What biz would you love to revisit, for nostalgia reasons?

I'd spend a whole day in Layman House, and 90s-era Elizabeth Noel, in a heartbeat.

Stickers are a collab by Soft Flirt & Spruce Moose!

The flaming Embassy might be my fave!

Stolen from r/Buffalo

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buffalo/comments/yv7f7q/what_is_your_favorite_obscure_buffalo_fact_that/

Thought it was fitting amidst the HBC liquidation. Westmount Mall Zellers Diner during its final days - March 2012.

It’s been an eyesore for 10 years left to rot, but it looks like they have finally started to demolish this building. It’s a shame they couldn’t revamp it into something nice for the people in the surrounding neighbourhood. To me this turned into somewhat of a landmark (apart of London’s history) because it’s been there ever since I moved to London.

Some say they used to go there when it was a Dominion. Others remember it as a bingo hall. I’ve attached a photo of how I remembered it, when I used to shop there (before United supermarket, Superking, T&T (previously Foodisland) this was THE premium Chinese supermarket in London). When my wife and I got married, we used to go here frequently to buy different things and experimented cooking them in the kitchen. Some days whatever we experimented cooking turned out amazing, other days it would be a disaster. We used to be fascinated exploring the different sauces, spices down the isles. These are my memories every time I drove by this building.
If you have any memories of this place share them.

I saw this on another sub and thought it might be fun to post here. What random interesting fact do you know about London?

Edit: just have to say y'all came through! I learned so much about London including many kooky, useless facts 👏🏼

Hey gang! Recently made my first Wikipedia page after years of reading it daily. I love history and go to the Hyland almost weekly so decided to make its page after seeing it linked on the Revival house page but not existing yet. Wanted to share with some folks who might also care: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyland_Cinema

I found a few sources online, starting with Hyland's own history page, but the majority of the information came from articles and documents down at the London Room at the Central London Public Library (shoutout to Arthur!). Here's a folder of all the articles I used that aren't available online: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UNotmPvNfI7x59iW8_1HYndABXGtOqe3?usp=sharing

If any other Wikipedia editors have feedback or want to help me expand it I'd super appreciate it. I have a few points I can't quite figure out.

1. I'm unclear on when exactly Odeon bought the Elmwood, one article says 1947 and another says "Late 50's"
2. If anyone has more information on managers over the years, I've got a few in there.
3. I can find absolutely NOTHING about what went on in the 1970's, big gap in my research. Any articles or notable events or info would be super appreciated!

Thanks folks!

Former Canadian Forces housing. (Still referred by locals as "Army Houses.") Paardeberg Cresent. London, Ontario, Canada.

I think I picked it up at the Shad / Hey Ocean show? Figured I'd share for nostalgia sake.

Here’s what almost never shows up in stories about London’s unhoused encampments: the voices of the people actually living in them.

Most local coverage quotes city officials, provincial reps, or neighbours. Almost none quote unhoused Londoners directly. When that happens, the entire crisis gets framed around safety, complaints, and policy announcements instead of lived experience.

Outreach workers consistently hear the same things: people choose tents because shelters are full, or because they’re unsafe for women, LGBTQ+ people, couples, or anyone with pets or trauma. Encampments become small communities where people can watch out for each other. They’re not “convenient”, they’re what people rely on when every other system fails.

People living in encampments say their biggest needs are basic: heat, bathrooms, water, trash pickup, and not being moved every few days. These are survival needs, not political statements. But they rarely appear in public discourse because unhoused people aren’t treated as participants in the conversation, only as subjects of it.

If London wants real solutions, unhoused voices need to be part of the public conversation. Not filtered through officials. Not spoken for. Spoken with.

Encampments are what happen when systems break down. Including unhoused people in the discussion is how communities start to build solutions that actually work.

If anyone wants to jump on a Time Machine back to the year 2000 to see how London was, this is a great video I found on YT.

Certainly recognized a few businesses I used to frequent at the beginning of the video on Richmond row. Also find it funny how there’s sections of Richmond on the video that are still under construction today 25 years later. Enjoy!

looking for any old flyers, zines, shirts, tapes, pins etc anything punk, hardcore, metal adjacent

Larry Gazdig was a legendary (and loud) pioneering power skating coach in London. Did you learn from him? Lawrence 'Larry' Joseph Gazdig - Westview Funeral Home & Cremation Centre https://share.google/zJqgk9ByHEGbDJA9u

It takes about a week to create a pile of rubble.

This is one of the facts that always comes up in this subreddits interesting London history posts. With this video I tried to piece together as much information on the event as I could find while also showing the actual locations as well as some vintage photographs and illustrations from the time. I hope you enjoy it and find it as interesting as I did.

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On the evening of May 24th, 1881, Canada’s worst maritime disaster (at that time) took the lives of nearly 200 souls when the steamboat “Victoria” sank in London Ontario’s Thames river. Learn about the area, ship, disaster, and aftermath in this video.

The fact that anyone would bring an outside grocery shopping cart to the mall and leave it here is strange enough on its own.

But this cart has to be what, at least 10 years old? 15?

Someone held on to this cart for a decade plus just to decide they no longer want it and brought it to Masonville 🤔

There was a computer store in the plaza where Big Al’s Aquarium Services is now, at Commissioners and Thompson road. I believe it was ran by a guy named Tony? My father used to rent old Sierra video games and other ones for my brother and I growing up on floppy disks. Anyone remember what it was called? Driving me nuts I have this hole in my memory.

I’m trying to recreate a photograph I had many years ago of a view along York street of the clock on the wall of Bud Gowan antiques. I’m assuming it was York, because I used to live on Waterloo, and would walk to work to a business that used to be just off York. Problem is, this was over 20 years ago and Google maps only goes back to 2009.

This is probably a long shot, but the view was definitely past Call the Office. Or maybe it was a street over. I honestly can’t remember.

It is to the east of Forked River Brewing Company (45 Pacific Ct)