Streetcar tracks and overhead wires? I'll gamble on Barton too but I have no idea which street it is. This 1930s era map would likely show the candidates.

http://www.hamiltontransit.ca/wp-con...series_map.png
Source

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Anyone have a time machine?

1943,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0gZ4kPIMAA3FIi.jpg:large






love the shot of the bus terminal

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0gV8N7IYAA8ELV.jpg:large

https://twitter.com/timofnewbury/sta...573440/photo/1

The Terminal Building. Another shameful demolition.

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James Street North, looking south from King William St., circa 1958 - facebook vintage Hamilton

The Plantation used to be on Hwy 53 right?

As a kid, I remember driving that way (before it became Rymal Rd.) on the first leg of the trip to Windsor, as well as to get to my Westinghouse Hotpoint minor hockey league games at the Ancaster doublerinks every Saturday.

It was at Rymal and Upper Gage.

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Passing The Triton Hotel on Main Street West at MacNab, ca 1961

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ca 1961





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York St., 1967

Facebook-Vintage Hamilton

I've never seen this photo or any like it. I wish there were more of York before the 'renewal.'

A bustling street, that must have been.

Now that was a serious mistake. The new York set up doesn't seem to have added anything. I'm for renewal if it renews, but that was just destruction.

Notice how the street is only one lane in each direction, with street parking. Even back then when there was significantly more traffic on downtown streets than today. Not the empty 4-6 lane one-way streets of today.

Wentworth St. stairs 1955, facebook Vintage Hamilton

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^A few observations:
i) Mr Sub at the corner of King and Walnut;
ii) Ford Pinto - perhaps the worst car ever made; and
iii) The Hyland showing 'sexy' films?
The 70s rule.

How did a place showing films of that caliber go under? Sexy times for the hammer.

I have no memory of the building on the southeast corner of King and Walnut (where Forbidden City is now) with its windows uncovered.

Also just realized the pawnbroker's "LOANS" sign of today is the Hyland's with different lettering.

First Place must have been quite new in that photo.