The Pub With No Beer
Artist
John Kuna
Title
The Pub With No Beer
Year
2009
Where to Find It
About
Today this building is home to the Fox and Fiddle Precinct, a local pub with a great variety of beer on tap. However, beer was not always available or legal in the Village of Islington. The mural shows a pop truck rounding up empties in front of the Islington House, a local watering hole, which operated as an ice cream parlour and could only sell soda pop as a beverage during prohibition. At the time Burnhamthorpe Road was on the west side of the hotel and the hotel’s drive-shed stretched across what is now the intersection of Dundas W., Burnhamthorpe Road and Cordova Avenue.