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Old Posted Aug 3, 2009, 12:51 PM
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I found this old pic. Wish it was bigger.

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^Nice find.

Its actually weird to me to see a photo of the Africville area from before the MacKay was built.
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Old Posted Aug 7, 2009, 5:52 PM
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I was looking through some old family albums and found these two photos. One is dated 1935 and the other I would guess was in the early '40's.



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Old Posted Oct 7, 2010, 1:30 AM
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Neat old Scotia Square ad. The complex had only been partially constructed at the time this was published, hence some of the towers looking different from their final form.

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Old Posted Oct 7, 2010, 1:54 AM
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Interesting rendering. Amazing how artist's conceptions of proposed developments always look so much better than the finished product. Certainly what was proposed looks better than the Cogswell Tower we ended up with, and the streetside looks far more appealing than it turned out to be. You can certainly understand why people wanted this back in the 60s based upon this, especially if you remember what was there previously.
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Yeah, I'm not sure the Scotia Square we know is this lush...



Does anyone have photos of the area prior to redevelopment?
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Yeah, the Cogswell Tower leaves a lot to be desired.

I actually like the older towers and, to some degree, the Barrington and Duke corner. If the Barrington Street frontage were opened up a little more it would function a lot better (you could imagine an open ground floor in this rendering with main doors and some storefronts, for example, with a glassed in area above). Maintaining the old street grid a little more still probably would have been better in the long run, however.
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Yeah, I'm not sure the Scotia Square we know is this lush...



Does anyone have photos of the area prior to redevelopment?
http://www.halifaxhistory.ca/other-photo.html

If you scroll to almost the bottom of this page there ia a photo of the corner of barrinton and Buckingham, and a map of the area where scotia square was built. the Halifax history site is interesting. Lots of old photos.
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Old Posted Nov 12, 2010, 7:59 PM
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Here's Gottingen Street in the 60s:


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Here's Gottingen Street in the 60s:


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Pretty impressive. If ever a street needed a redevelopment strategy; it's Gottingen.
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Old Posted Nov 12, 2010, 8:09 PM
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Unfortunately it had a redevelopment strategy from the 1950s-70s: tear down about half of the buildings, give some people cheap mortgages in areas like Sackville or Woodlawn, and build public housing for other people.

Clearly the area's not what it was in 1962 but it's been doing better lately.
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Old Posted Dec 25, 2010, 1:45 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1vLdnm7eFE

Neat Casino ad from the 80s. The spaces outside Maritime Mall and Quinpool Centre look better kept. What does the sign at 0:07 say? I am having trouble placing it because they must have removed a couple planters at some point, and because no entrance exists at that angle today. Is it where the Canadian Tire doors are? In the shots further on the whole stretch looks much better treed.
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I'm pretty sure the sign at 0:07 is for Quionpool Centre, I think that is shot near the Wendy's. I think the planters were only removed about 5 years ago.
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The addition on the (nowadays) Westin Hotel on Hollis Street. Photo cortesy of The Chronicle Herald Community News



This photo, published on May 14, 1959, informed readers about the "steadily mounting steel framework of the addition to the Nova Scotian Hotel." The original CN-owned hotel opened June 24, 1930. In 1966, the name changed to Hotel Nova Scotian. In 1981, CN sold it to Revenue Hotels and in 1989 the name changed to The Halifax Hilton when Hilton International took over management. It closed in 1993, then reopened on Dec. 1, 1996 as The Westin Nova Scotian.
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The addition on the (nowadays) Westin Hotel on Hollis Street. Photo cortesy of The Chronicle Herald Community News
Nice pic. I wish that South Street and Marginal Road lined up though
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Old Posted Feb 7, 2011, 1:00 AM
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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?
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I have been trying to find information about the image posted above by someone123 since I didn't know that there was such an elaborate gate at the Public Gardens. While looking through the Nova Scotia Archive images I came across the one below which is dated 1899 and is of an exhibition hall/rink that was at Tower Road and Morris Street. Does anyone know when this rink was demolished?

"Carnival, Old Exhibition Rink, Feb. 1899" (source: http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/h...ives.asp?ID=62 )


PS: It was the Exhibition Building which could also be used as a rink. here is another image - http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/n...ves.asp?ID=160

PS: In the image above, it looks like the photographer just superimposed images on top of a picture of the exhibition hall. At least one of the images (pirate costumed man) looks like one that I saw in another archived studio image from 1899. It is eerie looking at these old photos - the people are like ghosts who passed away long go.

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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?
Very nice. My guess is this would have been midway along that block, approximately across from the Paramount Apartments. Its too bad they didn't take some of the money donated/raised post-Juan to build a replica of this gate. I really like walking that section of South Park on summer nights, with the Gardens, lampposts and Lord Nelson lit up. It feels like Central Park at night.
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Old Posted Feb 7, 2011, 4:25 PM
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Wow! I had no idea that gate ever existed. It would be awesome if they rebuilt it. Would give a more majestic quality to the gardens.
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Old Posted Feb 8, 2011, 1:01 PM
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Very nice. My guess is this would have been midway along that block, approximately across from the Paramount Apartments. Its too bad they didn't take some of the money donated/raised post-Juan to build a replica of this gate. I really like walking that section of South Park on summer nights, with the Gardens, lampposts and Lord Nelson lit up. It feels like Central Park at night.
The gate was no doubt across the street from the childhood home of Hugh MacLennan, 'Barometer Rising'. He lived there at the time of the explosion. The house is now gone, of course.
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