executive Court. It it is a dead end street in an industrial park. It is just north of the 401 and Markham Road. It runs south off Milner. That was totally private. Ah the joys of High School in Malvern.


And... nope. Nothing really to do with concrete. Lucifer may know this one as he has probably been by it a few times. Then again, more than likely, so have a few of us.

Burlington Bay Lift Bridge?

My guess is one of the off-loading cranes that services the boats docked at the Redpath Sugar plant on Queen's Quay between Jarvis and Yonge. I have a second guess, but I'll wait.

FYI, over the past couple of weeks, they took down the big Redpath sign and replaced it with "Tate & Lyle". Sigh.

Both JTK and Fresnelly are wrong but interestingly, both of them are close.


What? I didn't realize Redpath had been sold. I haven't been by there in a while. Going to have to take the long way to work tomorrow.

Is that the lift bridge down by Cherry Street?

And Lucy gets it...

Game on!

Emin Muil?

Frank slide?

splck has it. Game On!

Next up...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/splck/01902.jpg

Is that Lynn Canyon ?

(guess provided by coltrane_fan)

no, not Lynn canyon

Fintry Waterfalls

No, not Fintry.
This area recently became a park. It's a popular swimming spot in the summer.

is it near Nanaimo?

Sooke Potholes?

Sooke Potholes it is. Great place to swim if you're ever in Victoria.
Game on Charlatan....

Have a good weekend all, I'm outta here!!!

Here is an easy one... I am off for the weekend, if someone guesses correctly... game on!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/f9314cfc.jpg

Queen's Quay, near Yonge in Toronto. It's the old Redpath Sugar warehouse. I heard earlier in the thread that it has changed names (Tate & Lyle?)....

When you drive by, you can peek in the side door and see the huge pile of sugar (about 30 ft hight). There's also a sugar museum in the main building that's free and open on weekdays.
http://www.tateandlyle.com/TateAndLy...th/default.htm

here's a couple of angles that I just took with my new camera phone (with it's own USB cable!!!): *edit.. don't know why the pics are so big.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/9e116449.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/ac2eb4ac.jpg

where is this?

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...0/a5115427.jpg

St. James' Cathedral Toronto

Game on JTK!

I walk by that church all the time on my way to the Young Thailand Restaurant, mmmm Pad Thai.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...k64/photo2.jpg