Winnipeg on Streetview

Bdog · #1 Posted **Dec 3, 2009, 5:06 PM**

Discuss any interesting, funny, or wierd things you guys have found while creeping the city google style....

For example, a long stretch of redwood avenue is actually just a backlane:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&sou...90.45,,0,18.19

chrisallard5454 · #2 Posted **Dec 3, 2009, 5:14 PM**

I have found the same thing on Pritchard!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sourc...bp=12,119,,0,5

Thanks rrskylar, though juvinille your input was helpful!

Just give the view a spin and you'll see what ghetto fabulous is all about!

rrskylar · #3 Posted **Dec 3, 2009, 5:56 PM**

^ It's a map of Winnipeg dumbass, try your links before you post them to see if they actually work!

Distill3d · #4 Posted **Dec 3, 2009, 5:59 PM**

I emailed the Google Street View picture of my sisters apartment building to her the other day, taking exceptional note to her messy balcony. Needless to say, she was not half as amused as I was.

dsim249 · #5 Posted **Dec 3, 2009, 11:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bdog

For example, a long stretch of redwood avenue is actually just a backlane:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&sou...90.45,,0,18.19

Ghetto fabulous

1ajs · #6 Posted **Dec 3, 2009, 11:18 PM**

u should see the back lane of austin st north between austin and main st now thats gehto..... every dumpster is burnt out garbge everywhere people dumping ilegaly all the time and my poor friend who suffers from from hording issues just had to clean his yard out o boy

and if go down austin st n u will wind up in the lane in 2 spots along it
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&sou...,0.038581&z=15

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&sou...,0.038581&z=15

UrbanPlannerr · #7 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 3:12 AM**

I like how they got some of the flood in there on hwy 75

1ajs · #8 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 3:21 AM**

http://www.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&ll...145.23,,0,3.86

rgalston · #9 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 3:51 AM**

Yeah, half of my sister's block on College Avenue shows up as back lane as well.

dsim249 · #10 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 4:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by chrisallard5454

I have found the same thing on Pritchard!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sourc...bp=12,119,,0,5

Thanks rrskylar, though juvinille your input was helpful!

Just give the view a spin and you'll see what ghetto fabulous is all about!

lol! Wow, that certainly does take the cake. Very Ghetto fab indeed! The burnt out Suzuki Samurai adds just the right touch.

Btw, saying back lane seems to be the norm in the Peg?? I don't think I've ever heard that in S'toon. It's always back alley.

1ajs · #11 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 4:20 AM**

who wants to bet its not there anymore? but dam thats run down around that spot why does our civilization allow for this kinda decay in our cities?

UrbanPlannerr · #12 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 5:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by dsim249

Btw, saying back lane seems to be the norm in the Peg?? I don't think I've ever heard that in S'toon. It's always back alley.

yup

Quote:

but dam thats run down around that spot why does our civilization allow for this kinda decay in our cities?

Because all for one and one for all ceases to exist as of today.

Biff · #13 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by chrisallard5454

I have found the same thing on Pritchard!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sourc...bp=12,119,,0,5

Thanks rrskylar, though juvinille your input was helpful!

Just give the view a spin and you'll see what ghetto fabulous is all about!

Looks like central anytown USA to me. Not so rare to have areas like these. I would be astonished if every city didn't have this almost exact same scene.

drew · #14 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 2:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by dsim249

Btw, saying back lane seems to be the norm in the Peg?? I don't think I've ever heard that in S'toon. It's always back alley.

I think it depends where you are referring to. I think "back lane" is used with residential areas.

I would still say "alley" or "back alley" when I am downtown, where the alleys are defined by vertical walls of buildings on either side.

On topic - my brother's house in River Heights is pictured from his back lane as well. I think that maybe Google Maps shit the bed.

BKB · #15 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 3:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

^ It's a map of Winnipeg dumbass, try your links before you post them to see if they actually work!

Wow are you ever an angry man. If you just waited a split second you would realize that the map of Winnipeg changes to the street view.

Andy6 · #16 Posted **Dec 4, 2009, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

I think it depends where you are referring to. I think "back lane" is used with residential areas.

I would still say "alley" or "back alley" when I am downtown, where the alleys are defined by vertical walls of buildings on either side.

On topic - my brother's house in River Heights is pictured from his back lane as well. I think that maybe Google Maps shit the bed.

Maybe they were influenced by "My Winnipeg".

You're right that "lane" -- never "alley" -- is used in Winnipeg for residential lanes lined with people's garages. I would tend to say either "laneway" or "alley" for the downtown version.

rrskylar · #17 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 2:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by BKB

Wow are you ever an angry man. If you just waited a split second you would realize that the map of Winnipeg changes to the street view.

Okay Einstein, obviously dumbass edited the link on his post to make it work after I set him straight.

Andy6 · #18 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 4:17 AM**

Checking out old family photos:

641 Clifton Street, 2009 Now a somewhat dodgy inner-city neighbourhood.

641 Clifton Street, 1908, my grandmother held by her father. Then a brand new house (built 1907) on the bald prairie on the fringes of town.

drew · #19 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 8:42 PM**

^ that is remarkable. You should knock on the door of that house and hand them a copy of that photo. Personally I would love it if someone who had any older pictures of my 1907 house to stop by. It's amazing what these houses looked like new.

That second floor covered porch that has since been filled in looks very cool.

Andy6 · #20 Posted **Dec 5, 2009, 11:11 PM**

The Free Press or Manitoba Historical Society should put out a call for people to let them scan or have old family photos like this (or negatives). I know that if my family didn't have me in it, these would have sat in a box and eventually been thrown away. There are a billion photos of Eaton's and the Legislature, but images of ordinary houses and suburban scenes are hard to come by.

I have a few others but usually the search ends in disappointment, such as in the case of my great grandfather's previous address (in 1905/6) of 290 Wardlaw Avenue (here pictured with one of my great aunts):

290 Wardlaw, 1906

Unfortunately the Midtown Bridge/Donald Street extension project in the 50s put an end to that entire neighbourhood:

290 Wardlaw, 2009

Interestingly, you can still see the line of mature trees running off to the right that would have stood along the sidewalk of the north side of Wardlaw. The house would have been across Wardlaw from there, probably about where that pile of dirt is on the south side of what is now Lagopoulos Way, a bit behind the parked pickup truck.