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[Sparky]

The bottom right hand corner shows the baseball diamond in BHP that VHF and I discussed in a thread a year or two ago.

[Bingo]

A completed Memorial Arena, and a still unfinished Christ Church Cathedral. The old Central High School is still there, as is the Empress Hotel laundry and St. Josephs Hospital. A large parking lot on the future site of the Provincial Museum, and many old houses on the sites of future government parking lots.

[Baro]

Does anyone have a map of how the tracks in front of value village went before they were ripped up?

[Bingo]

Does anyone have a map of how the tracks in front of value village went before they were ripped up?

No map but, the single track went down the middle of Store Street, and there was a siding behind the building the houses the Grindstone Cafe at Herald Street. You can still see the curve in the building that matched the curve in the tracks.

There was another siding and loading dock right up close to Value Village (formerly Kelly Douglas warehouse) minus those decorative beams that are there now.

[UrbanRail]

Does anyone have a map of how the tracks in front of value village went before they were ripped up?

Here you go. http://forums.railfa...lbionaerial.jpg

Its an old aerial view dating from 1958

and a map of the approx. trackage layout

http://forums.railfa...1818747;start=0

[UrbanRail]

Another in the same series, just North/East of the Johnson Street Bridge.

http://vintageairpho...com/bo-47-1456/

Mark

That is one cool shot of the Store St yards. I would be interested in purchasing a copy for my collection. I saw the prices, very reasonable and I am thinking of the printed option.

[Sparky]

The Lansdowne Airfield was abandoned in 1931, many years before the aerial photo was taken of Victoria.
more:
http://victoriahisto...downe-airfield/

Yes it was "officially" abandoned in 1931 but was still used for airshows after that. The hangar was not torn down until 1955. So that still could have been the airfield in the picture.

http://wpbradley.wor...com/2010/06/18/

[Bingo]

Yes it was "officially" abandoned in 1931 but was still used for airshows after that. The hangar was not torn down until 1955. So that still could have been the airfield in the picture.

http://wpbradley.wor...com/2010/06/18/

In the picture with the Tri-motors taken around 1928 the service was cancelled not long after, when one of the planes crashed into the sea on the way to Seattle.

[MarkP]

Hey guys, got a new one for ya. It from roughly Herald looking back toward the Empress. You get a better view of that end of town.

http://vintageairpho...com/bo-47-1451/

Mark

[Holden West]

Wow, a very rare view from that angle. Look at the three tennis courts on Herald St. where the Chinatown apartment building is today.

[D.L.]

Gosh, look at that 10 story Bank of Toronto. I guess Victorians really did have something against those Toronto sized buildings.

[Bingo]

The Odeon Theatre is under construction.

That looks like a cigarette billboard ad at Douglas and Pembroke.

Could it be the lady for British Consols.

[aastra]

Geez, look at that building on the southwest corner of Pandora and Government. Also, that one on the southeast corner of Broad and Pandora.

[Rick Pitts]

I sure would like to see the photo of that Kings Rd/ Douglas St. corner. When I was a kid my grandfather had a plumbing shop called Empire Plumbing and Heating next door to Pharmacy on the corner. He used to take care of the boiler in that building in the 50's......gawd I'm old.

[HB]

Blanshard Street ends at Pandora in this photo.

[aastra]

The old annex/breezeway at Oaklands School was demolished a few years ago but it hasn't even been built yet in that 1947 picture.

I was way out to lunch when I said this. The annex with the pillars was definitely there in 1947. You can see it in the picture, behind the large trees.

[Bingo]

I was way out to lunch when I said this. The annex with the pillars was definitely there in 1947. You can see it in the picture, behind the large trees.

Which photo are we talking about?

[Langford Rat]

Bingo, I'm pretty sure that is her. The MacDonalds Lassie. She was (is) an iconic Canadian trademark for British Consol and Export "A" (the green death) brand cigarettes. She was created by one of Canada's most famous illustrators, Rex Woods, in the mid-thirties.

[MarkP]

Got the Burnside area of Victoria from 1951...

This is another cool one with lots of detail.

http://vintageairphotos.com/1-69/

Mark

[Sparky]

Holy crap Mark, that one is excellent. I love the shot of the roundabout, the JSB, Point Ellis Bridge, RAP.

You can count the pieces of wood stacked at the mill.

I think I see the beginnings of the Monterey Restaurant.

Thank you for that.....this one is going to take some time to digest.