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Yeah, I see the government of Manitoba crest on it, but I have no idea what it is, or the building with the chateau style roof.
old law lybrary? or somthing? looks to be same style as the old court house and the old ledge prolly and the gg house on the ledge grounds


as for the art deco one it was prolly built along with the curent archives building as some sorta utility building for it ? as part of the make work stuff in the 30's
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Cool photo... that guy has an awesome flickr collection of random Winnipeg shots.

What is that building in the foreground at York and Kennedy? I don't remember it at all.
That was the former garage for the Provence of Manitoba fleet services now known as VEMA (Vehicle and Equipment Management Agency).

It relocated to 626 Henry Avenue @ Sherbrook so the remand center could be built there.
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^ Thank you for solving the mystery. The remand centre was built sometime around 1994, making it one of the only significant new builds downtown started and completed in the 1990s. However, I have no recollection whatsoever of the fleet garage that preceded it.
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Does anyone know anything about that grand old apartment building next to the First Nations Bank building, at the corner of Edmonton and Broadway? Shame there's a parking lot there now.
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No kidding, what a beauty.
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Does anyone know anything about that grand old apartment building next to the First Nations Bank building, at the corner of Edmonton and Broadway? Shame there's a parking lot there now.
I remember that it burned down in the early 80's. It was very similar to the Princeton Block at 314 Broadway if I remember correctly. Was it the Devon Block?
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I remember that it burned down in the early 80's. It was very similar to the Princeton Block at 314 Broadway if I remember correctly. Was it the Devon Block?
Close, it was the Devon Court
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Close, it was the Devon Court
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http://archiseek.com/2012/1909-devon...dway-winnipeg/
It looks much grander actually, though I was never in the building.

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She was a true gem. I wish I didn't see this:

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/Winnipeg...ing.jsp?id=326
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nw corner of provonche and tache where the fountain is now
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^ I remember hearing the name of that place, but I have no recollection of that building whatsoever. The park there is nice, but a building there added a certain definition to the corner that doesn't exist now.

Incidentally, could that place have possibly looked any more like a military bunker? That main floor... yikes.
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nw corner of provonche and tache where the fountain is now
If I'm not mistaken that hotel was owned by the head of the Manitoba Hotel Association at that time, Jim Major? Pretty sure he was partnered up with Ross Kennedy and Ken Wersh who also owned the Chalet Hotel and the Merchants Hotel on Selkirk Ave.
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^ I remember hearing the name of that place, but I have no recollection of that building whatsoever. The park there is nice, but a building there added a certain definition to the corner that doesn't exist now.

Incidentally, could that place have possibly looked any more like a military bunker? That main floor... yikes.
ya those horible 60's renos

also see it in this pic with the origonal provonchea bridge beside it
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I have to say, all of the signage - mural, billboard, neon makes things really look big city. I generally find when looking back at vintage pictures of downtown that it looks more big city back then, than with all of the big tall buildings of today.
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I have to say, all of the signage - mural, billboard, neon makes things really look big city. I generally find when looking back at vintage pictures of downtown that it looks more big city back then, than with all of the big tall buildings of today.
I completely agree. Winnipeg of yesteryear was much more layered and textured... it wasn't like today where you have one entire block that functions as the provincial department of labour (or whatever) and nothing else. The signs spoke to that. In that picture of Graham Avenue, Winnipeg then looks like certain parts of megacities do now.

I guess in the 60s they thought it was progress to eliminate all of the signs as "visual clutter", but I think we can easily see how much was lost in the process.
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I completely agree.
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