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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 3:33 AM
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This week- Mar 3 1954: 509 - 517 Main burned (across from City Hall). I had seen this pic before:

from Winnipeg Fire Museum

I found this s a couple of days ago in a city report. I had not seen that angle before of that strip:



Sorry, doesn't seem to want to post that image.
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 3:47 AM
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The Woodbine

I did a two part history of the Woodbine. A few of the images I used in that:

Edward Hebb. Became owner (or at least half owner) in 1889-ish. Died in the hotel still a half owner and operator in 1942. Over 50 years !!



The telegram (Syracuse NY) reports on the fire that destroyed Ashdown's, The Bulman block, reduces the Dufferin Block (Birt Saddlery) to one floor and severely damages the Woodbine.



I always found it interesting that from 1904 to this day the Bulman Block never rebuilt, Birt's remained a single storey. Ashdown's was the only spot to completely rebuild and the Woodbine used the renovations to continue it's partial third storey right to the front of the building. You'd think that through the boom years of the 10's and 20's that someone would have wanted to fill in the spaces.


(Ashdown's Burning from Wpg Fire Museum )


c 1907 from Virtual Heritage Winnipeg)
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 4:04 AM
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Great work. That explains a lot. Appreciate all your efforts.
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ooo another one of andy's post cards

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thats a beauty. i wonder why main and portage (among other major streets i assume)were built so wide. you would think with more people on foot and less autos clogging streets they would have wanted them narrower.
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Old Posted Mar 12, 2009, 6:13 PM
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thats a beauty. i wonder why main and portage (among other major streets i assume)were built so wide. you would think with more people on foot and less autos clogging streets they would have wanted them narrower.
They were built wide out of necessity. The roads were mud, and when it rained and in the spring you needed a wide road to be able to get around the mud puddles. And that was with ox carts, not cars.

That said, the NW corner of Main and McDermot sure looks great with a building instead of a parking lot.
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Architectural Salvage

It seems as though whenever a new park opens it features pieces of old stonework from some demo'd building (think Air Canada or the park on Mostyn) It gets me thinking: there must be some place all this architectural salvage is being kept. This gets me thinking: I want some.

Does anyone know where they keep this stuff and who "they" are?

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/Winnipeg...um/EHD-734.jpg

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/Winnipeg...um/EHD-729.jpg
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Old Posted Mar 17, 2009, 1:30 AM
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A propos of possible flooding, here are a couple of old postcard pics from 1950:

Corner of Inkster and St. Cross:



Corner of Matheson and St. Cross:



The Scotia Street area was about the worst-hit part of the city, along with Elm Park, I guess.
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That first one would be looking east on Inkster, since the Luxton School yard is on the SW corner of Inkster and St. Cross. Somewhere up on the river in West Kildonan, just south of the Park, there is a tall pole that has rings marking where the flood waters reached in 1997, 1950, et c., with the highest being 1826.
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From the Inkster shot it appears that the waters had been a couple of feet higher since the walls of the buildings are uniformly dampstained above the current water level.
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any shots showing hallet out there???
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Old Posted Mar 18, 2009, 2:51 AM
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Here's a nice Guy Maddin-esque shot of Polson Avenue at night, looking east from Main Street, probably mid-40s:

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hot damn what a nice photo!
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i just moved to st boniface.. don't show those kind of flooding pictures!!
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nice find andy looks rahther foggy in that shot
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was going through the tub of photos from 97 flood to bosnia stuff and found these in an envilope with a recipt from the press club so i am asuming thats where they came from


this one apaears to be on portage ave with the boyd building underconstruction.. i had to flip this one as who ever developed it had put the negitive in the wrong way
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Wow, nice find AJS.
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the street car on the left side of the pic looks like it has a bike rack on the front? either that or a bale fork . they say the more things change the more they stay the same?
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the street car on the left side of the pic looks like it has a bike rack on the front? either that or a bale fork . they say the more things change the more they stay the same?
I assume it's like a cowcatcher on a locomotive -- maybe you kids wouldn't remember those though. Streetcars at that time were pretty dangerous; you can hardly look at an old copy of the Free Press or Tribune without finding an account of someone being killed or injured by one.
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I assume it's like a cowcatcher on a locomotive -- maybe you kids wouldn't remember those though. Streetcars at that time were pretty dangerous; you can hardly look at an old copy of the Free Press or Tribune without finding an account of someone being killed or injured by one.
Is this still the case in Toronto and in other places which kept their street car lines?
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