Yonge Street Lights up


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This night video we took on January 19,2007 is of the new lights on the Arcade Building (137 Yonge Street), located on the east side of Yonge Street where Temeperance Street ends.

The lights were ironically added around December 2006, during the
Cavalcade of Lights, a holiday tradition that dates back 40 years.

The long vertical bars of lights, change colours and patterns, lighting and livening up what once was a dark and quiet section of Yonge Street.

The addition of lights on the Arcade building is quite dramatic for Toronto. It's something that really has not been seen in the city: large displays of light serving only as a function of loud, peacocking decoration.

Some see it as a waste of energy and some see it as "tacky", and some see it as the next step for the growth of Yonge Street, and downtown Toronto.

The illumination of Yonge Street as a tunnel of light which turns night to day, began some time ago, as bright LCD screens, side building flood lights and back and front lit advertising banners, started to appear one by one along Yonge Street from Gerrard to Adelaide.

The upcoming arrival of Metropolis, Toronto's version on Times Square, aims to be the beacon of all lights, for the Yonge Street strip.