Found Photos

[JET]

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/n...nguage=English

zoom in, you can see the entire top of Citadel Hill !

[cormiermax]

Nice picture!

[JET]

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/n...nguage=English

nice shot of old dartmouth, a BIG ballfield where the holiday inn is, and a big ship at the marine slips.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by JET

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/n...nguage=English

neat, because you can zoom in to see the signs and houses off pleasant st

The caption says "Commercial St.", but I know of no such street in Dartmouth. It looks like the bottom of Portland St to me. Regardless, it is pretty old-school.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by JET

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/n...nguage=English

nice shot of old dartmouth, a BIG ballfield where the holiday inn is, and a big ship at the marine slips.

Surprising how little things have actually changed in 50 years. Aside from the Holiday Inn/Metropolitan Place, and the Sportsplex replacing the Dartmouth Arena, not much is different (although the Dartmouth Shopping Ctr had quality stores back then).

[hfx_chris]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

The caption says "Commercial St.", but I know of no such street in Dartmouth. It looks like the bottom of Portland St to me. Regardless, it is pretty old-school.

That would be Alderney Drive today, with Dartmouth Cove straight ahead.
Alderney Gate would be on the right side of the street today. Jacobsons on the left is around the Alderney/Portland intersection, you can see the new RBC building and Nieforth Furniture up on the left side, and the trees of the Dartmouth Common in the foreground.

[Dmajackson]

These are essentially the "leftover" photos from my phototour today;

[fenwick16]

I enjoyed your photos. Could you tell me when the Crofton Uniacke House was built? It looks like an interesting building.

[Keith P.]

We need much tougher laws to let the cops toss graffiti vandals into jail. Halifax has a huge problem with this defacement.

[City_of_Lakes]

does anyone know where one can find pictures during the construction of purdy's wharf and 1801 hollis, etc.?

[Dmajackson]

I'm really starting to be fond of the historical photos in the community herald every week. For example here's this week. Its of the Beverbank Interchange.



And this one of the Ralston building site on Barrington from the 1950's.

[Keith P.]

I don't think that is the Ralston Bldg site. For one thing, it is on Hollis, not Barrington, and for another, it is very close to Salter St., which is not apparent in that photo.

[Dmajackson]

^Well this was the description provided;

The vacant lot at the left of this photo is all that remained of the Queen Hotel, which had burned down sometime betore this shot was taken in the 1950s. The federal government was considering building a "new, modern federal building" at a cost of more than $1.5 million on the site of the fire and the property occupied by the then-condemned Halifax Hotel. If both sites were used, the building was to occupy more than two-thirds of the Hollis Street block between Sackville and Salter streets. Construction on the Ralston Building began in 1954

[someone123]

Yeah, that picture is of Hollis Street. The hotel burned down in 1939 though, and judging from those cars I think the photo was taken around that time.

There's an HRM page on the hotel fire: http://www.halifax.ca/archives/QueenHotelFire.html

Too bad that stretch of Hollis wasn't better preserved (Sackville to Bishop).

[cormiermax]

Originally Posted by City_of_Lakes

does anyone know where one can find pictures during the construction of purdy's wharf and 1801 hollis, etc.?

Yeah that would be great, Iv never seen any before.

[Keith P.]

I found these interesting... shots of the interior of the Green Lantern restaurant circa 1941, courtesy of the NS Archives. This was on the main floor of the Green Lantern Building, better known as the Keith Building, on Barrington. This is the present site of Pogue Fado. I'd rather have this:

[someone123]

I saw those too. It is a different style but not terribly unlike a similar sort of place today. It would be interesting to see the old menus and prices.

[Novalea]

Wow, thanks for posting those Green Lantern pics - my grandmother used to work there during WWII.

[Dmajackson]

These are the random photos from my phototour yesterday. Apparently I managed to walk a whopping 10.9km without stopping;

[mcmcclassic]

It's funny you went on a picture taking walkabout the other day, because I was doing the exact same thing. I got home and was going to upload some of my photos to SSP and noticed you beat me to it. Btw, nice pics of the Rowe Building.