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coalminecanary

Dec 12, 2013 4:14 PM

You can clearly see the camera location if you look at this shot...

The "R" on robinson's and the "loans" sign sticking out over the sidewalk are both visible in the BW shot above. So definitely shot from gore park looking North on James.

So who originally posted the B/W and where did it come from?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/...ec46b5_b_d.jpg

(photo from http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=634402&page=2 and part of one of my favourite "series" of 60s colour photos downtown - there are 3 or 4 floating around, posted here in the past)

Dr Awesomesauce

Dec 14, 2013 12:46 AM

I'm just barely old enough to remember James looking that way (save for the Birk's Building).

Saturday mornings my mum would drag us from the Market to Eaton's basement to Zeller's, then on to Kresge's until finally putting us out of our misery at Robison's. It sucked big ones.

I never saw James South. No idea what was happening up there in those days. Downtown life really revolved around James North.

Katrillion

Dec 14, 2013 5:12 AM

When/why did they change the roof of the Birks Building so that the clock wasn't at the top?

ScreamingViking

Dec 14, 2013 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Katrillion (Post 6374103)

When/why did they change the roof of the Birks Building so that the clock wasn't at the top?

From when it was the Canada Life building (1890s). I don't know, but Henley has a pic:

http://henleyshamilton1.files.wordpr...01/aa-1aaa.jpg
source

CaptainKirk

Dec 14, 2013 1:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce (Post 6367827)

I've seen pictures of that business at the corner of James N and Market/ York a million times but until now I never really read the sign: DUNCAN & CO WALLPAPER WARE ROOMS. Weird.

And also STUART & Co WALLPAPPER WARE ROOMS

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...57028633_n.jpg
https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/...82053833_n.jpg

CaptainKirk

Dec 14, 2013 8:05 PM

Facebook - Vintage Hamilton

https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/...40012040_n.jpg

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Marching past Gore Park 1915

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n..._1738629_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...33452344_n.jpg

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1908-05-24 - On Empire Day, May 24, 1908 the statue of Queen Victoria was unveiled by Canada's Governor-General Earl Grey. Over 22,000 people gathered to witness this event. There was a military guard of honour, consisting of 100 men from the Ninety-First Highland Regiment and 100 men from the Thirteenth Regiment plus 460 school children who sang patriotic songs. The funds for the statue were raised by a group of Hamilton's leading ladies who formed the Queen Victoria Statue Committee on January 26, 1901 just four days after the death of Queen Victoria.

Dr Awesomesauce

Dec 15, 2013 1:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katrillion (Post 6374103)

When/why did they change the roof of the Birks Building so that the clock wasn't at the top?

A fire broke out during a renovation after - I believe - Birk's purchased the building from Canada Life. Early 1920s I think. Lucky they didn't lose the whole building, really. That's when Birk's commissioned the building of that amazing clock that now graces the Market.

Dr Awesomesauce

Dec 15, 2013 1:14 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk (Post 6374241)

And also STUART & Co WALLPAPPER WARE ROOMS

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...57028633_n.jpg

Nice shot of the City Hall that preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque pile everyone's so familiar with.

Dr Awesomesauce

Dec 18, 2013 2:00 PM

Pinched this link from the Vintage Hamilton FB page - 1920s film about Hamilton. Some amaze-balls shots.

ScreamingViking

Dec 19, 2013 8:47 AM

Wow - that's terrific. It really brings the old images to life.