Great TO pics. That first one... holy fuck, how much it has grown? That's... HUNDREDS... of towers difference.
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So I've been asked a few times if St. John's was always so colourful and I explained that the colours were just as varied but deeper and it all had an even more lower-class feel.
Found a pic on a friend's Facebook page... THIS is how it was, right up until the early 90s.
(the grey one of the left... that was VERY common. There's one house being restored now on Military Road to exactly that colour. It's the first grey one in the city in a generation. I LOVE it... it looks fancier today, though, because it's done properly).
The weird little squares in the sidewalks outside the homes... that was for the coal delivery men to shovel it into for heating.
Some of the homes still have them but only if they were set back farther from the sidewalk. When modern sidewalks were installed, those chutes were already obsolete so they were just covered over.