Here are the sightings for October. Around the same time as the federal elections I went to Toronto and I saw a lot of cool fans. I of course went to the famous Old Spaghetti Factory that I mentioned before that has some of the coolest ceiling fan installations I've seen on the forum. The pictures are placed in chronological order.
A local pub that's been around for at least 30 years has two of these nice early 1990's Nadair Venus, the 127 cm version with the shorter brackets and one newer late 1990's to late 2000's Nadair Designer's Choice 132 cm. I'm not sure if the newer Nadair is a replacement of an older Nadair Venus but if it is at least it's cool that they choosed another Nadair.
No. 1: Nadair Venus 127 cm
No. 2: Nadair Venus 127 cm, this one has it's brackets bent down. These shorter brackets look cool but unfortunately often end up sagging easily.
The newer Nadair Designer's Choice 132 cm
Now I think I can say I covered all the fans at my local Rona, the one with the unknown Indian fans and the small recently installed Canarm CP36. Around 2003-2004 about ten years before the greenhouse as added, the store was enlarged to the west and they added two Canarm CP56. For the past five years or so, most of the fans in the general section of the store have been kept off except these two Canarms that are always on high and one of the Indian fans works with them. One of the two Canarm have a ent blade. Using the flash I could finally see in what way the blade was bent. It's in much worse condition than I though but seeing how the fan probably does only 100 rpms, it's understandable because the other one in good condition does about 200. It must have been hit hard because the blades on these are not easy to bent at all.
Moving along to the pictures taken in Toronto, Ontario.
At the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant in downtown Toronto they are exactly
22 ceiling fans in the whole restaurant. Yes, 22! The place was open around 1971 and some of the fans are almost as old as the opening. There is an interesting mixture of fans from the 1970's to the 2000's mixed together. I wish more restaurants like this still existed. It kept it's vintage warm decors with brass fixtures and tiffany light fixtures.
They are five 1970's antique copper Casablanca Victorian but they are not exactly all alike. This was the one closest to where I was sitting. Notice the 1920's glassware. Most of them looked like this with small canopy, spiral pole and arch end blades. I would imagine this configuration was available around 1977. We can see that they still have their yellow tassels.
Two more further away in the restaurant. I thought the pictures would have came out very dark so I let more light into the camera and finally it was bright enough and the pictures came out as overexposed around the lights.
This one was significantly different and older than the other ones. Mid 1970's? It has flat and plain canopy and it seems to be gear driven. It has a central hub where the blades attaches to. The brackets are very small and ornate and the blades narrower.
In a corner there is this early to mid 1980's polished brass Casablanca Four Seasons 96 cm with stencil blades and Slumber Quiet variable speed. This is my favorite fan in the whole place. It's very cute!
Throughout the restaurant, they are also metal blade fans which two of them are mounted above the Fanimation Bourbon Street. They are six of these 1970's Banvil Orange Line painted in light brown. A separate room for private parties has it's own Canarm CP56 painted in an ardoise/slate colour to match the ceiling in that room.
I believe this one is one that is mounted above the Fanimations. The other fan mounted above the Fanimations is a brown painted Banvil Bronze Line.
More in the center of the restaurant is a whole row of five polished brass Fanimation Bourbon Street. It's obviously an older version with classic blades and brackets. One is installed with four blades instead of five and the blades were installed incorrectly for the four blade pattern so the blades are crooked and it has a white C bracket that comes from another fan. The choice of light shades is little funny. We can see one of the Banvil Orange Line in between the Fanimations.
This is the one that has four blades installed incorretly with a wrong bracket. The tip of the metal blade we see on the right is of the brown painted Banvil Bronze Line.
A section of the restaurant that has newer fans from the 2000's and a lower ceiling has three of these beautiful glossy brown Canarm CP56 and one Hampton Bay Moresby tiffany fan.
The Hampton Bay. It looks very good in there with all the other tiffany lights and stain glass.
Even the lobby that is very small has not one but two fans. Two matte black painted Canarm CP36.
My hotel was in a 19th century house that has been enlarged. My room was in the newer portion and has this very cute white & PB Monte Carlo Designer Supreme 112 cm. They are very uncommon in this finish. They were not made for a very long time in white & PB and PB. Probably only at the beginning of the 2000's. Normally I don't like Monte Carlos but this model in this size and finish looks very good. It's a very powerful fan.
A pub on Bloor Street West that kept it's beautiful 1980's decor with carpet, brass fixtures and swag floral light fixtures has five early 1990's Nadair Saturn that were redesigned with black and burgundy colors and stencil motifs on the blades. Four of them are installed in a section of the pub where the ceiling is high. One was on low, another on high and two other off. As you can see one is missing it's canopy.
Further away in the pub was this 1982-1985 antique brass 4 Saisons
XXe Siècle 132 cm with nice cane blades. This canopy is unique to this model. I don't know if it's really called like this but it's similar to the Casablanca model. This one was on low.
Upstairs, a section of the pub that is open only at specific moments are two more of these 4 Saisons. It was closed so the fans were off. These have four blades. It was the first time I see this model with four blades. It's possible that they are 4/5 installable. It's one of those rare cases where the fan looks better with lights than without.
A moroccan restaurant has about five of these rust finish Fanimation Islander spinning slowly. They were also Fanimations Havana above the bar.
The pub that was in my hotel has about three or four Monte Carlo Designer Supreme 132 cm in antique brass with classic tulip lights.
Another one.
At Scotland Yard Pub, a beautiful pub right next to the Old Spaghetti Factory, has more of the same types of fans found in its neighbor. The decor was also very nice, warm and ancient in this pub too. Check out the ceiling! It has two 1970's antique copper Casablanca Victorians, the earliest version with stack motor it seems as there is no hub but small ornate brackets and flats canopies. Right in the middle is a black painted Canarm CP36 spinning at a sorte of medium speed.
A closeup of one of the Casablanca.
The restaurant has six 90 cm metal bladed fans spinning on medium. They are all Canarms CP36 except one that was a much older 1970's brown SMC K36. Normally I don't like when a picture comes out like this with the blade hiding the canopies but this one have it's upper canopy missing so we are not missing much.
On Church street, in the Village, at a bar below a clothing store is this cool Kendal Orbit 132 cm. It was spinning very slowly.
At a pharmacy in downtown, are these two rare mid 1980's Nadair Industrials 90 cm. These are pretty rare in this size. One was spinning and this one was off. Notice how the line around the motor is really yellow and not gold.
The huge Canadian Tire at the corner of Bay Street and Dundas West has many Banvil Gold Lines. It also has one of the largest fan display I saw in a long time in a Canadian Tire. All the fans were on. Notice the odd type of ceiling. Most of them were on high except one or two.
That's it for Toronto. It was an awesome trip. I might be back next spring. How said that big cities has only newer fans.
Back in Québec. A show I went to for collectors of police gear, patches and badges was held in a community center in Longueuil that have two 1980's Golden Fans 140 cm.
The large bus terminus in Longueuil next to the metro station has a long narrow hallway with a dome shaped ceiling with many Banvil Bronze Lines and one is a Canarm CP56. All the fans were spinning.
Enjoy and comment. Let me know what else you would like to see next time I go to Toronto. Next time I will try to get the old Hunter Original near the Honest Ed's store. Unfortunately all the Casablancas Utopians at Casa Loma were removed.