Historical Winnipeg discussion

[trebor204]

Here you go: I believe the pictures were taken around March 1999.

Unicity:

[Bdog]

^Remember the days when Wal-Marts were actually in malls? St. Vital is the last one left, and they've had to expand a few times...

[armorand93]

Man, this takes me back!

[1ajs]

remember the mall accross from garden city shoping center?

[trebor204]

Yep, Garden City Square, almost a carbon copy of Crossroads.
- Safeway
- Woolco
- Arcade/Smoke Shop
- Across the street from a larger mall

[1ajs]

yep that be the one its sorta still there lol

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by trebor204

Yep, Garden City Square, almost a carbon copy of Crossroads.
- Safeway
- Woolco
- Arcade/Smoke Shop
- Across the street from a larger mall

There was also a Pizza Place in that mall along with an insurance place, a dental office, a music store and a some other misc shops.

[ScrappyPeg]

And Crossroads was 'the' mall long before they built KP.

[Only The Lonely..]

Ye olde Unicity Mall had a pretty interesting layout.

I went in there once in the late 90's in its dying days. Growing up in NK I never had much of a reason to go there.

It's a shame that malls gave way to big box shopping.

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

Ye olde Unicity Mall had a pretty interesting layout.

I went in there once in the late 90's in its dying days. Growing up in NK I never had much of a reason to go there.

It's a shame that malls gave way to big box shopping.

It was quite exciting when it opened. I remember going there a few times in its first year or two. It was called Unicity Fashion Square to start with.

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

Ye olde Unicity Mall had a pretty interesting layout.

I went in there once in the late 90's in its dying days. Growing up in NK I never had much of a reason to go there.

It's a shame that malls gave way to big box shopping.

I remembered the food court mostly, and the bus stop area. Sadly, the whole things gone now

[1ajs]

anyone remember the giant chess board at garden city?

[1ajs]

so aparently this used to be smith carters offices?
http://www.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&ll...46.76,,0,-4.94

[1ajs]

god i miss the old higgins


image shot by my mother sometime around 1992 1993

[rgalston]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

god i miss the old higgins


image shot by my mother sometime around 1992 1993

You mean when there were still buildings on Higgins? Yeah, I miss those days, too.

[1ajs]

the things youtube randomly throws at yea
• Video Link

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

Nice find man, you can't help but keep pausing the video to look more in depth to what was.

[dennis]

I would not pause it. I would not want to break up that groovy tune that goes with the video.

[Arts]

Unicity mall, countless memories of that place as a kid... trying to sit on the "big stools" drinking orange julius (they had the same big plastic "pod" style tables and stools in the Portage La Prairie mall last I was through there a few years ago), all the glass and glitz at the birks jewellers, photos with santa under the atrium, getting lost in the clothes racks at woolco and going to the customer service desk so they could page my mom to come and get me, buffalo BBQ, looking for lost bills swirling around in the dust devils by the west entrance while waiting for the bus...

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by Arts

Unicity mall, countless memories of that place as a kid... trying to sit on the "big stools" drinking orange julius (they had the same big plastic "pod" style tables and stools in the Portage La Prairie mall last I was through there a few years ago), all the glass and glitz at the birks jewellers, photos with santa under the atrium, getting lost in the clothes racks at woolco and going to the customer service desk so they could page my mom to come and get me, buffalo BBQ, looking for lost bills swirling around in the dust devils by the west entrance while waiting for the bus...

i remember the bus loop, and getting lost in wal-mart round 1998 lol