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Old Posted Jun 28, 2014, 3:23 AM
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Is this still a skyline thread? Seems a bit hit or miss lately.
Absolutely - but past skylines. That can be the recent past, quite recent for cities that have boomed such as Calgary and Toronto, or the more distant past, when skylines were largely limited to church spires.

Many forumers have also included with their posts interesting past photos that aren't exactly skylines, such as maps of Montreal, close-up Toronto street scenes, newspaper clippings, etc. Before/after comparisons are also very popular, with the after shots, obviously, not being from the past.

You're more than welcome to contribute.
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Birds eye map of Kingston from the 1870s.
Hamilton has a bird's eye view map just like that one...


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Old Posted Jun 28, 2014, 6:48 AM
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Cheers for the lesson on what constitutes a skyline.

I'm still a bit confused, however. Is this a skyline?
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This one may be my favorite historic photo of Calgary. Taken sometime in the mid 80s.


http://www.terragalleria.com/black-w...b10777-bw.html
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Cheers for the lesson on what constitutes a skyline.

I'm still a bit confused, however. Is this a skyline?
No - nor are the maps in the post directly above yours.

Nor are many of the other pictures throughout the thread, such as this one:


http://deantiquate.blog.yorku.ca/201...withhelpofcca/

Most people don't let it bother them. They enjoy the added insight. It helps enrich and expand their understanding of the past skylines they're seeing. I, for example, had no idea Toronto used to get as decked out as us for British-related events before this thread.

But, I mean... I can go through and delete every single picture that does not show a proper skyline from every single post in the thread if that's what everyone wants? It'll take a few hours, but I'll do it.
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A few of Gustav Anderson's photos from Memorial University's archives. This guy was a brilliant photographer - his photos, especially those of rural Newfoundland, are amazing. Beautifully composed. And his portraiture is the best I've seen from this part of the world. He has several easily as engaging as the Great Depression mother.

If you're able to determine whether he photographed your part of the world, do check out any he did from there. It'll be spectacular.

Here are a few of his shots from around St. John's in 1945, immediately after WWII and just a few years before Confederation with Canada.










The Central Slum still existed, and this photo below wasn't even part of it, it was just getting close to that area. In the 1950s, it was all bulldozed, Water Street and New Gower Street were widened to four lanes, and this is where virtually all of the modern buildings (from City Hall to Fortis) in the Downtown West exist today.

The city actually never intended to lose all of the beautiful mixed-use buildings that lined both sides of Water and New Gower, but when the slum residences were bulldozed, there were no people to shop in them and the area declined. It was only then that it was modernized, unfortunately.



Signal Hill was finally being blasted to bring a road out to the Battery neighbourhood.







We were still driving on the left.



And, during his visit, voila:

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Cheers for the lesson on what constitutes a skyline.

I'm still a bit confused, however. Is this a skyline?

We don't have an all-purpose thread for historic photos, so this thread serves that role. Far more interesting than having nothing but skylines, I'd say.
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Amazing!
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Amazing!
Didn't change that much since then...

(Which obviously can be seen as a positive thing or a negative one, depending on one's personal tastes in urbanism and architecture.)
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When I have some time I should make some before-and-after photos of Kingston. Judging from most of the historic photos I've seen, most downtown blocks look almost identical to the way they did a hundred years ago.

That's not to say its static, though. Many of the poorer areas looked a lot different 100 years ago, as they had lots of wood houses that were either clad with siding or torn down and rebuilt entirely (often as apartment buildings) during the 1920s through 1960s. The wealthier areas closer to the university are very well preserved though as their housing stock was mostly brick to begin with.
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Stampede Parade, 1923

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I found the little flatiron style building on the bottom right to be one of the best patios in the old city. It was a challenge to find a spot where you were allowed to sit on a patio for a few hours and only drink. This place was a little out of the way, but between the farmers market down the street, the handful of near misses at the five way intersection there was more than enough going on to keep you entertained....even with having to look at a gas station across the street.
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^Didn't change that much since then...
Yeah it's a rare historic view of Calgary where most of those buildings are still intact.
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All from Vintage St. John's.

Water Street, early 1970s:



1959, Queen Elizabeth II visiting the city claimed for Queen Elizabeth I:



1941, American servicemen and Newfoundland women at a dance. Some of these same couples died in the Knights of Columbus Fire - Germans set fire to the building, which was broadcasting a dance live on the radio. 99 American men and Newfoundland women died as their families listened. It was the deadliest German attack on St. John's during WWII, and the second-deadliest attack on Newfoundland. My Aunt Ruth, who moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1945, almost went with her now husband.



A WTF from Harvey Road. I thought it was a horse path in the 40s. I had NO idea there was ANYTHING there.



How the Americans used to advertise visiting Canada and Newfoundland in 1918:



One of the ships, the Florizel, later sunk off Cappahayden, Newfoundland. The book "Wreck of the Florizel" is mandatory reading in elementary school in Newfoundland.
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This one may be my favorite historic photo of Calgary. Taken sometime in the mid 80s.


http://www.terragalleria.com/black-w...b10777-bw.html
That would be ~ 1986-1987: new spire on the Calgary Tower. The presence or absence of Canterra or Bankers East would mail it down precisely, but can't tell from that view.
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