Liberty Center

In the late 80's the Liberty Center aka the Liberty Art Center located at Liberty and Mowatt in Toronto's west end Parkdale area was a place where the transformation of a warehouse to artist studios was developing. The Liberty Center building was built in the early 1900's, it's massive brick structure and architecture remains standing today.

During this period, the Building was purchase by the late Rudolf Gunther, a German imigrant who came to Canada with a Banana and a handful of chainge. Soon after his arrival in Canada, Mr. Gunther started a small leather retail business. He invented the *Trucker Wallet *, the wallet that is linked to pants with a chain. This little invention expanded Mr. Gunther's little leather business to a multi leather store chain and factory, then called Royal Leather, best knowed today as Danier Leather.

Back to the Liberty Center topic. When Mr. Gunther sold his Leather Business, he started investing in real estate Properties, the Liberty Center was one of them. The idea with this property was to take an old warehouse, renovate it, and transform it into Artist Studio Condos. Well, the idea was great but due to the slow general area development the building was being renovated by it's tenants, the artistist for the most part.

Who were the tenants ? they were artists, designers, musicians and others that were simply looking for a change. Below are some Old Liberty Center Tenants:

Christopher Cutts
Blake Ward
Etric Lyons *Kush*
Dale Morningstar
Jon Michaelson
Dee *Detroit Bunker*
Beam 103 recording studio
Liberty Street Theater (Marcus)
Steddy Logan

We are trying to bring back to life the times at the Liberty Center (Liberty/Mowatt) building/warehouse monday night jams that were held at the Beam 103 recording studio in the building. But now we would like to make it so that you bring your axe, drum sticks etc. along with a new thing... a t-shirt to print on. Yes, the idea is to make your own t-shirt as you sit out on the jam. The new location is at the Spot. 2009 Monday Night Jam & Crafts at the Spot
Spot98 - for those about to craft