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bomberjet · #**6121** Posted **Jun 21, 2019, 5:54 PM**

I wonder if the crane operators have secret games. It's like an exclusive club in the sky.

Where they post notes inside there windows, so when you look real close through a lens, they're calling you a dipshit. haha or shine lasers into each others eyes.

Lots of lasers recently.

Winnipeg Grump · #**6122** Posted **Jun 21, 2019, 6:49 PM**

Build-a-Crane has left the building.

We're going to need a proper Construction Cam at some point...

optimusREIM · #**6123** Posted **Jun 21, 2019, 7:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Winnipeg Grump

Build-a-Crane has left the building.

We're going to need a proper Construction Cam at some point...

Definitely will. Looking at this photo though, was this supposed to include a couple levels of underground parking? I totally forget.

Having those cranes there is a beautiful sight though

dmacc · #**6124** Posted **Jun 21, 2019, 7:21 PM**

I believe its 2-3 levels of parking but at least 2 levels are above ground.

bomberjet · #**6125** Posted **Jun 21, 2019, 7:48 PM**

I think there is 3 levels underground for the hotel, accessible from the main entrance on hargrave. then there is an above ground level, accessible of St. mary for the long term stay part. Something like that anyways. Maybe it's flip flopped in terms of the levels.

Wpg_Guy · #**6126** Posted **Jun 21, 2019, 9:39 PM**

1 Underground 3 above.

Spocket · #**6127** Posted **Jun 22, 2019, 3:21 AM**

I can't believe there are 5 cranes along that corridor (Main to Colony bounded by Graham and St. Mary) I can't remember the last time there were more than 2 cranes at all in Winnipeg, never mind so many so close to each other. When will the Wawanesa building get started?

I guess with all the TIE fighters making their occasional forays into the city, we're just going to have to get used to rebuilding.

BAKGUY · #**6128** Posted **Jun 22, 2019, 3:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

I think there is 3 levels underground for the hotel, accessible from the main entrance on hargrave. then there is an above ground level, accessible of St. mary for the long term stay part. Something like that anyways. Maybe it's flip flopped in terms of the levels.

The Sutton Place Hotel & Residences is bound by Carlton and Backlane shared with Edmonton. Hargrave is the block ahead of Carlton

optimusREIM · #**6129** Posted **Jun 24, 2019, 1:13 PM**

Man that cladding sure went up fast. I'm guessing it could be done by the end of the day meaning the whole thing will have taken only a few days

Wpg_Guy · #**6130** Posted **Jun 24, 2019, 2:10 PM**

Live cams

esquire · #**6131** Posted **Jun 24, 2019, 4:23 PM**

Cool throwback pic of the TNS site a century ago:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9513047@N05/48109946033/in/photostream/

(I don't know how to display the actual pic itself)

Wpg_Guy · #**6132** Posted **Jun 24, 2019, 4:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Cool throwback pic of the TNS site a century ago:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9513047@N05/48109946033/in/photostream/

(I don't know how to display the actual pic itself)

esquire · #**6133** Posted **Jun 24, 2019, 4:46 PM**

^ Thanks!

Winnipeg Grump · #**6134** Posted **Jun 24, 2019, 5:01 PM**

TNS 2 sidewalk work on Graham and Hargrave almost done.

DLLB · #**6135** Posted **Jun 26, 2019, 1:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Cool throwback pic of the TNS site a century ago:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9513047@N05/48109946033/in/photostream/

(I don't know how to display the actual pic itself)

WOW, what a change.

That is one of the best collections of old Winnipeg pictures I have ever seen.

optimusREIM · #**6136** Posted **Jun 26, 2019, 1:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by DLLB

WOW, what a change.

That is one of the best collections of old Winnipeg pictures I have ever seen.

Totally agree. But man some of the stuff that got torn down. It's a crime! Last comment: the trams running up and down Portage and along main, crazy to think that existed. I swear we've regressed since the 50s

EspionNoir · #**6137** Posted **Jun 26, 2019, 1:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by optimusREIM

Totally agree. But man some of the stuff that got torn down. It's a crime! Last comment: the trams running up and down Portage and along main, crazy to think that existed. I swear we've regressed since the 50s

Next time we build "trams" under the ground or above!

Andy6 · #**6138** Posted **Jun 26, 2019, 1:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

That was Carlton School, with the Catholic school in the background across from St. Mary’s, where the Delta hotel is now. Carlton School didn’t last very long. I believe it was gone by the end of the 1920s.

Winnipeg Grump · #**6139** Posted **Jun 26, 2019, 1:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by optimusREIM

Totally agree. But man some of the stuff that got torn down. It's a crime! Last comment: the trams running up and down Portage and along main, crazy to think that existed. I swear we've regressed since the 50s

Some good info on the old streetcar network here:
http://www.tundria.com/trams/CAN/Winnipeg-1941.shtml

and here:
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/streetcar-tracks-a-peek-into-winnipegs-past-486060981.html

215 kms of streetcar at it's peak!!

All ripped up after lobbying from the car companies and oil and gas industry.

buzzg · #**6140** Posted **Jun 26, 2019, 2:05 PM**

Sickening