Historical Winnipeg discussion - Page 84

esquire · #**1661** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by BigG

Here are pictures of the side of the Codville Warehouse from the U of M Winnipeg Building Index.

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/Winnipeg...rge/CBS-51.jpg

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/Winnipeg...rge/CBS-53.jpg

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/Winnipeg...rge/CBS-70.jpg

Thanks for digging up those links!

BigG · #**1662** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 6:54 PM**

^My pleasure.

Only The Lonely.. · #**1663** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 11:00 PM**

This was making the rounds on my Facebook feed yesterday.

http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/11...peg-1800s.html

Some really nice old picts of Winnipeg circa 1870 - 1890s.

BigG · #**1664** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 1:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

This was making the rounds on my Facebook feed yesterday.

http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/11...peg-1800s.html

Some really nice old picts of Winnipeg circa 1870 - 1890s.

Thanks. Those were awesome photos. Winnipeg really boomed in those two decades.

Urban recluse · #**1665** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 6:01 PM**

One of my favorite images of past times, and a fitting play on words, the Times Building:

Also:

Riverman · #**1666** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 6:14 PM**

^ 1948.

Urban recluse · #**1667** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 6:28 PM**

Notice the entrance to the Sterling Building?

esquire · #**1668** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 7:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

Notice the entrance to the Sterling Building?

Yeah, wow... that was the first thing that caught my eye. What happened?

rkspec · #**1669** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 7:06 PM**

something i did not know:
From the 1930s to the 1950s the Blue Bombers played at the Osborne Stadium located west of the Legislature Building where the Great West Life building now sits.

drew · #**1670** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 7:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Yeah, wow... that was the first thing that caught my eye. What happened?

Looks like the 1950s...

Urban recluse · #**1671** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 7:36 PM**

A travesty to think the owners had to "modernize" it.

drew · #**1672** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

A travesty to think the owners had to "modernize" it.

There are many houses in Wolseley that suffered a similar fate in the 50's.

They are easy to spot with the wrought iron railings, and other exterior trim that was installed after the original Victorian decorative elements (pillars, porches, etc.) were stripped away. They look horribly out of place, and actually you could argue are worth less than a comparably intact house.

The same could be said for the Sterling Building. If it remained as it was in this picture, it would have a much statelier presence on Portage. As it is now, it's entirely forgettable.

Urban recluse · #**1673** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 8:43 PM**

Agreed. The Canada Building on Donald is another good example, the Stovel Block, etc

esquire · #**1674** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 8:59 PM**

Ugh... downright criminal:

Source: archiseek.com

Riverman · #**1675** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 9:26 PM**

That building is still there isn't it?

Edit: Yes it is still there and fully renovated inside.

Urban recluse · #**1676** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 10:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Ugh... downright criminal:

Source: archiseek.com

Indeed.

BubberMiley · #**1677** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 1:58 AM**

Cool tourism video.
City of Rivers (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buGJzUNjJmk

Andy6 · #**1678** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 2:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by rkspec

something i did not know:
From the 1930s to the 1950s the Blue Bombers played at the Osborne Stadium located west of the Legislature Building where the Great West Life building now sits.

That end zone was my grandma's back yard when she was growing up. I have family photos with the legislature in the background from almost the same angle. Their house was torn down to build the stadium in the early 1930s. It got to be so noisy that after a couple of years they ended up demolishing her entire street (Whitehall Avenue), except for a couple of buildings at either end, including that solitary house at the corner of Balmoral that is still there.

Andy6 · #**1679** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 2:48 AM**

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Winnipeg, looking northwest by wintorbos, on Flickr[/IMG]

I don't remember if I posted this before, but this is one from my personal collection. It's a very scarce view from 1893 looking northwest from Main Street across Portage. I added some labels back in 2010.

All that would remain in this photo would be the tower of First Baptist Church, which the Calvary Temple retained when they demolished the rest of the church and the Peck Building, which is the building under construction in the centre of the image, just to the right of the Grace Church, which is what stood on the empty triangular parking lot until the mid-1950s. Also, at the time I labelled this, I noted the house that stood on Albert Street next to the Royal Albert -- which was then still standing, of course, but burned down shortly afterward. I'm not so sure about the two warehouse/commercial buildings that seem to be farther up Princess Street from the Peck (one of which has a Carscaden & Peck sign on the roof) ... maybe someone can identify those.

I made this from a section of a glass magic lantern slide. Good views from the early 1890s are extremely hard to find. In this case the magic lantern slide acts as a bit of a time capsule for a photograph that would likely otherwise have deteriorated (or been tossed away -- it's harder to throw out glass slides).

TimeFadesAway · #**1680** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 3:16 PM**

Andy, the corner that you are referencing is the corner of Princess and McDermot. The southernmost building (labelled Carscaden and Peck) is the former Oddfellow's Hall at 72 Princess. The other building is the Earn building on the northwest corner of the intersection.