Historical Winnipeg discussion - Page 154

zalf · #**3061** Posted **Feb 24, 2022, 4:10 PM**

Other weirdness:

- Churchill High School sits atop an old cemetery
- A segment of what is now Kildonan Drive was Kent Road
- "Stradbrooke Place" and "Spadina Avenue" were fused at some point into Stradbrook Avenue, and and "e" was lost along the way

This is fascinating

peg · #**3062** Posted **Feb 24, 2022, 4:27 PM**

Look at the avenues in River Heights - they all have different names.

West of Cambridge street:

Academy is Godfrey Ave

Kingsway is Colqunoun Ave

Grovesner is Haskins Ave

Corydon is Jackson Ave

Fleet is Lennon Ave

Grant is the same

Mathers appears to be either Arnold Ave or Hetherington Ave

Taylor is also the same

Very cool map.

BubberMiley · #**3063** Posted **Feb 24, 2022, 9:01 PM**

This film has it all. All over Winnipeg in the 50s and 60s. I particularly like nighttime Portage Avenue at Christmas around the 6:00 minute mark. Also the amazing animated window displays just before these shots as well as later in the film. I suspect the first is the Bay at night and the second is Eaton's during the day. Not sure though. All before my time.
https://youtu.be/-OCkpByzZ-s

BubberMiley · #**3064** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 1:56 AM**

This is quite good, starting with the plane flying over the city. I was confused though at 2:10. Are those cadets walking past a big blue Safeway in downtown?
https://youtu.be/LfMdKiUvTQM

Update: Yes, from the panning shot at 1:29, it's at the NW corner of Broadway and Donald.

bomberjet · #**3065** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 2:25 AM**

There's tons of weirdness in those old maps. Unicity they removed all the duplicate names.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/manito...n/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/manito...n/photostream/
I'm down the rabbit hole now. If it was 1950 and my home was here, it be flooded haha the blue finger in East Kildonan. There's only about 3 blocks of homes near Munroe and London. And we'd be in the boonies. My house was built in 1959.

Also the house I grew up in is in the blue finger. Built in the 1970's right beside Kimberley Hill, where the big fire was. The depression of the flooded area is still in place on a lot of streets around here.

biguc · #**3066** Posted **Feb 25, 2022, 9:15 AM**

I love how Ft. Garry and St. Boniface successfully protected themselves from flooding while the COW apparently just took it. Probably fighting over the cost of dirt.

davequanbury · #**3067** Posted **Feb 28, 2022, 3:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by biguc

Just posted this in the Exchange thread but I'll post it here too so things don't get too off topic.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/manitobamaps/2340939496

Things:

South Osborne used to be called Pembina Street!?
Henderson Highway was Bird's Road.
Check out how Sargent just kind of dissolves. Weird stuff in the West End
Look at that diamond at Kenaston and Grant.
No Osborne or Memorial north of the old legistlative grounds. The UofM is there instead.
Lilac used to have a streetcar for a stretch, which explains why it's kind of dense and has some commercial spaces.

Weird about the Pembina label because there are essentially two Pembinas on the map. Could it possibly be a typo by the cartographer? Definitely some changes in the West End. Kind of cool to see the footprint of Happyland still visible between Dominion and Aubrey st.

Henderson is actually Bird's Hill rd.

esquire · #**3068** Posted **Feb 28, 2022, 4:03 PM**

The Pembinas were in two different municipalities, much like how there were (and still are) two Notre Dames.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**3069** Posted **Mar 1, 2022, 12:50 AM**

Wolseley was Ida and Bath, Westminster was Ruell and Ayr. Who knew?

BubberMiley · #**3070** Posted **Mar 1, 2022, 1:22 AM**

I think at one of the intersections on Wolseley there is still an Ida St. sign embedded in the sidewalk.

The Unknown Poster · #**3071** Posted **Apr 12, 2022, 8:04 PM**

Not sure if this is old enough to qualify for the historic thread (delete if not appropriate) but as everyone is talking about the pending storm, here's a music video put out by CBC of the Blizzard of 86!

• Video Link

emeraldeyes · #**3072** Posted **Apr 13, 2022, 5:27 PM**

https://www.winnipegcommercialrealto...peg-MB-R2K-2H3
the listing says it is offered on an 'unpriced basis'...

BubberMiley · #**3073** Posted **Apr 18, 2022, 2:49 PM**

Still watching old home movies.
This one has some great shots of the Bombers at Osborne Stadium at the 10 minute mark.

https://archive.org/details/2020-018...een+Wilson.MP4

esquire · #**3074** Posted **Apr 18, 2022, 3:41 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BubberMiley

Still watching old home movies.
This one has some great shots of the Bombers at Osborne Stadium at the 10 minute mark.

https://archive.org/details/2020-018...een+Wilson.MP4

That's awesome, the footage from the Bomber game is something else. It says it was taken in 1952 but with the primitive appearance of Osborne Stadium it looks like it was 50 years before that

A very cool look into bygone Winnipeg... thanks for posting.

BubberMiley · #**3075** Posted **Apr 18, 2022, 6:47 PM**

The third film in that collection also has great colour shots of the Polo Park racetrack, also around the 10 minute mark.

trueviking · #**3076** Posted **Apr 19, 2022, 2:09 AM**

Football game was on November 11, 1952. Western final against Edmonton. The Bombers lost 22-11. Edmonton would play and lose to Toronto in the Grey Cup.

esquire · #**3077** Posted **Jun 23, 2022, 1:36 PM**

https://oseredok.ca/demolition-salte...sis-1983-1984/

19 pictures taken of the replacement of the old Salter Bridge with the current Slaw Rebchuk Bridge in 1983-84.

I had some extended family members just off Salter, a stone's throw from the bridge, so I spent a fair bit of time in that area when I was a kid... I remember this construction project was a big big deal to preschool me, ha.

Interesting that the Salter Bridge barely made it 50 years before being replaced.

davequanbury · #**3078** Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 12:11 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by esquire

https://oseredok.ca/demolition-salte...sis-1983-1984/

19 pictures taken of the replacement of the old Salter Bridge with the current Slaw Rebchuk Bridge in 1983-84.

I had some extended family members just off Salter, a stone's throw from the bridge, so I spent a fair bit of time in that area when I was a kid... I remember this construction project was a big big deal to preschool me, ha.

Interesting that the Salter Bridge barely made it 50 years before being replaced.

This is awesome, thanks! Was the old bridge was to the west of the current bridge?

OTA in Winnipeg · #**3079** Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 3:24 AM**

^Yes. It was right up almost against Winnipeg Cold Storage.

Thanks so much for the pictures. Enjoyed looking back.

Highwayman · #**3080** Posted **Jun 24, 2022, 9:24 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by esquire

https://oseredok.ca/demolition-salte...sis-1983-1984/

19 pictures taken of the replacement of the old Salter Bridge with the current Slaw Rebchuk Bridge in 1983-84.

I had some extended family members just off Salter, a stone's throw from the bridge, so I spent a fair bit of time in that area when I was a kid... I remember this construction project was a big big deal to preschool me, ha.

Interesting that the Salter Bridge barely made it 50 years before being replaced.

I was looking through the pics and there are some of the underside of the old Bridge and it looked in worse shape then even the Arlington as there was alot of concrete mixed with steel supports. The steel looked fine but the concrete looked like it was just falling apart.