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raisethehammer · #21 Posted: **Jan 17, 2008, 3:47 AM**

awesome job flar! I love this city. where is picture 28 and what is going on?? is that house being reno'd? looks like new windows etc....
And where is picture 53?? looks awesome.

that second set of pics makes me miss summer....and that's saying something because I LOVE winter!

mrherodotus · #22 Posted: **Jan 17, 2008, 4:25 AM**

Very enjoyable thread.

LikeHamilton · #23 Posted: **Jan 17, 2008, 5:13 AM**

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I grew up in that house on the corner with the awful blue post. Believe it or not but that house had large maple in front and one at the side of the house. There was one next door and they all had lawns in front. We move in the fall of 67 just before they cut everything down and turned it into a freeway. It was a nice neighbourhood back then. The guy behind us was a DJ at CKOC and all of the girls in neighbourhood had a crush on him.

flar · #24 Posted: **Jan 17, 2008, 11:00 PM**

^^ I would have loved to see these neighbourhoods in the 60's!

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Originally Posted by raisethehammer

awesome job flar! I love this city. where is picture 28 and what is going on?? is that house being reno'd? looks like new windows etc....
And where is picture 53?? looks awesome.

#28 has looked like that for at least a year, I don't think it's a reno. #53 is at Sherman & Cannon I think.

These are definitely the neighbourhoods that made me fall in love with the city, they are rare in Canada. I could walk these streets all day, in fact I did for these pics and I didn't even make it halfway across the city. These pics cover nearly 200 blocks in Beasely, Landsdale, Gibson, Stipley and Crown Point and I've barely explored the city past Ottawa St.

big T · #25 Posted: **Jan 18, 2008, 3:55 AM**

Man what a thread.
Your love for the area really shows -- and it's contagious. It's always a pleasure to see your photos.

CCF · #26 Posted: **Jan 18, 2008, 5:33 AM**

Very neat. Thanks for sharing.

flar · #27 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 5:20 PM**

Thanks all

The other thing I was going to mention here is that this area looks extra dirty because there was snow on the ground a couple weeks ago which melted and left a mess. I'm not going to lie to you though, much of this area is normally dirty. The city really doesn't give a damn about it, and a lot of Hamiltonians would just as soon see it all demolished.