cool old regina photos. i always wondered what would have happened to regina if it wasn't hit by the tornado. Mabey it would be around calgary or winnipeg in size. but i guess it helped create what regina is today. The photos of the damage is really neat.
I posted this here a number of years ago but plenty of locals have joined up since, so it can't hurt to post it again:
From sometime in the 50s.
Wow, 21st Street back then... sucked. I would've expected there to be more buildings along it in a more or less continuous fashion. I guess the age of the automobile and surface parking lots had done its worst by then.
What's that large building in the bottom right at what I'm assuming sat on 20th Street and Spadina? Apartment building? Hotel? What happened!?!?!
Wow, 21st Street back then... sucked. I would've expected there to be more buildings along it in a more or less continuous fashion. I guess the age of the automobile and surface parking lots had done its worst by then.
What's that large building in the bottom right at what I'm assuming sat on 20th Street and Spadina? Apartment building? Hotel? What happened!?!?!
Hmmm, I didn't even notice that one...looks quite significant (size wise).
Maybe, but the courthouse is on Spadina, directly across from the Bess. That building looks to be located on 20th street, across from the Radisson Hotel, I think it is currently a gravel parking lot serving anoffice building on the corner of Spadina and 20th Street.
r u sure it is a photograph. It could be a print of a painting also which would have the same texture as a photograph. it does not seem too realist ic to me but i may be wrong
r u sure it is a photograph. It could be a print of a painting also which would have the same texture as a photograph. it does not seem too realist ic to me but i may be wrong
I'm thinking it is a colourized photo. They used to take black and white photos and paint over them with watercolors. That would also explain why the red church is grey as maybe they forgot to paint it. It would also explain why the coloring of the bessborough seems so weird.
I'm thinking it is a colourized photo. They used to take black and white photos and paint over them with watercolors. That would also explain why the red church is grey as maybe they forgot to paint it. It would also explain why the coloring of the bessborough seems so weird.
I smiled when reading some of the population and industrial growth predictions. Of course, much of the Mayor's interview had me thinking about predictions for Saskatoon, and indeed the province.
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The church (don't recall the name) to the left of the Bess is grey in this photo, but currently it is red...I guess they were bored with the grey
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