Ottawa: Then and Now - Page 10

J.OT13 · #**181** Posted **Jul 26, 2014, 4:37 PM**

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Ottawa Postcard, circa 1970?, showing Place de Ville under construction.

https://www.facebook.com/LostOttawa/...type=3&theater

Nice one. It would be around 66/67.

Kitchissippi · #**182** Posted **Jul 26, 2014, 5:42 PM**

PdV Tower B looks to be under construction, and I think that opened in 1968. No Portage Bridge (1973), but it looks like they're working on the Wellington/Parkway link. I've forgotten how there used to be an overpass at Booth where the War Museum now stands.

rocketphish · #**183** Posted **Jul 26, 2014, 6:23 PM**

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I've forgotten how there used to be an overpass at Booth where the War Museum now stands.

Oh yes, that raised section of the Parkway along the edge of Lebreton Flats was a particularly effective barrier, at the time, for keeping most people away from the river. Just like the rest of the NCC Parkway system continues to be today.

drawarc · #**184** Posted **Aug 15, 2014, 2:02 AM**

Ottawa, mid 60s:

Source: https://www.facebook.com/34781916535...type=1&theater

Trans Canada · #**185** Posted **Sep 13, 2014, 8:04 PM**

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Ottawa's Byward Market

Built for Freiman's (now Hudson Bay) in the 50s, it featured a pedestrian tunnel between the department store and parking garage. When the Bay sold the garage, the tunnel was seemingly shut down.

http://architectureottawa.com/Midcentury%20Modern.html

"From the 1967 Ottawa map (folded), an ad for Friemans"
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...8732492&type=1

I wonder if the tunnel is still there...

movebyleap · #**186** Posted **Sep 13, 2014, 11:50 PM**

Yes! the tunnel is there! I've used it many times!!

J.OT13 · #**187** Posted **Sep 14, 2014, 1:25 PM**

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Yes! the tunnel is there! I've used it many times!!

Is it still open to the public? If so, where is it, how do we access it?

drawarc · #**188** Posted **Sep 16, 2014, 8:59 PM**

Another interesting thing, the downtown Freimans also had a grocery store, a Steinberg's.

Here's some of the former Ottawa locations:

Source:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

J.OT13 · #**189** Posted **Sep 16, 2014, 9:15 PM**

Never knew Steinberg's was owned by Freiman's.

drawarc · #**190** Posted **Sep 16, 2014, 9:40 PM**

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Never knew Steinberg's was owned by Freiman's.

Actually they weren't. But they had a location inside the Freiman's store.
Here's an old ad:

Steinberg's, rue Rideau (A.J.Freimans) Ottawa, Ont. Décembre 1947 by GrocerymaniaSam, on Flickr

Photo history of everything Steinberg's:https://www.flickr.com/photos/grocerymaniasam/sets/

Ottawa and Gatineau locations:https://www.flickr.com/photos/grocer...7633720452412/

Ottawa/Gatineau locations of Miracle Mart:

Miracle Mart Meadowlands Mall Ottawa Septembre 1968 by GrocerymaniaSam, on Flickr

Steinberg and Miracle Mart, Fairlawns Plaza, Ottawa Ont.1964 by Vintage Canadian Supermarkets and Discount Stores, on Flickr

Miracle Mart Galeries de Hull Gatineau Mars 1973 by GrocerymaniaSam, on Flickr

DEWLine · #**191** Posted **Sep 17, 2014, 6:25 PM**

Do we know what Tunney's Pasture used to look like before the federal campus was started up there?

TransitZilla · #**192** Posted **Sep 17, 2014, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by drawarc

Another interesting thing, the downtown Freimans also had a grocery store, a Steinberg's.

Here's some of the former Ottawa locations:

Source:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

The current YIG in Hazeldean Mall in Kanata was once a Steinberg as well; I remember it from the early 80s.

J.OT13 · #**193** Posted **Sep 17, 2014, 6:36 PM**

Looking for pics of Tunney's pre Federal Complex and found this; Bayview pre-expropriation. Had no idea the shoreline was altered that much.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&...11065108446351

Anyway, could not find anything n Tunney's, but I imagine it looked a lot like the anything 30 minutes outside of downtown Ottawa today.

drawarc · #**194** Posted **Oct 4, 2014, 10:54 PM**

Carlingwood Mall:

Carlingwood Shopping Center, Ottawa 1959-60 by danyduchesne95, on Flickr

Urbanarchit · #**195** Posted **Oct 5, 2014, 4:29 AM**

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Carlingwood Mall:

Carlingwood Shopping Center, Ottawa 1959-60 by danyduchesne95, on Flickr

Look at all that free parking!

S-Man · #**196** Posted **Oct 5, 2014, 4:42 AM**

Did they not think to paint lines on that parking lot? Seems like a bit of a free-for-all!

Lugnut · #**197** Posted **Oct 5, 2014, 12:05 PM**

Looks like there are lines there, the people just choose not to park in them.

lrt's friend · #**198** Posted **Oct 5, 2014, 6:43 PM**

I think the lines are angled with each row angled the opposite way. You can see everybody is parking consistently in each row. I think this is a reflection of the large size of cars of the day and the lack of power steering. Angled parking made it a little easier to park.

Norman Bates · #**199** Posted **Oct 6, 2014, 12:37 AM**

I remember being there in about 1977 or 1978 when a middle-aged man got liquored up and drove his car into the bus stop just outside Sears. I was waiting in the parking lot when it happened. No one got killed but it was certainly a moment of pandemonium.

RTWAP · #**200** Posted **Nov 25, 2014, 2:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by drawarc

Another interesting thing, the downtown Freimans also had a grocery store, a Steinberg's.

Here's some of the former Ottawa locations:

Source:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Steinberg's was an anchor tenant for Bayshore when it first opened, along with Eaton's and The Bay. A different era I guess. It used to be a good model to allow stay-at-home types to mix shopping and groceries in one visit.