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Originally Posted by Keith P.
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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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.