Historical Winnipeg discussion

[trueviking]

thought these articles were interesting. monorails and the downtown U of M.

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history...monorail.shtml

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history...dwaysite.shtml

[dennis]

Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

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

Thanks so much for the pictures. Enjoyed looking back.

I remember that bridge when I was young. I remember the ornate stone or concrete slabs at the foot of the bridge. I also remember the bridge being right up to the Winnipeg Cold Storage building. There was a huge eye painted on the side of the building that was there for years after the original bridge was demolished. And the people wondering how thst eye got up there.

[esquire]

I vividly remember that eye when it was freshly painted sometime in the early 80s... probably the most prominent piece of street art that I can remember from my preschool years

[1ajs]

1930's graham

[Labroco]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

1930's graham

Great picture! I’ve never seen that one. Our bldg at 399 Graham is in the foreground!

Is that girl on roller skates?

[1ajs]

figured u would like that shot and yea apears to be

[Luisito]

Not sure if some one posted this already but it just came up on my fyp. Really great pics of Winnipeg in there. I could only identify a handful of spots.

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[1ajs]

damn

[trueviking]

which direction am i looking? is that where the richardson parkade is?

[Jeff]

south east!

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by trueviking

which direction am i looking? is that where the richardson parkade is?

towards the ball park


found this photo on facebook in If you grew up in Winnipeg Manitoba you remember... group

[trueviking]

brutal.
i had no idea there were large buildings on that site

[1ajs]

[trueviking]

there used to be a gas station on lombard?

[esquire]

Originally Posted by trueviking

brutal.
i had no idea there were large buildings on that site

It's interesting that so much of the East Exchange survived but the area closer to Portage and Main, let's say south of McDermot, got mostly cleared out to the point where there are hardly any old warehouses remaining. I remember there were demolitions still happening as late as the 1990s.

[trueviking]

I have an image in my mind's eye of going past the one they tore down to make the ball park parking lot....someone had spray painted 'heritage lost' across it....i recall it being one of the first times i thought about heritage value in buildings.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by trueviking

I have an image in my mind's eye of going past the one they tore down to make the ball park parking lot....someone had spray painted 'heritage lost' across it....i recall it being one of the first times i thought about heritage value in buildings.

That was one of the last big demolitions in that area... would have been sometime in the mid 90s.

You can see it in the bottom left of this picture. It was right at the foot of Portage Ave. E.

[wardlow]

Here is the same building (Codville warehouse) seen from Pioneer/Notre Dame East. Demolished in the early 1990s.

[wardlow]

Here's a couple of great shots of the tiny little 19th century residential area on Notre Dame East, located where the ball park is now. You can see these dwellings in the aerial above as well. I think they had all disappeared by the 1980s.

[trueviking]

^^ No way!

what was the smokestack, i wonder.