St Patrick's Market/A. Stork and Sons/Then and Now

St Patrick's Market, built in 1854 stood here until 1912 when it was
replaced by the building below.

Here's a couple of photos (again from the 80's) of A.Stork and Sons

Fresh Killed Poultry on Queen West.
To the left is the Beverly Tavern and to the right
an empty lot where the Christmas tree lot
from "A Christmas Story" was filmed in 1982.
On several occasions I remember hanging out back of
the Bev late at night and watching the police round
up stray chickens that had escaped the slaughter.
Sometime in the mid 1980's.
As seen in the movie. The empty lot has since been filled in.

Sometime in the early 1980's, Photo by P. Cummins.
A somewhat current view.
The building has since been re-purposed as the Queen Street Market but remains mostly vacant.