Canadian skylines of the past - Page 112

Phil McAvity · #**2221** Posted **Sep 24, 2016, 12:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by BretttheRiderFan

Is it just me, or are even the lowest rungs of society a lot better looking today than back then?

True dat, most of those women that ran brothels were so fugly I wouldn't put my worst enemy's dick in them

Brizzy82 · #**2222** Posted **Sep 25, 2016, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

Well that was a sin to destroy. What was it replaced with?

MTS Centre (hockey arena)

esquire · #**2223** Posted **Sep 26, 2016, 4:01 PM**

^ For what it's worth, the Eaton's Department Store's larger twin, the Eaton's Warehouse, still stands today as an office building. It is a massive building.

source: johndobbin.blogspot.ca

I don't think the demolition of the Eaton's store was a very proud moment for downtown Winnipeg, but preserving it was a tall order. Eaton's closed down in 1999 when downtown was still in some very serious doldrums with little development activity of any kind and zero residential. Repurposing a century old, almost one million square foot department store was a challenge to say the least. Had Eaton's lasted even a decade longer I think things might have turned out differently, but alas.

For what it's worth, the downtown Hudson's Bay store a bit farther down Portage has been dying a slow death for years and there have been many efforts directed at finding another purpose for it, but no one has stepped up yet. Massive old department stores are a real challenge, to say the least.

hipster duck · #**2224** Posted **Sep 26, 2016, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Massive old department stores are a real challenge, to say the least.

The era of the grand downtown department store is slowly coming back, which is not something I would have predicted ten years ago. Hang in there, Winnipeg!

esquire · #**2225** Posted **Sep 26, 2016, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by hipster duck

The era of the grand downtown department store is slowly coming back, which is not something I would have predicted ten years ago. Hang in there, Winnipeg!

We're a bit behind the curve... the downtown Bay is in a state of terminal decline, and I doubt it'll last long enough until Winnipeggers suddenly rediscover big downtown department store shopping again.

KnoxfordGuy · #**2226** Posted **Sep 26, 2016, 8:33 PM**

View of Fredericton in 1865 from what is now call Sir Howard Douglas Hall (opened in 1829) of the University of New Brunswick. That is Christ Church Cathedral (opened in 1853) at the bottom of the hill. Both buildings are still there, though they look somewhat different today.

2016-09-26_03-43-05 by James McGrath, on Flickr

Sir Howard Douglas Hall in this 1842 view of Fredericton:

W3338 by James McGrath, on Flickr

Fredericton from the Saint John River in 1842:

W3336 by James McGrath, on Flickr

Fredericton from across the river in 1842:

W3337 by James McGrath, on Flickr

SkahHigh · #**2227** Posted **Oct 1, 2016, 5:18 AM**

1980s Montreal

Montreal Skyline by Peter Anthony Holder, sur Flickr

Rico Rommheim · #**2228** Posted **Oct 1, 2016, 12:30 PM**

^Neat find.

1980' Montreal - The gloomy years.

SignalHillHiker · #**2229** Posted **Oct 4, 2016, 12:25 PM**

A few older ones from the Port Authority.

That tea house's name is Dick Steele.

Nice.

MonkeyRonin · #**2230** Posted **Oct 4, 2016, 2:43 PM**

Cool shots. St. John's of old looks like it would have been such a perfectly rough little port city.

SignalHillHiker · #**2231** Posted **Oct 4, 2016, 2:45 PM**

"The first three buildings in this city were a church, a bar, and a whorehouse, and it's only gotten bigger since."

itom 987 · #**2232** Posted **Oct 8, 2016, 7:34 PM**

Jasper Avenue, Edmonton in the '60s

Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta
by Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr

Monolith · #**2233** Posted **Oct 8, 2016, 7:53 PM**

CPR Vancouver 1930 by RCN News, on Flickr Uploaded on April 6, 2016

Black Star · #**2234** Posted **Oct 8, 2016, 10:33 PM**

^^Fantastic pics of Jasper Ave. Love the cars.

Andy6 · #**2235** Posted **Oct 9, 2016, 12:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ For what it's worth, the Eaton's Department Store's larger twin, the Eaton's Warehouse, still stands today as an office building. It is a massive building.

source: johndobbin.blogspot.ca

ultimate source = Andy6 ... just for the record.

It was more properly the Mail Order or Catalogue building. Originally it was the Factory building, where they made everything from men's suits to jewellery to buggies and carriages.

Jeff · #**2236** Posted **Oct 9, 2016, 3:00 AM**

those Edmonton 60s shots are FANTASTIC!!!!

esquire · #**2237** Posted **Oct 9, 2016, 11:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

ultimate source = Andy6 ... just for the record.

I should have known

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Originally Posted by Jeff

those Edmonton 60s shots are FANTASTIC!!!!

Agreed. It's astonishing how quickly things were changing during that period... barely 25 years later and the street scene would have been radically different.

SignalHillHiker · #**2238** Posted **Oct 12, 2016, 10:33 PM**

Soldiers returning home in 1945. I haven't seen many videos of St. John's in the period when there were lots of cars but before we switched to driving on the right. Most of the older videos tend to be back when horses were more common.

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SignalHillHiker · #**2239** Posted **Oct 12, 2016, 11:03 PM**

A few larger versions of the 1940s aerials.

A map of St. John's at the time.

Parliament, the Colonial Building in Bannerman Park, with the upper portion of Rawlin's Cross on the left.

Buckmaster's Circle neighbourhood adjacent to downtown.

My house is in this one, on the left. That's the Rabbittown neighbourhood, before Summerville and Churchill Park were build adjacent to it. The neighbourhood at the lower right is Georgestown.

And one from the 60s.

MonkeyRonin · #**2240** Posted **Oct 13, 2016, 3:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

A map of St. John's at the time.

Almost reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:C...ap_of_1677.jpg