Historic Halifax

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by HalifaxRetales

Thanks

Those are cool shots. I don’t recall seeing the movie but remember the city when it looked like that.

One note that I can add is that when those buildings below the Texpark were slated for demolition in the early or mid 1980s I used to walk by them on the way to the ferry. As abandoned buildings I recall a very strong smell of sewage as you passed by them, and that remains my strongest memory of them. I remember thinking that it was too bad they were left to deteriorate like that, because they seemed like they were probably cool buildings in their day. In my relative innocence, I just thought oh well, that’s the way it has to be because all old buildings tended to be neglected, abandoned and then torn down in Halifax, sometimes to be left as vacant lots for years (or decades). It’s just the way it was, and our city leaders didn’t pay it much mind. The older generations tended to have the “out with the old, in with the new” mentality as well.

Now when I see the pics I realize that we lost a lot in a relatively short time. Only now is it being built up in a way that I would have been happy with back then, but I would have been even more thrilled if some of these older buildings with character had been maintained and repurposed. Too late for that, though, so on we go.