Nostalgia tripping via old Toronto postcards
Old postcards of Toronto might just provide me with the perfect way to satisfy my nostalgic desires for a glimpse of this city’s history. And when they depict buildings that still exist, their power is all the more palpable, offering my limited imagination a picture of the past in the present.
I wasn’t, of course, around to experience the Toronto of these images (unlike my on the 70s and 80s), but somehow they still inspire longing. Both foreign and familiar, I’m caught wanting to travel to this contradictory “place.”
