The history behind a curious abandoned shack in a Toronto strip mall parking lot Toronto
in a car-fuelled postwar boom of subdivisions, highways, and shopping plazas.
Constructed in 1959, the plaza opened amid an onslaught of similar suburban shopping clusters built to serve the city's outward expansion, and it remains a staple of the Bathurst and Sheppard community over a half-century later. This former Fotomat drive-thru was installed in the years after Sheppard Plaza was built in 1959. Photo by Fareen Karim.
This Fotomat kiosk in Massachusetts, photographed in 1987, offers an idea of how the Sheppard Plaza location looked in its better days. Photo viaThe California-based chain proliferated in mall and plaza parking lots across the continent, including a location at Sheppard Plaza housed in the now-forlorn-looking booth.
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