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Old Posted Jan 6, 2012, 3:47 PM
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Originally Posted by 1ajs View Post
freeweed u mean vaugn street billiards?
Yeah, whatever it's called now - it used to be Las Vegas back in my day (kudos to the memory of Kinguni!).

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the mets not a rotting corps its been on life support for 20 yrs and is currently undergoing work... the little building beside it was torn down this week
It's been effectively a derelict, abandoned building since I was in high school. Which was in the 1980s. Every year or five, someone comes along with a project to use it for something, and nothing happens. The Met was in my mind the single best symbol of Winnipeg over the past century - its prior greatness, its slow decline, its eventual fall into utter decay, constant plans to fix things that never go anywhere, and (hopefully for the Met as well) an eventual climb to new heights.

"Rotting corpse" is a pretty decent analogy, although of course this all changes once something is done with it. Plenty of buildings in Winnipeg have gone unused longer and been restored (Union Bank building, anyone?).
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