A few more vintage aerials of Edmonton from Vintage Edmonton's FB page.
Circa 1971. The highrise u/c to the right of Chateau Lacombe (the round hotel tower by the river valley) is Edmonton House. Check out the smokestack in the far centre left - this was an incinerator
and a garbage dump - no, I am not joking!!!. The Muttart Conservatory sits there now. The bridge u/c in this pic is the James McDonald Bridge.
Not the most flattering vintage pic of Edmonton, I know. But this was the western limits of Edmonton's built-up areas in 1971. 170 St in this pic was the westernmost major street at the time. The long building at right and just east of 170 St is the Misericordia Hospital. Where's West Edmonton Mall? It wasn't even built until 1980! WEM is directly west across 170 St from the Misericorida, so there was practically nothing at the time of this pic.
The U of A main campus circa 1967. The U of A Hospital is off the frame to the left.
Downtown Edmonton during the mid to late 1950s. Quite of few of those buildings in this pic are now long gone. The old post office with the clock tower is now replaced by the Westin Hotel. The old courthouse (the yellowish building on the west side of 100 St) is now City Centre Mall East, which went up in around 1974 and was originally Edmonton Centre.
The Tegler Building in the far right was torn down in the early 1980s, and is now the site of the BOM building. The Hotel Macdonald Annex, the drab grey highrise right in front of the original Hotel Macdonald, was torn down in 1986 - a nice little park now sits there. The brown building and parking lot in the bottom left is now Churchill Square.