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That is awesome. Is that the little store at Seymour and Robson?
That's the one. I saw the painting on Canada Day and went back the next weekend to pick up a copy.
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I never realized how badly Sorel was ruined.
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Old Posted Jul 15, 2017, 8:00 PM
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Halifax skyline, 1835.


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I've stayed in that Ramada Inn years ago. Terrible experience.

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I think that's the first picture I've ever seen of Commerce Court U/C.
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Old Posted Jul 18, 2017, 4:29 AM
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Old Posted Jul 18, 2017, 1:44 PM
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^love that trainstation.

Sure beats Fallowfuckingfield.
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Griffintown (Montreal), c. 1900

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I had fun making some before-after comparisons for the town of SOREL, QC.
Seriously, every person that was responsible for so many bad decisions in one single city should be severely tortured. I believe my post could as well belong to the Ugly Canada thread...
Wow, I had no idea that Sorel was once so beautiful. What a disaster!
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Spadina Ave 1925 looking north from Fleet Street.
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Ontario Place....akin, in built form, to Toronto's answer to Montreal's Man-and-His-World (permanent exhibit succeeding the phenomenally successful Expo '67: http://www.worldsfairphotos.com/expo...and-his-world/)


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If there was an inflection point (zenith) of Montreal's heyday, it was the summer of 1967.
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Ontario Place looked crazy futuristic for its era, although I guess Canadians were used to seeing that sort of thing after Expo 67.
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^ Looks like Export and I were on the same page!

I know those Expo 67 pavilions weren't built to last, but it's too bad that a few more buildings couldn't have been preserved. Expo 67 was before my time but I always wish I could have had a chance to explore the buildings to get a feel for what it would have been like.
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Sorry guys, just realized I posted these in the wrong thread. Well they are kind of old skyline pics . It's funny how much the Cinesphere looked like Man-and-His-World before getting it's inner shell.

Side note, The Cinesphere was the first permanent IMAX theatre ever built and it featured a film called "Noth of Superior" when it opened.

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[IMG]CN Tower Construction by Jan, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2017, 5:38 PM
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Some old aerial photos (circa 1920's) of Halifax compared with Google 3D from 2016:



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Old Posted Jul 22, 2017, 7:41 PM
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Here's another one. I guess the original was taken in the 80's:

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Some old pictures of Penticton, BC in the Southern Okanagan Valley:

















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Almost all of the buildings in this picture from the late 20s in DT Windsor are long gone. You would never guess that this is the corner of Ouellette Ave. and Riverside Dr. (Formerly Sandwich Street), so sad!

http://archive.lostwindsor.com/2015/...llette-c-1928/

This scene however is still fully intact, surprisingly!

http://archive.lostwindsor.com/2016/...issier-c-1928/
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