Historical Winnipeg discussion - Page 128

Andy6 · #**2541** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 2:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

30 yrs ago yesterday the forks was announced

I'm always amazed at all the things that happened after I left Winnipeg!

At first, The Forks was just the river walkway ... everyone was thrilled with that. The market and other buildings came a bit later.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**2542** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 10:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

30 yrs ago yesterday the forks was announced

That sign is way older than 30 years.

Was it really 1988? I used to climb on top of all those buildings when it was just an abandoned rail yard. Could have been early 80s though.

esquire · #**2543** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 2:20 PM**

Cool 1956 photo of a lively-looking Portage Avenue

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9513047@N05/29926943688/

I swear if someone runs a mayoral campaign while wearing a hat that says "MAKE PORTAGE GREAT AGAIN" they will have my vote...

Urban recluse · #**2544** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 2:29 PM**

Sigh. What was eh?

Jeff · #**2545** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 6:47 PM**

those old signs *sighhhhh*

Urban recluse · #**2546** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 7:25 PM**

Right????

Wolf13 · #**2547** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 9:55 PM**

I know

Curmudgeon · #**2548** Posted **Aug 22, 2018, 5:12 PM**

It was still the only significant retail area for the 400,000+ people in Greater Winnipeg.

Polo Park was still a few years away from opening and Garden City, Unicity, St. Vital, Kildonan Place and the south Kenaston area were decades away.

Also, the inner city had not yet entered demographic and social decline. The old City of Winnipeg has now lost fully one third of its peak census population of 265,420 recorded in 1961.

Case study in the doughnut effect, perhaps the best (or worst) example with respect to Canadian cities, but certainly nowhere near the effects experienced in American cities such as Detroit, St. Louis or Cleveland.

HomeInMyShoes · #**2549** Posted **Aug 22, 2018, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Cool 1956 photo of a lively-looking Portage Avenue

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9513047@N05/29926943688/

I swear if someone runs a mayoral campaign while wearing a hat that says "MAKE PORTAGE GREAT AGAIN" they will have my vote...

What on earth are those pedestrians doing in the middle of the intersection?!?!? They'll be killed!!!

Andy6 · #**2550** Posted **Aug 22, 2018, 6:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

What on earth are those pedestrians doing in the middle of the intersection?!?!? They'll be killed!!!

The number of pedestrian accidents and deaths in those days, particularly relating to streetcars, would shock you. Accidents and injuries were accepted as a normal part of life in a way that seems quite alien today.

esquire · #**2551** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 2:20 PM**

Here's an interesting photo of the old Winnipeg Stadium when it was still brand new. Winnipeg Arena would follow a couple of years later.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9513047@N05/44096422175/

It was a pretty architecturally modest and utilitarian stadium right from day one. No architectural flourishes at all are evident from the picture... just two simple uncovered grandstands and a field.

Urban recluse · #**2552** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 4:11 PM**

I would give anything to be able to travel back in time to enter this store as it was...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/951304...8RwDau-28JyWBR

buzzg · #**2553** Posted **Sep 30, 2018, 9:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urban recluse

I would give anything to be able to travel back in time to enter this store as it was...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/951304...8RwDau-28JyWBR

Wow I never knew that the entrance was so "grand" like that. You don't get a sense of that at all with the way the top half is covered, and the feeling the overhang gives. It'd be cool to see it restored with awnings again.

Urban recluse · #**2554** Posted **Oct 1, 2018, 12:25 AM**

That would be amazing.

esquire · #**2555** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 8:00 PM**

Nice pic of the Grace Methodist Church which until the late 1950s, stood at Notre Dame and Ellice, on what is now the parking triangle opposite the Burt.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/951304...in/dateposted/

Urban recluse · #**2556** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 8:02 PM**

Great find.

EndoftheBeginning · #**2557** Posted **Oct 30, 2018, 9:15 PM**

Always liked the facade on this one - MTS telephone exchange building at 166 Portage Ave East. Depression-era construction (1930-31). Some photos from the historical report below.

Some other exchanges also highlighted in the historical report.

Andy6 · #**2558** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 12:43 AM**

74 Charlotte Street is now 474 Hargrave Street.

It is interesting that several of the streets in the alphabetical series of women's names lost those names as a result of consolidation with the better-known streets that ran into them from south of Notre Dame:

Charlotte > Hargrave
Margaretta > Furby
Nena > Sherbrook

But others didn't do this, e.g. Carlton and Ellen, Donald and Princess (not a lady's name, exactly, but part of the same grid).

I wonder if Charlotte, Nena and Margaretta were changed all at once and why it went no further.

TimeFadesAway · #**2559** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:18 PM**

Looking at old maps, it looks like Margaretta dead-ended before Notre Dame, so didn't connect with Furby at one point. Similarly, Hargrave didn't extend past Cumberland and Charlotte ended at Notre Dame. I imagine those streets were renamed when they were joined up.

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Originally Posted by Andy6

74 Charlotte Street is now 474 Hargrave Street.

It is interesting that several of the streets in the alphabetical series of women's names lost those names as a result of consolidation with the better-known streets that ran into them from south of Notre Dame:

Charlotte > Hargrave
Margaretta > Furby
Nena > Sherbrook

But others didn't do this, e.g. Carlton and Ellen, Donald and Princess (not a lady's name, exactly, but part of the same grid).

I wonder if Charlotte, Nena and Margaretta were changed all at once and why it went no further.

wardlow · #**2560** Posted **Oct 31, 2018, 1:53 PM**

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