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^Great finds manny!
The Strathroy promo video is a fantastic piece of retro cheese! It must have not been too successful in attracting business, becuase as far as I know much of the industrial park on the 402 is still empty. I also liked how it showed the airport. Anybody know what cities London Airport had flights to back then? The announcer mentioned major cities in Canada and the States, but I assumed that the airport just had flights to Pearson, or Detroit up until the expansion. I know Air Ontario was based here until they were taken over by Air Canada Jazz.
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If I remember correctly, YXU only had flights to Toronto and maybe once a day to Detroit. It was a very limited airport back then compared to today.
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Originally Posted by Simpseatles
The CN Tower implosion was neat to see! Why exactly was it taken down? Were there structural problems? There's something about it I kinda like. It seemed like a half-decent modernist building, and what we have now is mediocre at best. Certainly looked like a better "box" than the nearby RBC building imo.
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As I recall, a lot of it had to do with the 2001 Canada Summer Games. It was felt (rightly) that the old VIA station was cramped and outdated, and that a new station was needed. VIA decided to stay on the same site instead of moving, so the old tower was demolished to make way for the new station that was supposed to be completed in time for the 2001 Summer Games.
The building had basically been abandoned (except for the VIA station on part of the ground floor) since the late 80s or early 90s. As I recall after One London Place was built, there was a large surplus of office space, and nobody wanted the CN building.
I was last in the building in 1999, and it seemed very run down and dated - even though it was only 24 years old.