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BY Shawn Micallef   June 24, 2009 21:06

Last week, Heritage Toronto unveiled a new plaque in front of the Hazelton Hotel in Yorkville marking the former location of the Riverboat coffee house. Open from 1964 to 1978, its tiny basement stage saw early performances by Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Neil Young and others from today’s Q107 Psychedelic Psunday roster. There is very little left of hippy Yorkville now, but the plaque ceremony was a rare moment when the old Yorkville met the new, as musicians (including Lightfoot) and Riverboaters bumped into folks in suits, pointy shoes and tighter faces — as dramatic a human shift as the architectural one that happened here.

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