In Vike's video, the street is filled with people..
All of my life, (and i'm 30 years old), downtown Winnipeg has been abandoned, boarded up, and crime ridden..
People of my generation (generation Y [1980 - 2001]), have only known a decayed and downtrodden Winnipeg; Biff's alternate 1984 to use a Back to the Future reference.
My parents, and 85 year old grandfather talk about a time when men would wear a hat and dress up like 'Elliot Ness' (to use my grandfather's terms), to hop a streetcar, and go for dinner at the Shanghai, or shop on Selkirk Ave.
It's interesting to think of a different time, and imagine about what could be.
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Last edited by Only The Lonely..; Feb 12, 2012 at 1:06 AM.
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