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Old Posted Mar 13, 2011, 11:10 PM
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I found this one while watching. Nice shot of a busy Barrington St.
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Old Posted Mar 13, 2011, 11:52 PM
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There are several other interesting clips on YouTube. This one shows Africville and aerial views of north Halifax prior to the construction of the MacKay Bridge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8kn...eature=related

PS: Also one from the 1930's - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlZ4H...eature=related
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Old Posted Mar 14, 2011, 12:25 AM
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That makes you realize what a building boom happened in peninsular Halifax in the '60s and early '70s, and how little has happened since.
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Old Posted Mar 14, 2011, 3:49 AM
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That makes you realize what a building boom happened in peninsular Halifax in the '60s and early '70s, and how little has happened since.
I was struck by that too. When those two videos were made, a lot of the ugly modernist buildings from the era were already in place including the IWK, Victoria General, Park Victoria etc. It wasn't until the camera man went up on the Citadel that it showed significant change since the Cogswell and Scotia Square were under construction and the only bank tower that was up was Royal. A few sad shots in there as it showed the Birks Jewelery store and its neighbours which were turned into vacant lots and have sat empty for two decades. Ditto for some of the small older buildings fronting Brunswick along the Citadel. Many of those were torn down to be replaced with ashfault.
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wow thats it is very cool ,It's too bad alot of those areas weren't preserved properly, if it had there could have been an area similar to old Montreal.
None the less they didn't so let's modernize DT!
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Old Posted Mar 27, 2011, 6:55 PM
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Has anybody seen the Facebook group "Historic Halifax - Then and Now"? They overlay a bunch of images where buildings used to be on recent pics.

Its pretty cool... but also goes to show that the majority of loss of heritage happened years ago.
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Old Posted Mar 27, 2011, 9:43 PM
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Has anybody seen the Facebook group "Historic Halifax - Then and Now"? They overlay a bunch of images where buildings used to be on recent pics.

Its pretty cool... but also goes to show that the majority of loss of heritage happened years ago.

It also goes to show how delusional so many of the people commenting are - calling some of the city's worst slums "beautiful" and calling all new buildings "ugly". The divide between the HT types who think every ramshackle run-down wooden building needs to be saved and those who want this city to progress and grow simply never seems to change.
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Old Posted Mar 28, 2011, 1:47 AM
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It also goes to show how delusional so many of the people commenting are - calling some of the city's worst slums "beautiful" and calling all new buildings "ugly". The divide between the HT types who think every ramshackle run-down wooden building needs to be saved and those who want this city to progress and grow simply never seems to change.
Lol, someone should develop a "Keith P." app for smartphones that just spits fury about the obstructionist crowd. Like a soundboard style, maybe with the "computer voice". What is the derivation of the term ramshackle?
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Old Posted Mar 28, 2011, 2:20 PM
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Has anybody seen the Facebook group "Historic Halifax - Then and Now"? They overlay a bunch of images where buildings used to be on recent pics.

Its pretty cool... but also goes to show that the majority of loss of heritage happened years ago.
I've been part of that for a while. It's a great little group. I can see why people would have fought for more heritage conservation. We have lost some amazing buildings in this city. But to at least a small degree I agree with Keith P. We have already lost most of the nice stuff. It's not worth fighting for every little thing, let alone the parking lots. lol
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Some footage of Halifax from the 30's.

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Very cool. At 2:20 of that video, while showing the town clock, I think a fire truck rolls through the foreground.

The grounds around the Citadel seemed much busier and interesting back then too. I wonder if it was an active military installation?
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I wonder if it was an active military installation?
I believe it was, I think it was only turned over to parks Canada sometime after WWII.
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A photograph of the first bridge to cross Halifax Harbour. Note the swing section near the Dartmouth shoreline. Built in 1884.

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/halifax/busti..._myths-eng.php
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Video of Halifax from 1946: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_mS...eature=related

Interesting too see how busy the downtown looked, specially with all the trams.
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Old Posted Oct 10, 2011, 10:12 PM
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Video of Halifax from 1946: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_mS...eature=related

Interesting too see how busy the downtown looked, specially with all the trams.
Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
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Old Posted Oct 11, 2011, 6:50 AM
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Video of Halifax from 1946: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_mS...eature=related

Interesting too see how busy the downtown looked, specially with all the trams.
That is a great find. I have to agree about how busy it looked with all the traffic and the trams.. and interesting to note that crossing the street at spring garden and grafton was just as annoying then as it is now lol

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Here's an interesting photo from the NS archives. The title says that it shows the South Park gates of the Public Gardens:


(you can see it in more detail using a flash plugin at http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/n...ves.asp?ID=693)

I never knew that this structure existed. Does anybody know anything about it, like the date of its construction or demolition? Is the title of the photo even correct?
This is something that should be rebuilt.
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Old Posted Nov 23, 2011, 1:19 AM
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Why would they demolish that? Makes me very very angry.
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Why would they demolish that? Makes me very very angry.
It was too tall.
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Yeah it probably caused traffic problems and cast dark shadows over the gardens, and if it got any taller it might start eating children or something
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