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Originally Posted by 5seconds
I might as well post the east side of downtown while I'm at it. But yea, it was a city of 50,000, and the downtown wasn't more than a few blocks before the residential areas started.
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Its surprising to see how many buildings were "Moving Picture Theatre" open or under construction.
Even then there were "new & trendy" businesses opening up to cater to people's entertainment needs.
The "concrete found'n" in the 100 block E 7th Ave (opposite the Legion Hall) was still there in the 90's until the Telus Convention Centre was built. When I was a kid, I asked my grand-dad asked why that parking lot was sloped, and he explained it was the remnants of a theatre and office tower that went bankrupt during construction.
I only realised today that it had been there -bankrupt and unfinished- since before he was born (1915).