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Originally Posted by kirjtc2
There used to be a parking garage in downtown Halifax (since torn down) that had an indoor gas station on the ground floor.
Can't find a pic of the actual gas station, but the parking garage itself is still worthy of this thread:
http://www.halifaxhistory.ca/Texpark.htm |
This site has its own Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texpark_site
I was pretty young when the TexPark gas station still existed but I remember going there a couple of times. Back then there were a few other buildings along Hollis Street that were later torn down for the MetroPark, which was the TexPark replacement (only moderately less ugly). At the time, parking was seen as central to redevelopment efforts, and a lot of people argued that you couldn't have retail without tons of free parking.
I am not entirely sure why but this part of downtown seriously decayed starting in the 1950's or 60's. There were no big redevelopment projects, but the old buildings slowly disappeared over time. This TexPark block and the blocks around it used to be mostly 4-5 storey commercial and mixed use buildings (many people used to live in lowrise apartments above storefronts and offices, like in European cities, but that was discouraged by postwar planners) from the 19th century but practically no evidence of that survives.
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It's so Middle Eastern, but with North American materials. 
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