I just went back home for a little while (kept my apt in Van and will return later) and could not resist checking out Canada's Tropical Playground for myself, since I was passing near.
Even the sun on the welcome sign looks scorching...
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This is kind of the main street. It is (and I'm not making this up) named
Pacific Street. This is where all the tropical oceanfront real estate is located.
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There might be a decent building hiding under that brown industrial siding. Looks old enough (the side is a stone wall) and in the next post, you'll see evidence that it's likely two older buildings merged into one.
(Would explain the architectural imbalance between the two sad little windows on one side (Building A) and no windows on the Building B side.)
The yellow building (vacant) was for sale. I obviously had to look it up.
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...ve-maple-creek
...... honestly, I'd pass unless the seller removes a zero from the price.
You'll also note the temperature (+16C). No, it's not photoshopped. "Colder than Alaska?" Probably.
In all fairness, it was early morning
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This little black Civic coupe visible in the pic, bought for a song in Vancouver, just took me home to Eastern Quebec averaging <6L/100km over the 5000 km of the trip. More info about it is available in another SSP thread
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This is where the other main street begins, Jasper street (starts to the left of the pic). There's that huge silo building right there, on the other side of the street - so one side of the "downtown" is basically a giant parking.
According to the mural posted in the other post (full size), this parking lot used to be full of train tracks. Feels weird to have buildings on one side only, though it's exotic a bit, in a quite Western way.
These three pics are from turning slightly right, there was no way to capture this otherwise.
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This is Jasper St, the other commercial street.
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I'm posting the last pic as a separate post because it's in original size and would mess up this post otherwise. That mural is somewhat interesting, you can recognize individual buildings. That's how I know the brown POS building from earlier is two older ones merged together... It also tells us the downtown was one street wall only, with open train tracks across the street.
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