Find what you think might be the ugliest location of the following chains in Canada and post it on here:
1. Tim Hortons
2. Canadian Tire
3. Walmart
I will be the judge. If this works out well then maybe I'll try some more. And by "ugliest" I am looking for locations that are unattractive, boring, ridiculous, tacky, depressing and well..... overall ugly.
I may have all of you beat. Macleod Trail across the street from a car dealership. Not sure if this Tim's Drive thru only design exists anywhere else or not. In a sick way I kind of like it for it's uniqueness.
I may have all of you beat. Macleod Trail across the street from a car dealership. Not sure if this Tim's Drive thru only design exists anywhere else or not. In a sick way I kind of like it for it's uniqueness.
P-p-p-p-p-please don't kill me, but the one on King isn't actually that bad. It seems at least to be an attempt at a storefront integration into the built environment.
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This view kind of sums up this area perfectly: Drive thru Tim's, shitty hotel, shitty night club, bottle picker, traffic whizzing by 2 feet from pedestrians.
The ugliest Tim's in St. John's is mainly because of location. It's a normal suburban drive-through but in the core.
Some of the Tim's out in our Soviet hellscape suburbia are clapboard and actually kind of nice.
The Walmarts and Canadian Tires are all the same - suburban big box areas, excluding a couple of little ones in 1970s areas of the city, but they look normal as well. The most offensive is Stavanger Drive. It's just the most soul-sucking place in the city to go for anything. I make a conscious effort to try to find comparable businesses if the one I want is in Stavanger.
I think our only unusually ugly chain is the Shoppers on Empire with the methadone clinic. It looks like it was build with scrap wood from the trailer park that used to be there.
__________________ Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Peek-A-Boo! I see you!! Framed by overhead powerlines and a Tims no less!
P.S. I love that green heritage building fronting the street next to the bus stop but I can't get over how narrow it is.
That strip is all new. There were buildings there before but the originals (generally with simpler architecture) were destroyed. This whole area burned down in the 90s, the Harvey Road Fire. It's what allowed a lot of the newer things there.
__________________ Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
That strip is all new. There were buildings there before but the originals (generally with simpler architecture) were destroyed. This whole area burned down in the 90s, the Harvey Road Fire. It's what allowed a lot of the newer things there.
Wow. I find that bizarre that such a tiny floorplate would be built today.
I think the winner is the 3rd pic that SHH posted. Those clapboard, Soviet boxes in dandelion fields are so depressing. And that shot was taken on a sunny summer day. Imagine how it looks in the dead of winter.
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