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[flar]

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[Sekkle]

Man... excellent photos! Beautiful, urban, gritty... BUG. Great job!

[someone123]

Interesting buildings in many cases but it's kind of unfortunate that they're kept in such a fugly state.

[LSyd]

wow...great housing stock. keep up the great threads.

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[Austinlee]

Lots of sexy brick.

Hamilton is surely Canada's north Pittsburgh, Birmingham of the North North.

[Cbautz]

cool!

[SteelTown]

Great work flar!

Notice how every single house has a different roof colour?
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/inner2008/00139.jpg

[JivecitySTL]

Brick + old + soul = Just my flavor. JivecityHTN.

[4orty4th]

dirty!
nice job

[MobyLL]

Yep, gritty. The good kind. I like it.

[DC83]

Awesome tour! I actually recognize a lot of these shots as I used to work in the east end.

And although the houses may look trashy, these neighbourhoods have some of the best/closest neighbours (friendship wise) in the entire city. Everyone always talks about east-end charm! Hell... they'll even rent out their front lawn for $5 if you want to park on it for a Ti-Cat game! Some let u park for free!!

Unless I'm mistaken, I'm pretty sure these were built to house athletes for the first ever British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games) held here in Hamilton!

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/inner2008/00032.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/inner2008/00030.jpg
side note: the guy w/ the tubing is NOT one of those athletes! hahaha

[Monetto]

gorgeous

[Bergenser]

You gotta love Hamilton, with all the dirt and urban stuff. :D

[BuffaloSam]

Fantastic!

[Swinefeld]

That was hardcore!

[boden]

Enjoyed the pics!

[rousseau]

Lots of sexy brick.

Hamilton is surely Canada's north Pittsburgh, Birmingham of the North North.
Great thread, though Hamilton isn't "Canada's Pittsburgh" anymore than Pittsburgh is the US's Hamilton.

My impression is that Hamilton is a bit more like Manchester than Birmingham, though. Hamilton is actually geographically south of Birmingham, though.

[someone123]

I think he means the one in Alabama. ;)

Hamilton has pretty typical Ontario-style Victorian architecture, but the 20th century pre-war buildings do look really similar to what exists in Midwestern US cities. Hamilton does resemble Pittsburgh. Toronto is slightly different and other cities in Ontario weren't large enough early enough to have large neighbourhoods with this kind of architecture.

[flar]

Hamilton has tons of this type of housing. In the photos above I avoided areas I've previously shown on here, like Corktown (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138983) and Jamesville (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141853). Here are some other examples:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/james/00290.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/corktwn/00107.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stinson/00031.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stclair/00299.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/delta/00024.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/corktwn/00167.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/james/00170.jpg

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http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/twilight2/00093.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/twilight2/mars.jpg

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http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/deindustrialization/00047.jpg

[Hozay]

This kind of hood is a rarity in Canada!

[raisethehammer]

awesome job flar! I love this city. where is picture 28 and what is going on?? is that house being reno'd? looks like new windows etc....
And where is picture 53?? looks awesome.

that second set of pics makes me miss summer....and that's saying something because I LOVE winter!

[mrherodotus]

Very enjoyable thread.

[LikeHamilton]

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I grew up in that house on the corner with the awful blue post. Believe it or not but that house had large maple in front and one at the side of the house. There was one next door and they all had lawns in front. We move in the fall of 67 just before they cut everything down and turned it into a freeway. It was a nice neighbourhood back then. The guy behind us was a DJ at CKOC and all of the girls in neighbourhood had a crush on him.

[flar]

^^ I would have loved to see these neighbourhoods in the 60's!


awesome job flar! I love this city. where is picture 28 and what is going on?? is that house being reno'd? looks like new windows etc....
And where is picture 53?? looks awesome.


#28 has looked like that for at least a year, I don't think it's a reno. #53 is at Sherman & Cannon I think.

These are definitely the neighbourhoods that made me fall in love with the city, they are rare in Canada. I could walk these streets all day, in fact I did for these pics and I didn't even make it halfway across the city. These pics cover nearly 200 blocks in Beasely, Landsdale, Gibson, Stipley and Crown Point and I've barely explored the city past Ottawa St.

[big T]

Man what a thread.
Your love for the area really shows -- and it's contagious. It's always a pleasure to see your photos.

[CCF]

Very neat. Thanks for sharing.

[flar]

Thanks all :)

The other thing I was going to mention here is that this area looks extra dirty because there was snow on the ground a couple weeks ago which melted and left a mess. I'm not going to lie to you though, much of this area is normally dirty. The city really doesn't give a damn about it, and a lot of Hamiltonians would just as soon see it all demolished.

[denveraztec]

Fantastic thread!

[mrherodotus]

Bump!

[Canasian]

Great shots! Thanks Flar!!!!!!!!

[KevinFromTexas]

Very cool.

I can't look away from this one.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/james/00279-00283.jpg

[flar]

What the hell, since this thread is back, here is a bunch more inner city housing in Hamilton:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/innercity/38.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/delta2008/00156.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stinson3/00180-00184.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/corktwn/00005.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/delta2008/00115.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/deindustrialization/00193.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/delta2008/00023.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stinson3/00188.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/deindustrialization/00221.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stinson3/00168.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/delta2008/00002.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stonehammer/00044.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/delta2008/00162.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/kirkendall/00187.jpg

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http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/stonehammer/00053.jpg

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http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/corktwn/00350.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/james/00152.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/Innerjuly/00165.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/corktwn/00140.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/innercity/34.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/Innerjuly/00215.jpg

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http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/kirkendall/00114.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/corktwn/00190.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/jamesville/00113.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/Innerjuly/00145.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/jamesville/00089.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/kirkendall/00149.jpg

[xzmattzx]

Hmm, I never caught this thread the first time around. Nice pictures.

[Evergrey]

top-notch collection, mate... there's so much texture and colour in your neighbourhood compositions