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Old Posted May 4, 2015, 4:53 PM
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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark View Post
That would have been a very expensive method as it probably would have take about 2 or 3 streetcars for each building, not to mention the difficulties in aiming once you got the easy ones done...

I was sitting at a red light at that very intersection this weekend and tried to picture this scene. There is nothing remaining that would even give a clue that this part of Brunswick Street ever looked like this. It drove home the point of how completely this neighborhood was cleared out in the sixties.
Another view of that side of the street:

http://shop.thechronicleherald.ca/Vi...et_p_4147.html

and behind that street: http://www.halifaxhistory.ca/Jacob-Starr.htm
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