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 POTTERY ROAD HILL DESERVES A GAZZOLA  Slinger, a columnist for the Toronto Star, waxed eloquently
about "Gazzola" in a July 25, 1985 article. There was
something about the name that he liked:
"Gazzola is my favourite name in paving. It is my
favourite name in anything... I wish it were a verb, or at
least a noun. How's your gazzola doing? Let's gazzola that,
then we won't have to worry about it ever again.
It's got brawn. But it's not just some muscle-bound lug of
a word, it has character too.It kind of grabs you the way it wouldn't if you went to see the Sistine Chapel and you said Who did that ceiling? and they told you Alf Smith and Sons, Fresco Contractors. I'm sure they do excellent work... but it doesn't have the ring of Michelangelo. I think you want a Michelangelo to pave the Pottery Road hill. (And Pottery Road leads to Mortimer Avenue)... a magnificent street. Someday I intend to pen a proper paean to Mortimer Ave. Then you'll understand what it is about it that makes my heart go all 'gazzola'.   |
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