Palace Pier Burned Down On This Day in 1963
As I mentioned to Rob Bowman today on Toronto Mike'd, it was on this day in 1963 that Palace Pier, one of Toronto's premier dance halls, burned down. I was tipped off to this fact by Jeremy Hopkin, who also colourized the photo above.
To commemorate this anniversary, I biked to the site of Palace Pier, just west of the Humber Bay bridge. There is now a plaque affixed to the remnants of an abutment from the original Palace Pier dance hall, located along the Waterfront Trail just west of the Humber River's mouth.
63 years ago today...