Images of Edmonton - Page 232

Urban recluse · #**4621** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 8:04 PM**

I can’t seem to find pics of what Canada Place replaced. I’m assuming small buildings.

fortroad · #**4622** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

Sigh

The good old days may have looked cool but all I see is litter in the second image. Edmonton is better today in many ways, people out and about downtown is coming back slowly.

Rogie · #**4623** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 10:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

I can’t seem to find pics of what Canada Place replaced. I’m assuming small buildings.

It replaced the Alberta Hotel on the corner of Jasper/97 St and an assortment of other buildings. The Alberta was very much a run-down building and establishment at that point.

I am, however, glad of where they rebuilt it and the job they did.

kcantor · #**4624** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 11:47 PM**

^^

maybe all you see is litter... all i see is a very — ragtop corvette.

Urban recluse · #**4625** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 12:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rogie

It replaced the Alberta Hotel on the corner of Jasper/97 St and an assortment of other buildings. The Alberta was very much a run-down building and establishment at that point.

I am, however, glad of where they rebuilt it and the job they did.

Oh wow, I had no idea it was originally in a different location.

Urban recluse · #**4626** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 12:18 AM**

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The good old days may have looked cool but all I see is litter in the second image. Edmonton is better today in many ways, people out and about downtown is coming back slowly

Could have been a particularly windy day. I will always prefer what I see in old photos than what we have now. I am an old soul in a younger body. Disagree. I don't think downtowns are anywhere near as great now as they were back then.

Sonog · #**4627** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 3:56 PM**

@jefrosonic

Coldrsx · #**4628** Posted **Oct 4, 2018, 5:54 PM**

@ianoyeg

Urban recluse · #**4629** Posted **Oct 5, 2018, 2:42 AM**

http://smackaay.com/author/smackaay/

Coldrsx · #**4630** Posted **Oct 5, 2018, 2:50 AM**

Amazing.

Urban recluse · #**4631** Posted **Oct 5, 2018, 2:56 AM**

Yeah, oh how I wish many of those buildings were still standing; added character to downtown streets.

B.ike · #**4632** Posted **Oct 5, 2018, 2:22 PM**

Cropped view from a few years later:

interesting to see that the Hotel Mac originally had a nice garden in the back. Sometime later a parking lot was put in and then finally reverted back to a garden...

EdmTrekker · #**4633** Posted **Oct 5, 2018, 5:44 PM**

Looks like the picture shows the underground parkade ti the east was added before Thornton Court was constructed ... and while I am an Edmonton boy ... I don’t recall the sequence of that construction. KenC would you know? It interests me from a potential demolition perspective as to whether that ramp and parking below was ever structurally integrated into Thornton Place. Is that ramp and parkade still there now?