The Vogue (Government and Johnson streets) | Completed reno
#1
Posted 21 September 2006 - 07:19 PM
Has anyone else noticed this?
#2
Posted 21 September 2006 - 07:20 PM
#3
Posted 21 September 2006 - 07:27 PM
But hey, on another topic, next time you're in the area of Capital Iron in the evening check out the red lighting in the windows. It looks really neat and ads some vital colour to the area.
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#4
Posted 21 September 2006 - 07:55 PM
The vogue wasn't really that interesting to begin with though, was it?
We need some before/after pictures in here.
#5
Posted 25 September 2006 - 10:07 PM
#6
Posted 25 September 2006 - 10:18 PM
I'll take it any day over what it looked like when it was gov't offices.
#7
Posted 15 April 2008 - 05:42 PM
Here is a collaged panorama image made from screen captures from the 1966 NFB film "A Townscape Rediscovered". EDIT: it shows the Quonlee's corner store at Fisgard and Government:
Note the Chinese instructional poster illustrating the walk/don't walk signs.
#8
Posted 15 April 2008 - 06:44 PM
#9
Posted 15 April 2008 - 07:11 PM
#10
Posted 15 April 2008 - 07:53 PM
The telephoto lens throws off the perspective. It looks like it's directly across the street from the Century Inn/Victoria Plaza when in fact it's a block away.
#11
Posted 15 April 2008 - 08:06 PM
#12
Posted 15 April 2008 - 08:13 PM
#13
Posted 15 April 2008 - 08:30 PM
It was really classy at one time. The Century Inn had just been remodeled in 1966. Don't forget that was stylish back then.
The next thing you are going to tell me is that people once thought Centennial Square was beautiful and would do nothing but draw citizens from all over the CRD to the upper part of downtown.
IMO the 1960s were a near disaster in terms of good architecture and design, at least as far as Victoria was concerned. Suburbanization and "auto-centrism" seems to have been the "driving force" (no pun intended) in much of what got built in that era. The new buildings (and remodeling of older structures) from this period have not stood the test of time. More so, without much exaggeration, I think the mind-set behind these designs was a major factor in the decline of the downtown core of Victoria that we are only just now starting to rectify.
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