[Photos] Historic and Old Images
I've seen many old pictures floating around of the city, I thought it would be nice to have them in one place :D, could you post any older pictures you have come across including the date (or an approx.) and I could string them together eventually in chronological order :D
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If you get the street cars back... Mayor for life. You'll be the King Danny of municipal politics.
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From the Canadian Skylines of the Past thread:
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE the old pictures!!!
look at this one which is on display in the Anglican Cathedral (it's leganary) I took a pic of it a couple of years ago as the story goes, a Man dies during the construction of the Cathedral and when it was done all the workers gathered for a photo in front of the finished product, and the man who couldn't make it in body definitely made it in spirit! as you can see to the left https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n..._3177088_n.jpg |
I got the same story on my visit there. I assume it's just that it was a long exposure and he left? Or a double exposure?
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I love how Battery Road seems like a sensible street in this shot:
http://i.imgur.com/VOJtb.jpg How high up did it go back then? It looks almost like it went up and connected with Signal Hill Road even back then. |
Notice we were driving on the left side ;)
http://i.imgur.com/UXQfC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pCTg2.jpg then BAM now we don't ;) http://i.imgur.com/48I61.jpg |
*Sniff* :)
I want all of this back sssooo badly. |
I love all these old pictures! Reviving the street cars would be amazing! What would be awesome (but isn't really possible) would be to eliminate streetside parking on water street and have two lanes of traffic like there is now, but with the extra room we would have space for a streetcar lane in the middle.
Another thing I would love is to revive the cobblestone streets! But sadly that is not possible due to snowclearing. There would be no way to plow it. It would probably be difficult to do snow clearing with streetcar tracks as well. But we did it in the past so maybe it's possible, I don't know |
All I got to say is Thank God, I was not born in that area, good grief.
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It looked a bit messier in that era but the downtown was the center of all things and there were few ugly new buildings, only ugly old ones. I think it looks better now than before there was any development; the tallest building in the west end was the post office. While the downtown still looked like it did pre 1970's, all new development was concentrated in the newer areas of the city, nobody wanted to invest in anything new downtown back then. |
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I took a few of some of the old photographs hanging at the Celtic Hearth on Water Street yesterday.
A great one from 1870: http://i48.tinypic.com/k99j5e.jpg Immediately after the Great Fire of 1892. I wish I'd had my real camera. The actual picture is of a high enough quality that you can actually tell the woman in this carriage is hot AND that she has soot on her clothes. http://i46.tinypic.com/hv2pnd.jpg And a panorama of the city, immediately after the fire: http://i50.tinypic.com/2i7mxvn.jpg One of the many buildings from that era that are no longer with us: Quote:
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wow the great fire ones are fascinating!
I was wondering if anyone has any old pictures inside the avalon mall? or the village mall from years ago? |
I think I have mentioned this on here before, but for anyone who doesn't know, there are archives down on the 3rd floor of the Railway Coastal Museum. There are accessible to the public and they have binders and binders of old photographs that you can look at. You just can't check anything out, for obvious reasons, but they allow you to sit in and have a look. Something cool to do if you are bored some day.
http://www.stjohns.ca/living-st-john...hives-holdings Also, you can get prints of whatever photos you like for a small fee. I have two posted on the wall in my house that I think I payed like $20 each for. One is just after the great fire and other of St. John's taken from the southside of the Harbour in like 1890 or somewhere around then. |
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Who the hell changed the way the Harbour Front was laid out......if they had left it like that it would be so much easier to re-develop and densify. |
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