Check the display furniture at Nordstrom in Yorkdale Mall! January 30, 2022

 Went to Yorkdale mall yesterday...to get out of my home in this bleak January weather, to see people...even if they are random strangers!...to check out new goods in stores...windowshop...try a new food in a new cafe...

Loved my winter-stroll in the Yorkdale mall. Enjoyed people-watching especially people who dressed in flamboyant clothes and hairstyles.  Enjoyed the sparing decor for the upcoming Chinese New year and the 'presence of tigers' in various store-ads and in the mall itself. 

What I really liked was the cool display furniture at Nordstrom...Some of the display furniture had an industrial look....some were actual parts from old factories... This Nordstrom was way way way better than the one at Yonge and Bloor, which I had visited a few months ago....in terms of quantity and quality of stocks on display. I cannot imagine how the one in the heart of downtown Toronto was so poor in comparison to the one in Yorkdale mall. 

Enjoyed a couple of donuts at a new shop called donut hive in the mall (I had shredded-coconut-covered donut filled with a white gooey, mildly sweet mix and  matcha kitkat).

Below are a few photos.

Below are a few tigers (as it's the Chinese year of the tiger..2022) in the ads of some stores.

Above...one can see tiger stripes on black jacket of this mannikin.

Below ...random photos I took  as I liked these things!

The mannikins above were over 7 feet tall I think...They are new to me and they were pretty cool!

A  stroll in the mall  in bleak winter time is a relatively cheap mood elevator without the side effects of other mood elevating items such as !@#$%^&*()_+!

Mc Millan and Wife : comedy-cop crime show from 1970s Loving it!

 As I mentioned before in an earlier blog, I am enjoying old shows from 1960s and 70s as they seem to suit my mood...I am intensely disliking or not attracted to at all to the new shows which are too violent, people too evil or unpalatable.

After finishing the Father Dowling series and The Saint (Roger Moore as the saint!), I have now discovered the McMillan and Wife series. I am enjoying it a lot and it's a great way to spend an hour in the evening.

This covid and the innumerable listless hours stuck at home, stuck in Toronto for over 2 years has done a number on my life, time and mood. These old shows have been my salvation through these last two loooong years. 

I wish today's life and today's shows had the decency, innocence, cleanness, gentleness, chivalry, honor and sweetness of life in the 60s and 70s. Can we ever go back to that pattern of living? Can societies regain the  lost innocence and sweetness of the 60s and 70s era?

The dishonorable, thieving, ruthless politicians and bureaucrats all over the world, the modern technology of computers and cellphones, unstoppable progress of science, the modern social media, the shrinking of the world, increase in population, the crossing of cultures and so many dynamic changes have essentially wiped out the beauty and charm of the past. 

I pray that I continue to find more shows after I finish the episodes of McMillan and Wife to keep my spirits up in these grey-gloomy-wintry-Omicron-January days of 2022!

Art (Village Motel) in another park in Montreal. December 2021

  I enjoyed this mini outdoor display of photos of a model and the impression of what motels across ?USA or north America looked like  a few decades ago

For this art work (photos mostly) to withstand the snow, rain, UV and sunshine...I truly appreciate the quality of the materials as much as I admire the photographer and artist who conceptualized these ideas!

Above: corn teeth! This is the only photo's whose title I can recall now, as I upload the pics to this blog

Above: I love this!