Very Old Things

Very old things can make you think. Consider the fact that very old things were crafted by hand several generations ago. Is this one reason for the appeal of old things?

Nowadays, most objects surrounding us are industrially manufactured. We may briefly consider their design, their colour, their material, but we don’t look at them as we would something that is very old, something that was made by hand.

We can almost imagine seeing the hardened hands that solidly assembled barrels years ago. We can picture the old fashioned paintbrush laying red paint on cart wheels last century. And, we can visualize how the parts of the early trucks were assembled using plenty of elbow grease and heavy wrenches decades upon decades ago.

These things were carefully crafted back then; the nailing, the sanding, the painting – all these tasks thoughtfully performed by hand. See… very old things can make you think.

Red cart wheel in the Case Goods Lane, Toronto

Barrels by the Case Goods Warehouse, Toronto

Old truck in the Case Goods Lane, Toronto

Interior of old truck in the Case Goods Lane, Toronto

Second view of barrels by the Case Goods Warehouse, Toronto

Close up of screws and metal work of a cart in the Case Goods Lane, Toronto