Saturday, January 15, 2011

This building on Main Street in North Bay was built in 1927 by N. Calanis - not old by some city standards, but fairly old for North Bay. The street level portion of the building is home to the Delmar Restaurant.

The Delmar Restaurant is an old diner style restaurant that has served the downtown of North Bay for a very long time. Currently it is not always open, but I have seen it open for breakfast and lunch recently. The over the sidewalk sign is one of the few remaining ones in North Bay as some "wise" decision makers decided overhanging signs were dangerous to pedestrians. That really is too bad because the signs do lend a nice visual element to the downtown core which has suffered greatly since the opening of malls and Walmart.

2 comments:

Urban Cowboy said...

If licensed, will have to check it out on a bike tour next summer....

Krys and Paul said...

So Canadian - a restaurant that is only open when they feel like it. Though sometime I'll tell you a story of a French one with similar tendencies...

Nice photo - love the blue and green