Old Pics Of Hamilton

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by lucasmascotto

Overhead view a few days before the official opening of the First Phase of Lloyd D. Jackson Square circa. the Summer of 1972.

Thanks! Nice find.

I don't hate Jackson Square, though I often wonder what that area would be like if it hadn't been built. But that pic looks so damn sterile.

[Dr Awesomesauce]

Originally Posted by lucasmascotto

Overhead view a few days before the official opening of the First Phase of Lloyd D. Jackson Square circa. the Summer of 1972.



Pedestrians waiting for one of the various concerts held atop the Lloyd D. Jackson Square rooftop in the late summer of 1972.



Opening of the Second Phase of Lloyd D. Jackson Square in 1977.

The first two images aren't showing up. Wanna see it!

[lucasmascotto]

Oh, my apologies...I always seem to have issues with uploading photos.

Overhead view a few days before the official opening of the First Phase of Lloyd D. Jackson Square circa. the Summer of 1972.




Pedestrians waiting for one of the various concerts held atop the Lloyd D. Jackson Square rooftop in the late summer of 1972.

[Dr Awesomesauce]

Very interesting! Pre-cinema. Waldorf Hotel still standing on Merrick/ York and MacNab.

[CaptainKirk]

Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

Very interesting! Pre-cinema. Waldorf Hotel still standing on Merrick/ York and MacNab.

I think that's the cinema peeking out from behind the Stelco tower.

[Dr Awesomesauce]

I thought the cinema was farther east. But, yeah, you're right.

[Millstone]

Originally Posted by lucasmascotto

Oh, my apologies...I always seem to have issues with uploading photos.

Overhead view a few days before the official opening of the First Phase of Lloyd D. Jackson Square circa. the Summer of 1972.




Pedestrians waiting for one of the various concerts held atop the Lloyd D. Jackson Square rooftop in the late summer of 1972.

Wow you mean stuff used to happen up there? People went there??

[Beedok]

Hamilton Urban Theatre at least used to do plays on the roof during the summer.

[CaptainKirk]

Regal Hotel on the northwest corner of By Street North and King Street West, circa 1911. The Hamilton House Hotel was at the northwest corner of King and Bay Streets in the 1850s.

It became The Florence five years later, under proprietor Rosewell Jeffrey. Occupation: gentleman. It was the Palm Hotel and Lager Beer Salon, then it became the Fairchild Hotel and The Dressel Hotel.

In 1906 it became The Regal Hotel, probably named after the Regal Brewery that used to be close by. For decades, the Regal billed itself as "one of oldest hotels in Hamilton. Established 1847." In addition to cheap draft, it offered rooms by the day, week and month.

The Unroth family of Toronto were the owners from the mid-1950’s to 2009, when Mike Unroth leased the property to the owners of the Honest Lawyer in Jackson Square. They then gutted the tavern and emptied out the rooming house above it as part of a one million dollar renovation. Cedar cladding was installed on the façade of the building marking the transformation into a bar and restaurant called Cottage Life.




Eastcourt, located at 7 Blake Street. Built around 1890, this magnificent estate was the home of John and Adelaide Hoodless, first woman employed by the Ontario Government to promote domestic science. Adelaide's Residence, is today a retirement home, and can be clearly seen from Main Street East.

HPL

[CaptainKirk]

The Central High School of Commerce was constructed at 149-159 Sanford Avenue North in 1932. The image shows the construction from the back of the building facing Wentworth Street North.

The view is mostly obscured by the Cathy Wever School.
In the fall of 1950 the School became part of the larger Central Secondary School which included the larger school backing onto this building on Wentworth Street North. That building was demolished in 1980. It was known by that name until 1966 when it was decided that it would house all Hamilton's below the mountain Grade 13 students to alleviate the overcrowding in the other high schools.

From September of 1966 it was known as Hamilton Collegiate Institute. In June of 1983 it closed as a Grade 13 only school and was converted for use as an elementary school known as Sanford Avenue School. It is still used for this purpose but also recently housed the students of Dr. J. Edgar Davey School while their school was being reconstructed.



1940 - 1950

801 Dunsmure Road. Built in 1923, W.H. Ballard School was named for Dr. W. H. Ballard, M.A. L.L.D,a well-known educator and citizen of Hamilton. It was the largest public school in Canada and a modern adaptation of the sixteenth century English Renaissance architecture.


HPL

[CaptainKirk]

The Merchant's Bank of Canada opened this east end branch on the corner of Holton Avenue and King Street East in 1914.




14 Bay St S

1940 - 1950

Hamilton Motor Products was located at 132 Main Street West. The dealership opened in 1936 with a display room on Main Street and the repair shops attached to them but with the entrance off Bay Street South, just north of Main Street..
The business closed their doors at this location in 2006 and moved up the mountain.


HPL

[CaptainKirk]

The Triton Hotel on Main Street West. The Triton Hotel, at 60 Main Street West, opened as the Ritz Men’s Club Hotel in 1927, catering to an exclusive list of doctors, lawyers and bankers. In 1948, William Stuart of Toronto bought the hotel with its 34 guest bedrooms. His was the first Hamilton Hotel to introduce honky-tonk piano. It closed in 1968, and soon after the city took possession of the hotel.



1952

Palmerston Terrace on the south side of Jackson St. West, west of Park Street was torn down in the late 1950s to make way for the new City Hall.

[CaptainKirk]

Looking south, along Park Street at City Hall (1962).



This branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce was located on King Street East at Wellington. The building was demolished in 1959 to make way for a new modern branch.



St. John's Presbyterian Church stood at the corner of Emerald Street and King Street East. It was torn down in 1975 to make way for Park Place an apartment/retail complex. The amalgamated congregation of St. John and St. Andrew Presbyterian Church continues to worship in a church attached to this building.

[CaptainKirk]

Howell's Drug Store on the corner of King Street East at Mary.



The King's Cafe was located on 28 John St. N. as photographed in January 1978.

[CaptainKirk]

127 King St E, Hamilton, 1950 - 1960

Canada Business College stood at the corner of King Street East and Catherine Street South



137 King St E,

This picture of the Palace Theatre was taken during the 1940s. The theatre opened as the Pantages in 1920, a combination vaudeville/motion picture theatre, it had 2007 seats. In 1930 it was renamed the Palace. The theatre closed in 1972 and the building was torn down.

[mattgrande]

Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

The Unroth family of Toronto were the owners from the mid-1950’s to 2009, when Mike Unroth leased the property to the owners of the Honest Lawyer in Jackson Square. They then gutted the tavern and emptied out the rooming house above it as part of a one million dollar renovation. Cedar cladding was installed on the façade of the building marking the transformation into a bar and restaurant called Cottage Life.

Cottage Life didn't last long (maybe a year?). Since then it was the Four Buck$ Saloon, and is now The George Hamilton Tavern (which is pretty nice).

[Dr Awesomesauce]

Oh man, I just OD'd. Thanks for all that sweet, sweet history.

[CaptainKirk]

The Thistle Club, renowned for its curling facilities, was a men's club until the 1930s. Throughout the years it evolved to also have facilities for playing squash, tennis, badminton and lawn bowling, as well as a dining room and lounges.

The club folded in 2002.This photo was taken as the Club hosted a bonspiel to celebrate its Centennial (1853-1953). The large circle that is seen on the ice contains the words "Welcome, Thistle Centennial Year, 1853-1953




1956

[CaptainKirk]

205-217 Cannon St E
1940 - 1950

Orange Crush is an orange-flavoured soft drink that was invented by Clayton J. Powel of Los Angeles, California in 1916. By 1921 there was an Orange-Crush Bottling Company office in Hamilton



Construction of the Lister Block on James Street South after a fire destroyed the building on February 23, 1923.

[CaptainKirk]

Under Construction in 1970, 25 Charlton Avenue East


1955



1932 - Mount Hamilton Hospital. The first building of the Mount Hamilton Hospital opened as a veteran’s hospital in April of 1917. The Nora-Frances Henderson Convalescent Hospital was built on the same site.



Wentworth Radio & Auto Supply Co. Ltd., 179 Ottawa Street North.