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Old Posted Aug 26, 2008, 3:05 PM
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Hamilton Aerial Photos now Online!

McMaster University has digitized thier aerial photo collection, and placed it online.

http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/airphotos/1919.htm

(Thanks to this, I've been able to identify the location of several of the older photos on my website, and improve my old streetcar and radial maps)
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2008, 3:57 PM
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Wow, we have a lot of catching up to do to get the downtown back to the vibrancy of 1919. I wonder how the history books will remember this very short time period (1950's-present) of 1-way streets / pedestrians play chicken in the roads / single occupancy vehicles. I imagine it won't be very positive.
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I can't seem to get anything to work besides 1919 and a handful of others, the rest have no link for an image.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2008, 4:48 PM
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i was at this site very recently wondering why the offline archives weren't digitized.

i am really excited about this
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im getting some strange results with it right now.. clicking on a link around mud st. but its giving me a photo of rosedale (1943 set)
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Have you guys seen the old videos available at History and Heritage on James N? I bought the 1946 video "Portrait of a City." It's awesome.
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no, but i think ill be picking that up, thanks for the tip
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Didn't know there were videos offered there as well. I'll have to go back in soon.
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i have been on this site every spare internet moment ive had today... i love. its filling in a lot of blanks for me

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Old Posted Aug 27, 2008, 3:21 AM
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Now this blows me away. In the 1950 images, there are entire neighbourhoods that have been wiped off the map.
-Burlington & Gage
-Burlington & Sherman
-Ottawa & Beach
There's probably more
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Now this blows me away. In the 1950 images, there are entire neighbourhoods that have been wiped off the map.
-Burlington & Gage
-Burlington & Sherman
-Ottawa & Beach
There's probably more
You can still see remnants of some of those neighbourhoods. There is an old road and some street signs in a field at Burlington and Gage, and I'm sure many of you have noticed the small cluster of houses that remain around Burlington St. near there.
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