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Originally Posted by Urban recluse
Back then, was the reason not the ground conditions?
I too wish Winnipeg had a couple of 20+ art deco towers. Almost every US has them: OKC, Tulsa, KC, Toledo, etc etc.
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You can thank the general strike for that. The '20s were a good time for skyscraper building everywhere but Winnipeg. It took 10 years for people to decide this city wasn't just a bunch of irate commies ready to sink any investment (a real concern in those days) and by the time the paleo-Richardson building above came along, the Great Depression was just around the corner.