The Fifth Avenue Home

My mother grew up in a building on 233 5th Avenue in Cochrane, Ontario, a former bottling plant that was converted into apartments. You can see it in Google Street View, albeit from a distance:

The building is in the distance because the Google Street View coverage for Cochrane, inexplicably, does not include 5th Avenue:

Here’s a “look around” view from Apple Maps, which does cover 5th Avenue:

Here’s a photo, closer up, that my mother took on a trip to Cochrane in 2015:

I have many fond memories of visits to that house; strongest among them is the feeling of hiding under my step-grandmother’s fur coats in the upstairs apartment during games of hide and seek with my brothers.