Quote:
Originally Posted by rgalston
I think this is going to be my Spring/Summer hobby. I'll just start compiling a list of all these things (including painted signage that has the old five-digit phone numbers, and the old street sign at Tylehurst and Wolseley Avenue W.), and then getting out to them with my camera.
Suggestions are very welcome!
|
Maybe we can make a small thread out of this. Any little oddities or pieces of Winnipeg's past that have survived the years. Things that don't seem to serve any purpose must have had one once ... what were they?
My dad used to point out a big tall pole in the yard of a house on the river at the foot of Cockburn Street South that was supposed to be some relic of River Park -- a racecourse marker or something like that. I don't know if it's still there though. There was also the big depression in the riverbank along Kingston Row where the pontoon bridge used to be, but I think that might be gone now.
There are the occasional pieces of exposed streetcar track as well.