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Old Posted Jul 5, 2010, 4:08 AM
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Look, I really do appreciate your enthusiasm as well as others, for the past and how passtionate you are about it, but sometimes your "stuck in the past, lets keep Winnipeg small and in the 1910s" mentality is a real downer, pissing all over any new development in Winnipeg, saying how it's destroying the city. For crying out loud, come on buddy! Winnipeg is growing, thriving and becoming more competitive with larger centres, again! I love The Exchange and all the wonderful buildings showing off our past to all, but I also am excited for the future and what new developments are coming our way, and we have lots on the go now. Winnipeg is growing bigger and stronger all at a decent rate, and I love it!!!
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2010, 4:25 AM
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That video is awesome 1ajs!

The guy driving the car in the beginning was a maniac, but who knew people were taping movies from moving cars in Winnipeg back in the day? Crazy.

It's certainly cool to see what Winnipeg was when it simply a two street town. Two street or not, it certainly seemed a lot more urban. The shots down Main made me want to cry - especially the old Royal Alex looming in the distance...
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2010, 4:13 PM
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The National Trust Building can be seen in the centre of this photo from the General Strike found here.

ahhhh yes,..... thanks rob
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2010, 5:39 PM
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wow... theres some realy good footage here from the 20's 30's 50's
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nice clip of the suds showing a hansome red brick building where theres a surface lot today (7:56 mark)
Good stuff. I went to a showing a few years ago at the Archive's Building of what I think is this whole film (the part at the end of these clips) on a fairly big screen. They had just either found it/restored it. Of course it is not the Number 1 Transcanada of today. As I recall it went through Whitemouth?
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2010, 5:43 PM
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taking screen shots of said pdf's and editing them in paint
Thanks to all, I think I am getting the hang of it just when my annual subscription to the Free Press archives ran out last week. I am pretty sure I will reup.
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2010, 11:13 PM
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Good stuff. I went to a showing a few years ago at the Archive's Building of what I think is this whole film (the part at the end of these clips) on a fairly big screen. They had just either found it/restored it. Of course it is not the Number 1 Transcanada of today. As I recall it went through Whitemouth?
Most of it is what is now Highway 44.
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Old Posted Jul 6, 2010, 6:20 AM
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That video is awesome 1ajs!

The guy driving the car in the beginning was a maniac, but who knew people were taping movies from moving cars in Winnipeg back in the day? Crazy.

It's certainly cool to see what Winnipeg was when it simply a two street town. Two street or not, it certainly seemed a lot more urban. The shots down Main made me want to cry - especially the old Royal Alex looming in the distance...
Walking in the Winnipeg of yesteryear was definitely some Frogger shit...
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Old Posted Jul 6, 2010, 4:23 PM
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Streets were still more like public squares then, with cars just making their way through whatever else was there in whatever way seemed best. For all of human history until about 15 years before that film was made, streets had existed for purposes that did not in any way involve motorized vehicles. That didn't change overnight. It was only a bit later that they became regulated into automobile-only throughways, with people, animals, carts etc. restricted to the sidewalks.
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Old Posted Jul 6, 2010, 6:09 PM
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"These horseless carriages are merely a fad blown about by the winds of human foolishness. I predict they will vanish in less than a year's time." - Archibald MacIvor; Harnessmaker - The Great West Saddlery Company

That's how i feel about the Internet.
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That's how i feel about the Internet.
And in 100 years will look just as foolish.
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Old Posted Jul 7, 2010, 1:19 PM
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And in 100 years will look just as foolish.
It was a joke hOtwired.
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great photos!
do you know when that market square picture was taken? i'm curious when the market building was converted to civic offices. and the leland hotel's top 3 floors had already burnt down.

i also never quite realized that the old city hall was rivaling the royal bank tower in height. that must've been impressive to walk past everyday...
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no idea when it was shot will probly know when that post card gets here
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If only the original city hall, and market were still standing...although I had no idea the modernization it underwent, losing most of its grandeur...


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Old Posted Jul 11, 2010, 10:54 PM
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also the royal bank building has windows added and vults added and fire escape and signs changed around kinda neat to see how things change over time
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Old Posted Jul 12, 2010, 1:51 AM
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The Leland was somewhat stupid-looking, but a restored Leland would be nice too.

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Old Posted Jul 12, 2010, 1:56 AM
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great photos!
do you know when that market square picture was taken? i'm curious when the market building was converted to civic offices. and the leland hotel's top 3 floors had already burnt down...
The Leland fire was in 1913, I believe. I would guess that that postcard is from the early to mid 1920s ... maybe 1923 or 1924, somewhere in there.
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Old Posted Jul 12, 2010, 1:17 PM
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Someone should really restore Old Market Square and build a building on the property.

Anyone interested in starting the Friends of Old Market Square on Facebook?

So sad that the original building is no longer there.

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