Tag: <span>Coffee Shop</span>

Coffee Shop
Coffee Shop, Carlton Street, Toronto, 1980 – © Avard Woolaver

It was my friend Bill Knetsch who introduced me to the wonders of coffee in the fall of 1980. Before that I had been a tea drinker, but there was something about relaxing with a coffee and doughnut, that couldn’t be beat. After a marathon printing session in the Ryerson darkrooms, Bill and I would hit up a local coffee shop such as the Donut Castle on Church Street. At 1:00 am the place would be crawling with all manner of characters–cab drivers, cops, prostitutes, night owls, students, partiers, etc. But is was the lure of coffee that brought us together!

According to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, good coffee is: “Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

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