Still more interesting archival pics
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:29 PM
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:30 PM
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:30 PM
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:31 PM
#5
Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:57 PM
wow, another old 5 storey building stood beside the Ritz!!
it's amazing how the old buildings along Douglas St and to the east were decimated compared to buildings to the west. a shame too because they were most of the larger buildings in the city at that time. Dougals was lined with buildings 4 to 10 floors tall. Today that range is more like 2 to 8 floors.
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Posted 24 December 2006 - 01:06 AM
#7
Posted 12 January 2007 - 10:54 AM
My guess is that it's actually the 700 block Pandora, around where John's Place is.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#8
Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:02 AM
#9
Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:03 AM
Yup John's Place used to be Sears Roebuck!
#10
Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:37 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:39 AM
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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:47 AM
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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:54 AM
#14
Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:58 AM
I would give anything to turn the clock back on the south west corner of Yates and Douglas...
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Posted 19 January 2007 - 05:17 PM
#16
Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:12 AM
As this pic of John's Place shows we are often covering and uncovering buildings. Well this goes on. As some may know, there is now an Island Savings location downtown at Broughton and Douglas. I thought the building was just getting a little dusting up and some new sconces. But after a conversation with one of the workers on a break today I found out that the whole building is being re-clad in aluminium. This is interesting because you don't often get to see buildings disapear under a new skin and will people 30 or 40 years ago be removing that cladding to show the 1970s era brick and stucco work?
Anyways it should be done by the end of the week this is going to look quite different than it does now.
#17
Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:14 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:17 AM
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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:26 AM
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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:33 AM
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