Fake buildings/disguised uses
#1
Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:29 AM
Perhaps the most visible one is the microwave tower at Fort and Langley, disguised as a bell tower:
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This kiosk on Belleville hides some sort of sewage vent, I believe:
http://goo.gl/maps/xohvp
This stinky box is also sewage related, although it's not really disguised as something else, it's just a decorated box:
http://goo.gl/maps/Y1dXU
Dylan points out the second floor car park behind the facade of this Oak Bay Avenue building:
http://www.facebook.....23&h=nAQFObzwn
What's with this building on Feltham in Saanich?
http://goo.gl/maps/MTkGk
(Thread inspired by this very cool article: http://www.messyness...ground-portals/)
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#2
Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:39 AM
What's with this building on Feltham in Saanich?
http://goo.gl/maps/MTkGk
When I was a kid it was a BC Tel building, sometimes even had service vehicles parked there overnight. It was marked back then.
#3
Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:40 AM
#4
Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:48 AM
But apparently it's not one. It fooled me for the first 40 years of my life (great disguise!).
INFO, and pic of sign at real reservoir: http://www.flickr.co...s21/4014964052/
This most distinctive reservoir sits on Mount Tolmie. (Some people think the reservoir is the concrete slab on the very peak, but that's the old platform for a WWII radio building. The reservoir is further down, at the end of Cromwell Road.)
http://unknownvictor...p-to-drink.html
It might be a good idea to put a sign at that platform, saying what it is/was. Cool that it has such a smooth surface, used to be good for roller-skating (conversely, roller-skating up or down Mt. Tolmie was not fun/safe). Note that it has rails, not like the old Ogden Point breakwater.
#5
Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:48 AM
http://maps.google.c...2,232.3,,0,8.13
#6
Posted 04 May 2013 - 07:55 AM
#7
Posted 04 May 2013 - 03:28 PM
Almost looks like a Telus logo on the door of the van of you zoom in a few times.
This house on the corner of Lampson and Head street is a pumping station.
http://maps.google.c...2,232.3,,0,8.13
#8
Posted 04 May 2013 - 05:20 PM
#9
Posted 04 May 2013 - 08:23 PM
I believe this is posing as a water reservoir, just east of the summit of Mt. Tolmie.
But apparently it's not one. It fooled me for the first 40 years of my life (great disguise!).
INFO, and pic of sign at real reservoir: http://www.flickr.co...s21/4014964052/
http://unknownvictor...p-to-drink.html
It might be a good idea to put a sign at that platform, saying what it is/was. Cool that it has such a smooth surface, used to be good for roller-skating (conversely, roller-skating up or down Mt. Tolmie was not fun/safe). Note that it has rails, not like the old Ogden Point breakwater.
I think that your info is incorrect as I remember them building that "platform" and it is indeed a reservoir inside.
#10
Posted 04 May 2013 - 08:45 PM
The city’s oldest reservoir is on Smith’s Hill, now Summit Park, but the most distinctive of them sits on Mount Tolmie. (Some people think the reservoir is the concrete slab on the very peak, but that’s the old platform for a WWII radio building. The reservoir is further down, at the end of Cromwell Road.)
http://unknownvictor...p-to-drink.html
#11
Posted 04 May 2013 - 09:01 PM
#12
Posted 04 May 2013 - 09:06 PM
Perhaps I am mistaken. I remember a big seismic project there in the 1990's and you could see into the reservoir. Quite cool with lots of pillars etc... I really thought it was on top but perhaps I have misplaced my memories.
Ross Crockford:
A few years ago it had to be seismically upgraded, for fear that it would unleash a deadly wave on homes below if it cracked open. But why does it have a roof, when other reservoirs are open to the sky? Answer: because planners designed it at the height of the Cold War, and wanted to keep the water safe from nuclear fallout.
Kind of funny though, in 1994 they built ANOTHER platform up there for communication towers for the Games.
#13
Posted 04 May 2013 - 10:20 PM
"By 1891, Cedar Hill X Road and Mayfair Drive were in place and this site was being used as parkland. Development began in 1958 and Mayfair Drive was re-routed, parking lots developed and paths cleared. The reservoir was constructed in 1967."
http://www.saanich.ca/gorp/tolmie.html
"Some people think the reservoir is the concrete slab on the very peak, but that’s the old platform for a WWII radio building. The reservoir is further down, at the end of Cromwell Road.) Built in 1960"
http://unknownvictor....-to-drink.html
#14
Posted 05 May 2013 - 05:42 AM
Archives Number: 1980-015-057
Title: Mount Tolmie Reservoir
Date: 1967
http://www.saanich.c...l&localArea=All
#15
Posted 05 May 2013 - 07:57 AM
When I was a kid it was a BC Tel building, sometimes even had service vehicles parked there overnight. It was marked back then.
Now it is a Telus building.
#16
Posted 05 May 2013 - 08:20 AM
What's the body of water on that spot in these pictures from the 1940s?...the summit reservoir was built in 1967...
http://vintageairpho...com/bo-47-1524/
http://vintageairpho...com/bo-47-1460/
http://www.bcarchive...155/i_50511.txtSmith’s Hill Reservoir, completed in 1909, was built to increase the water pressure of the City’s water supply from Elk Lake. It’s 5.8 m (19 ft.) deep. The reservoir was no longer used after 1964 when the Sooke Lake Reservoir was completed. It now serves as an emergency water supply...
http://www.bcarchive..._81/f_06946.txt
Isn't there also a covered reservoir in Royal Oak/Broadmead somewhere or did I imagine that?
Edit: Sorry, I now understand that you were referring to the summit of Mt. Tolmie, not the Summit Park reservoir.
#17
Posted 05 May 2013 - 08:48 AM
#18
Posted 05 May 2013 - 08:56 AM
^ There is a reservoir on the south end of Wesely on Claremont ridge.
HERE: https://maps.google....h Columbia&z=19
It's common to have a reservoir at a high point, near the "end of the line". It helps with pressure or can even increase capacity, by allowing it to be filled at night, and drained in the day, so now you sort of have two inputs into the lines - one from Sooke Lake, one from the reservoir.
#19
Posted 05 May 2013 - 09:37 AM
When I came to OB I thought the Currie Rd pumping station was a house closed up while the owner was away for the winter. Fooled me!
#20
Posted 05 May 2013 - 10:51 AM
Now it is a Telus building.
Crap, the Sparkster was wrong, I can't believe it.
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