Old Pics Of Hamilton - Page 34

ScreamingViking · #**661** Posted **Oct 21, 2014, 1:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

Any guesses?

Streetcar tracks and overhead wires? I'll gamble on Barton too but I have no idea which street it is. This 1930s era map would likely show the candidates.

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CaptainKirk · #**662** Posted **Oct 21, 2014, 8:37 PM**

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Between 1888 and 1895. Old City Hall opened in 1888 and can be seen in this photo so it has to be after that. The Hamilton Incline Railway was opened in 1895 but it isn't in the photo so it has to be before that.

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Dr Awesomesauce · #**663** Posted **Oct 22, 2014, 12:11 AM**

Anyone have a time machine?

CaptainKirk · #**664** Posted **Oct 22, 2014, 5:38 AM**

1943,

love the shot of the bus terminal

https://twitter.com/timofnewbury/sta...573440/photo/1

Dr Awesomesauce · #**665** Posted **Oct 22, 2014, 1:14 PM**

The Terminal Building. Another shameful demolition.

CaptainKirk · #**666** Posted **Oct 23, 2014, 2:18 PM**

James Street North, looking south from King William St., circa 1958 - facebook vintage Hamilton

CaptainKirk · #**667** Posted **Nov 1, 2014, 3:15 AM**

ScreamingViking · #**668** Posted **Nov 2, 2014, 2:15 AM**

The Plantation used to be on Hwy 53 right?

As a kid, I remember driving that way (before it became Rymal Rd.) on the first leg of the trip to Windsor, as well as to get to my Westinghouse Hotpoint minor hockey league games at the Ancaster doublerinks every Saturday.

bigguy1231 · #**669** Posted **Nov 2, 2014, 3:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

The Plantation used to be on Hwy 53 right?

As a kid, I remember driving that way (before it became Rymal Rd.) on the first leg of the trip to Windsor, as well as to get to my Westinghouse Hotpoint minor hockey league games at the Ancaster doublerinks every Saturday.

It was at Rymal and Upper Gage.

CaptainKirk · #**670** Posted **Nov 6, 2014, 2:36 AM**

Passing The Triton Hotel on Main Street West at MacNab, ca 1961

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CaptainKirk · #**671** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 4:32 AM**

ca 1961

York St., 1967

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Dr Awesomesauce · #**672** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

York St., 1967

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I've never seen this photo or any like it. I wish there were more of York before the 'renewal.'

ScreamingViking · #**673** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 3:06 AM**

A bustling street, that must have been.

Beedok · #**674** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 3:23 AM**

Now that was a serious mistake. The new York set up doesn't seem to have added anything. I'm for renewal if it renews, but that was just destruction.

matt602 · #**675** Posted **Nov 13, 2014, 10:25 AM**

Notice how the street is only one lane in each direction, with street parking. Even back then when there was significantly more traffic on downtown streets than today. Not the empty 4-6 lane one-way streets of today.

CaptainKirk · #**676** Posted **Nov 16, 2014, 10:11 PM**

Wentworth St. stairs 1955, facebook Vintage Hamilton

CaptainKirk · #**677** Posted **Nov 25, 2014, 2:03 PM**

Dr Awesomesauce · #**678** Posted **Nov 25, 2014, 9:59 PM**

^A few observations:
i) Mr Sub at the corner of King and Walnut;
ii) Ford Pinto - perhaps the worst car ever made; and
iii) The Hyland showing 'sexy' films?
The 70s rule.

matt602 · #**679** Posted **Nov 25, 2014, 10:25 PM**

How did a place showing films of that caliber go under? Sexy times for the hammer.

ScreamingViking · #**680** Posted **Nov 26, 2014, 1:54 AM**

I have no memory of the building on the southeast corner of King and Walnut (where Forbidden City is now) with its windows uncovered.

Also just realized the pawnbroker's "LOANS" sign of today is the Hyland's with different lettering.

First Place must have been quite new in that photo.