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great photos, thanks...
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What a great thread. Awesome compilation.
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Those pictures are nice but depressing in a way.
Because even in our cities that have maintained vibrant downtowns, they still are not as vibrant as back then when they were even smaller centres. Like Peterborough for example. It is a shame. |
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You can tell that cities were more family oriented back then. I guess that died when everyone ran away to the 'burbs. Great thread! |
Smalll bit of nitpicking on my part: The pic that you labelled 'First Ave' in Calgary is actually 1st Street
Other than that, very nice job! These pictures are much larger than you can find in the online Glenbow Archives here. |
Thanks! That is an incredible collection. Those shots of Montreal, Winnipeg, and many, many other places show an impressive vibrancy.
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Nice collection.
Interesting to see the Brantford photo with streetcars and everything after having explored its now decrepit downtown a couple weeks ago. What a contrast. |
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Thanks for a great reminder of the days when cities were about living, not about bylaws to improve the flow of traffic. What happened? Where did all go wrong? |
i really like the ottawa 1950 pic with all the spires rising above town
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Great thread! I love seeing old photos like these.
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Thanks for posting!
Weird seeing Halifax from that angle without the bridges. Also, it's kind of funny that spots in that pic that weren't developed then still aren't today. |
Nice find! Brantford looked good in those days.
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52. Oshawa ON, 1950 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN002470.jpg 53. Place d'Armes Sq., Montreal, c.1925 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN003256.jpg 54. Windsor, with Detroit looming in the distance, 1941 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN002488.jpg 55. Douglas St., Victoria, c.1940 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN004947.jpg 56. Moncton New Brunswick, c.1945 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN004860.jpg 57. Bay St., Toronto c.1955 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN002875.jpg 58. Vancouver, c.1957 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN005983.jpg 59. Edmonton, c.1950 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN005481.jpg |
Nice collection, keep 'em coming if you find more. Thanks for including my hometown too. ;) That's the corner of Charlotte St and Prince St in that picture of Sydney, looking north down Charlotte St. It looks mostly the same today.
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Awesome! I've never seen that particular North Bay pic before. If I may, I'd like to submit another pic of North Bay from the 50's (i think) thats shows the Main Street.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...e_circa_19.jpg |
Pictures like these make me cry.
It's a kind of intellectual parlor game to consider a civilization's high point, or a variant thereof, the decade when a city was at its peak - Paris in the 20s, Vienna in the 1890s, Los Angeles in the 30s, New York in the 50s, etc. But to see such heartbreaking beauty makes me realize the terrible toll prosperity and modernism took on our cities. Canada always seemed to me the most civilized country in North America, but even here you see how foolish and wasteful we've been with our most sublime creations: cities. |
60. Montcalm House, where the famous general died after the battle on the Plains of Abraham, c.1940
http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN003089.jpg 61. Barbershop in The Pas, MB, 1944 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN005291.jpg 62. Station at Victoria Beach MB, summertime playground for Winnipeg's WASP citizenry, 1948 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN000723.jpg 63. Union Station, Winnipeg, 1943 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN000746.jpg 64. Toronto, 1942 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN004095.jpg 65. Old City Hall, Toronto, c.1955 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN005883.jpg 66. St. Sacrement Street, Montreal, 1946 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN004345.jpg 67. Eighth Ave., Calgary, c.1930 http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN002959.jpg 68. Douglas St., Victoria, c.1945--apperently still very much a city for retireees... http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN004947.jpg 69. ...Ah, there's some people under 60. Douglas St. again http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/_imag...l/CN004935.jpg |
beautiful. i used to dwell on the past and the bad choices that our cities made; now i'm in complete acceptance. it's less depressing that way. :tup:
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Nice pictures, thanks for sharing.
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