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Originally Posted by Laceoflight
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bumping this to the next page, awesome shot.
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Originally Posted by rousseau
That really is a fantastic angle of Winnipeg. That's Garry Street running down the centre of the photo, but where exactly is the photographer standing? At the south end of the top of the red brick building at the corner of King and McDermot?
This photo sent me to Google street view to investigate, and I just spent a very enjoyable half hour rummaging around the Exchange District and reminiscing about when I was 18 and first went there after having moved to Winnipeg. This area of old manufacturing buildings from the turn of the previous century really does provide the city with a powerful sense of place and identity. It's just such an incredibly handsome district. I'm thinking that photos of it would really pull on the heartstrings of Winnipeggers who have left, perhaps more than any other area of the city.
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I just tried to map it out myself & I think it might be around the rooftop of 66 King St (Maltese Cross Building according to Google, if that helps). That would line up directly with Garry St, and that would make sense having the corner of that I believe is the Whitla building directly in the lower left of the picture.
A lot of these Instagram kids here (and everywhere, I presume) really manage to get some cool vantage points such as this. Unfortunately few of them make it to Flickr from what I can see.
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