It’s another helping of random doors for today’s Thursday Doors.
I don’t even remember many of the buildings themselves … just their doors.
Another battered old door found in Port Perry, a 45 minute drive away.
This door was attached to a wonderful old building that originally served as the Town Hall, jail, and court house for the Port Perry area. It is now a theatre for the Performing Arts.
Lastly, I found this lovely pair of side-by-side doors while strolling through Yorkville last weekend in downtown Toronto. I really like the transom window on #62 and little faces on the decorative molding under the overhang.
Thursday Doors is a weekly photo feature hosted by the Head Door Man himself, Norm 2.0.
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I love photos of doors but I never think to take pictures of them. I love wood doors surrounded by stonework! My favorite, the side by side doors. I really like transoms, too!
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Fabulous doors. Love the bit about not remembering much about the buildings, just the doors. I so identify with that. Found your blog on Marsha Ingrao’s list. So pleased I did. 😊
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Marsha was so kind to include my blog on her list and I’m truly flattered that you have visited and perused so many of my posts!!
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love the variety, all are art!
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Thank you! That’s exactly what I think of them too … art!
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Great shots, Joanne! Those are not random doors; they are a well thought out, great collection that you knew would get the door crazies salivating!
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Thanks 🙂
I hadn’t thought of us as door crazies, but … yeah, it kind of fits 🙂
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Ooh, Joanne! I like your variety of doors in the presentation. The battered door and the 1873 town hall door were ones I liked to picture the history and people who had passed through them. The U of T door had a fantastic clear reflection in the pretty window. This door looks well preserved and attractive! 🙂
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Thanks Robin. It’s interesting to group together a number of these random doors and see which ones are liked the most. The old Town Hall is a clear favourite 🙂
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Great collection, Joanne. I loved the battered old Port Perry Town Hall door the most!
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Thank you 🙂
That old Town Hall seems to be the run-away favourite … and to think I almost excluded it!
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Another beautiful set of door photos Joanne!
I like them all, but particularly the side by side doors.
Peta
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Thanks Peta 🙂
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Terrific selection of doors this week Joanne. That Town Hall one is my fave and if I hadn’t known what the building was used for before I would have guessed some sort of performing arts center anyway so I think it has found it’s true vocation.
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Thanks Norm. I think so too … I hope it can continue to thrive.
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I like that second door. How cool would that be to walk through each day? Someone needs to rethink the one way use of it. 🙂
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Sometimes I think we don’t really appreciate the awesomeness of the things that surround us everyday.
At least that’s what I keep telling myself about not living in a castle 😉
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Nice selection of doors. ‘Head Doorman’ made me smile. I think that one might stick 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
… but I think Dan’s weekly intro is consistently the funniest 🙂
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The last photo reminds me of fraternal twins. 🙂
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True – sort of the same, but not 🙂
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Excellent selection! That second door is wonderful! I also really like the theater bldg.
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Thanks Deborah. I’m glad I finally found a reason to bring out the old Town Hall / theatre building. It was a shame to leave it languishing in my photo library 🙂
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It really was! 🙂 It’s a beauty.
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Another beautiful collection! The Port Perry Town Hall was also used in the 50’s through the 60’s by the H.W. Gossard Co., manufacturers of women’s undergarments. We lived in Port Perry at that time and my mom worked at Gossard making brassieres and girdles!
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Seriously?!!! What a cool piece of local history.
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It’s a great selection of doors! They all have something to love. 🙂 The window on that 1873 Town Hall is spectacular though.
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Thank you 🙂
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Lovely collection of doors, really like the town hall door. :>)
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Thank you so much for visiting! I really appreciate the comment 🙂
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You are welcome. :>)
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I love the battered doors. The boot scrapers are only good if they are used.
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Yes, sadly people seem to ignore the sad of their boots and shoes now.
In several of the health care places I go to – massage, chiro, etc – there are signs asking people to remove their boots or shoes in wet / snowy conditions. Inevitably there are people who don’t / won’t and you end up walking in stocking feet on soggy carpets
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I have not been anywhere public where I was asked to take my shoes off. I would hate soggy socks.
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hmmm – I wonder if it’s a quirk of a local few who I happen to know.
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More likely the fact that I don’t get out much.
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Great gallery, Joanne. I like them all.
janet
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Thanks Janet 🙂
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Doors tell so many stories, they are the very first thing we see when entering a home, I truly think they deserve the importance they are given. Great photos. Hope you are having some warmer weather?
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Thanks Susan – we were quite warm for about 2 weeks, but today we were back to winter with a -17C windchill. It was a cold wake up call after 14C temperatures yesterday!!
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Gorgeous!!
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Thanks 🙂
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You have a wonderful eye for capturing the most intriguing doors, Joanne. I love viewing your Thursday posts!
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Thank you! That’s very kind. There’s always the question in the back of my mind whether other people will find the same things interesting that I do 🙂
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Joanne gives good doors.
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LOL!!
Some people might read that and question what it’s a euphemism for 😉
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well…as if that was my intention!!!
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Yeah, that’s what I thought … not you … 😉
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Some scrumptious doors her Jo. Lovely shapes and that Port Perry building is gorgeous!
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Port Perry is such a pretty little town. I wonder why it’s taken me so long to discover it!!
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So much to discover on one’s doorstep Jo, and good to not have to travel too far to see it.
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Sadly, it took me so long to get to this conclusion. Now I’m trying to make up time.
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Great doors, Joanne. I love big old wooden doors. I like the transom on #62 too, especially with the tilt. 🙂
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I know!! The numbering is just unique enough to make it interesting 🙂
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Good collection of doors, Joanne. Which came first . . . you shooting doors on outings or you joining the Thursday door challenge?
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Good question. I’ve been noticing doors for a very long time, but I’ve had a camera only for a few years. I started participating in Thursday Doors when I realized I had photos to share.
Now I’m a run-away train 😉
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Some pretty fabulous Toronto (and area) doors!
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So many doors!! 🙂
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I love these.
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Thanks 🙂
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A magnificent selection of doors, Joanne. I especially like the unknown building door (second photo). You sure get around. 😀 🙂
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That I do, Tess 🙂
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What beautiful doors! I especially love the one from the University of Toronto. The stone work around it is stunning.
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Walking around the U of T grounds is so beautiful. When I was a teenager I didn’t want to go to school in Toronto and choose a much smaller school in a much smaller city. Now I wish I had gone here instead.
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I always look forward to Thursdays, knowing there will be a post from you with more interesting doors.
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Awww – thanks 🙂
It’s really become quite the addiction!
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That is a beautiful selection. I’m wowed by the Town Hall 1873. Wowed. 🙂
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Isn’t it a lovely building? I think it is a perfect venue for a performing arts theatre …. much better than a jail 🙂
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I like the wooden doors, even the ones that need some TLC. It seems odd that the two doors on the bottom are so different. I really like the one on the right.
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They are different, but they are also so similar at the same time. They really appealed to me 🙂
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Sorry, Joanne, I couldn’t help but imagine someone lost in Toronto approaching you for directions, and being sent across town, not with ‘left at the lights and right at the library’ but stop at the lights look to your left and there’s a beautiful old Italian door. Well the ornate brass handles are…no come back, I haven’t told you about the delightful decorative carvings of the library’s inner hallway door yet…’ Which is a reflection of how much I enjoy your door posts 🙂
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Yeah – don’t laugh! I do tend to think of directions based on landmarks 😉
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I only laugh with you, Joanne and you always provide a smile with your wonderful posts 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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WOW these are some spectacular doors Joanne 😀 In the first image I believe those are door stops but can also be used for boot scrapers. I love all the detail you achieved in these images, great work.
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Thanks Joe! High praise coming from you 🙂
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Very nice, I especially like the one from the University.
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The university could be a study of its own!! Thanks 🙂
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