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Originally Posted by Drybrain
To be fair to ILove, a lot of the pics of the Halifax slums I've seen look pretty dire. But so did parts of the North End that are still intact and largely restored (especially the area up and down Falkland Street). ILove seems never to have met an old building he's not ready to condemn, so I'm gonna be skeptical about how far gone into ruin a building has to be before he writes it off.
In any case, it wasn't all rotten wooden slums:
Every building in this shot is gone, save for the one at the far left, and every one would have been worthy of preservation. But: DRINKING DENS! |
I wasn't going to further derail the SGR thread (maybe we could get part of this moved to a new thread?), but yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. Don't know what these particular buildings would have looked like by the sixties but we've seen other buildings of similar structure which have been brought back or at least their facades preserved. Wouldn't it be cool if the building front and center had been saved? (especially if it had a ground floor drinking den... lol)
Edit: It occurs to me that this would be a cool name for a new bar... "The Drinking Den"
