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Originally Posted by trueviking
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The tallest of these buildings in the middle (with the large columns...sorry, don't know the name, only remember it as Comic World at one point), looked to have a caved-in roof several years ago when I was staying at the Radisson across the street and had a great view to the north.
Was this building destroyed in a fire? Or, were my eyes just decieving me?
BTW - Andy, thanks for posting all the cool old aerials...extremely cool. Are these all out of that book you mention, or some other archive?
So, here's a question to "poll" everyone here - what is the building lamented the most after being torn-down? One of my favourites was the old city hall...
On doing a quick search, this site came up with a whole bunch of fantastic "post cards" from way back:
http://www.manitobaphotos.com/postcards.htm