Canadian skylines of the past - Page 70

csbvan · #**1381** Posted **Jan 18, 2015, 11:05 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monolith

[View of the Marine Building from a dock] by City of Vancouver Archives, on Flickr [ca. 1938]

Fantastic shot!

Also, agreed about the Hotel Vancouver. Such a shame, as was much of the loss of history in the decades between 1950-80. I believe it was CN Rail that demolished the building. Ridiculous!

drawarc · #**1382** Posted **Jan 18, 2015, 11:20 PM**

Rideau Street, 1970s:

Source:http://urbsite.blogspot.ca/2014/03/rideau-centre-history-part-7-preferred.html

Pinion · #**1383** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 3:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

^The two hotel vancouvers. Such a shame they tore down the second one, and also the Georgia medical building. That square would have been the nicest in the country, or on the same level as Place d'Armes. Really, I can't believe they tore down the second hotel vancouver.

It makes more sense when you know the old Hotel Vancouver had essentially been taken over by force by returning war veteran squatters. It wasn't just some nice hotel that they tore down for fun.

SignalHillHiker · #**1384** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 3:23 AM**

Beautifully composed Vancouver shots. Love old photos that are actually nice like that.

Monolith · #**1385** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 7:03 AM**

[The courthouse steps showing one lion] by City of Vancouver Archives, on Flickr [ca. 1936]

[The rear of a lion beside the courthouse steps] by City of Vancouver Archives, on Flickr [ca. 1936]

esquire · #**1386** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 2:45 PM**

Winnipeg skyline ca. 1920.

The taller buildings in the background basically line Portage Avenue from Portage and Main on the right to the Eaton's store on the left.

The homes and smaller buildings in the foreground were almost entirely demolished in the years following WWII as downtown gravitated south from the City Hall/Old Market Square area towards Broadway and the Legislature. Many would agree that this was a catastrophic planning mistake as the end result was spreading downtown Winnipeg over way too large of an area.

Source: City of Winnipeg Archives

Rico Rommheim · #**1387** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 4:15 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pinion

It makes more sense when you know the old Hotel Vancouver had essentially been taken over by force by returning war veteran squatters. It wasn't just some nice hotel that they tore down for fun.

Doesn't justify tearing down a building that would be hailed as a national heritage building were it still standing today.

SignalHillHiker · #**1388** Posted **Jan 19, 2015, 10:32 PM**

McFarlane Street, 1950s.

(Apparently Townies having absolutely no idea how to park isn't a new phenomenon).

And today:

*****

Queen's Road.

And today.

1905:

All pictures via Vintage St. John's or Google Street View.

J.OT13 · #**1389** Posted **Jan 20, 2015, 12:03 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by drawarc

Rideau Street, 1970s:

Source:http://urbsite.blogspot.ca/2014/03/rideau-centre-history-part-7-preferred.html

Similar view today:

http://urbsite.blogspot.ca/2014/03/rideau-centre-history-part-8-sketches.html

Chadillaccc · #**1390** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 7:34 AM**

Pretty amazing...

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Credit TheCalgaryTower on Twitter https://twitter.com/TheCalgaryTower/status/446713862176256001/photo/1
Edit by Dylan Leblanc on SSP http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=6511310#post6511310

Same angle this winter:

Credit neil_zee on Instagram http://instagram.com/p/x0c7jfzMWc/

logan5 · #**1391** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:12 AM**

It looks like there was a nice stretch of historic buildings along 8 ave sw. If that's the case, considering Calgary's anemic collection of heritage buildings, destroying them was a huge mistake. Maybe could've been Calgary's Granville street.

Trans Canada · #**1392** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:17 AM**

^ yeah it's pretty sad that much of the strip between 8th and 9th got flattened while along the rails is still parking lots

Chadillaccc · #**1393** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 8:23 AM**

A huge opportunity for the city's future. Tons of land to build tons more awesome, tall buildings on. We can't fix the past, but it's best to look to the future.

MolsonExport · #**1394** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 1:37 PM**

argh!!!

Metro-One · #**1395** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 1:48 PM**

haha, totally deflecting the comment about the lost strip of older buildings. Why was that entire strip torn down?

And by looking at the picture, this must have been after the 1960's / 1970's urban renewal phase. (Guessing that first Calgary photo is from around 1980??)

Trans Canada · #**1396** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 3:38 PM**

^ Mainly just to build towers, main ones being 3 sets of twins - Western Canadian Place aka Husky completed 1983, Eighth Avenue Place replacing the historic Penny Lane Mall starting 2007, Bankers Hall podium and tower 1 completed 1989.

Some historic buildings remain along 8th as part of Stephen Ave, and Bankers Hall incorporates a heritage facade, but it seems like such a waste to tear down buildings when there are parking lots across the street. Then again I don't know the details of land ownership, condition of the old buildings, etc...

Boris2k7 guessed 1973 last time this photo popped up in this thread.

franktko · #**1397** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 4:04 PM**

Seen on mtlurb, from the 60s:

A bit large

Xelebes · #**1398** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 4:08 PM**

The parking lots look like they are on the other side of the rails. Very difficult to build on those lands and find tenants who will mostly want to do business on the north side of the rails. The situation has been similar in Edmonton until the railyards had been pulled out and the land remediated.

franktko · #**1399** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 4:14 PM**

Got to start somewhere

Chadillaccc · #**1400** Posted **Jan 22, 2015, 5:32 PM**

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/archive/index.php/t-200395-p-10.html