Historical Winnipeg discussion

[myuglyface]

[QUOTE=1ajs;4831464]agg i need a proper scanner
What is that Something College to the left?

[1ajs]

think it says press

[flatlander]

Is that the old fire hall that sat where Old Market Square now exists?

[1ajs]

no were seeing a building at king and william the firehall was at banatyn and king

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

think it says press

Probably Success College, which was a commercial college (where you'd go to learn to be a secretary, etc.) and later became Success-Angus Commercial College (wasn't that Gary Filmon's family business, come to think of it?)

[1ajs]

interesting

i need to find my magninfying glass and see what the sign on the right says

[Xtoval]

As much as I am repulsed by the old city hall (perhaps a curiosity that would have attracted tourists to Minnedosa or Winkler) I agree that the new city hall, despite Andy's protestations of its modernist cred, is a cold, banal, possibly carcinogenic building. But let's not get nostalgic about a building that was never much to begin with.

[1ajs]

the court yard is wat makes ou city hall and the clock it once had hopfully they fix it

[rgalston]

Here's a photo looking down Rupert Street to the Hydro plant, 1962. The larger portion of the Smart-Bag Co. building can be seen in the left background.

These two ancient little holdouts probably didn't survive too far after this photo was taken. I'd guess they date back to the 1870s, or built as temporary dwellings during the boom of the early '80s. In the '00s they would have housed a newly-arrived Anglo/Scot laborer and his family, and in the '10s and '20s a Chinese laundry.

[Winnipegger@Heart]

Great find--thanks for sharing...I never, ever get tired of seeing pics of our city from back in the day.

[1ajs]

logan and main 1950

[1ajs]

diging around nfb found a film called jews of winnipeg from 1973 has some footage of the old imigration hall next to cpr inside it looks like it wa vacant for quite some time
http://www.nfb.ca/film/jews_of_winnipeg/ also theres obviously lots of other historic info in this film from 1973

[bryanscott]

On the the subject of NFB films, I caught "The McIntyre Block" (1977) at Cinemateque a few weeks ago. Brilliant and quirky film about the quirky tenants of the McIntyre Block in its last days of operation. I didn't even know it existed, but I'm very glad I saw it.

[rgalston]

I posted a number of color photos I found at the U of M's Winnipeg Building Index. They are all from 1962. Someone, I'm guessing from the Faculty of Architecture, was smart to document old buildings and places in the city that were quickly disappearing by '62 (ie, the old Rosh Pina Synagogue at Martha and Henry Ave.

Some of these photos would have been posted on this thread, but most wouldn't have.

Here is Academy Road, looking west from Waterloo St.

[eman]

Is that a Safeway store on Academy where 7/11 and Domo are now?

[Kinguni]

Originally Posted by eman

Is that a Safeway store on Academy where 7/11 and Domo are now?

Yes it is.

[trueviking]

man, i live right there....i wish that safeway was still there...it would do really well there today.....i wonder if it was in the same building that the sev is in now....

[rgalston]

Originally Posted by trueviking

man, i live right there....i wish that safeway was still there...it would do really well there today.....i wonder if it was in the same building that the sev is in now....

I think Safeway (in Winnipeg at least) followed different generations of store templates. First there were the one-storey place, up to the sidewalk and with a sort of mansard roof (a few of those are still around). Then in the 1950s they went to a bigger store with a big parking lot. I think the photo shows a building up to the sidewalk.

On a side note, I think the polling company Angus (now Ipsos) Reid started out in the upstairs of that 7-11.

[Winnipegger@Heart]

Awnings make streets, and storefronts more inviting...I also miss the neon signs that used to adorn so many streetscapes.

[Andy6]

Also all the words that you see. It feels like the buildings are in conversation. It's mentally stimulating to look down the street. Even more so, because it's not the same chain-store signs you see in every city in the world.