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#1 aastra

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Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:29 PM

My contempt for the office block on the corner of Douglas and Johnson is lessened a bit when I look at this picture. The big blank wall on the north side wasn't so bad when the old buildings next door were still around. It's the office building on the corner of Pandora that came later (~1982, if memory serves me) that really perpetrated the ultimate crime, what with its sunken retail spaces and massive setback. SHAME!



#2 aastra

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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

The Campbell Building's blank south face probably didn't score any points in its favour when the time came to demolish it.



#5 D.L.

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Posted 23 December 2006 - 02:57 PM

city hall :D


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

It's a good thing they demolished those 8-10 story buildings, they wern't "victoria sized". Victoria has always been striving for the perfect city, which is no taller than 5 and large setbacks. This was the plan for day one. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a filthy lier and or a greedy developer, maybe even a time traveling developer. Only way to explain it...
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#7 Holden West

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 10:54 AM

Here's an odd picture. It's labelled "OPENING OF SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO. STORE, 700 BLOCK YATES STREET, VICTORIA. Photographer/Artist: Macphail, Duncan Date: 1947", but you can see the reflection of the Hudson's Bay building and its huge sign:



My guess is that it's actually the 700 block Pandora, around where John's Place is.
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#8 G-Man

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:02 AM

I would say that is pretty accurate. That might be Johns place. Perhaps an investigation is in order!

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:03 AM



Yup John's Place used to be Sears Roebuck!

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#10 Holden West

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:37 AM

Good work! Like the Monaco Lofts, another case of Victoria's hidden modernist-within-heritage period.
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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:39 AM

It is quite shocking how many of the photos are completely wrong. Wonder if we should be finding out how to correct errors.

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#12 G-Man

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:47 AM

Here is a neat one looking North from the Driard. Amazing how "Western" Victoria looks not very British at all.


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#13 G-Man

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:54 AM

Ok check out his old sign on Yates Street!


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#14 G-Man

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 11:58 AM

This one will depress you...

I would give anything to turn the clock back on the south west corner of Yates and Douglas...



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#15 aastra

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Posted 19 January 2007 - 05:17 PM

I wish somebody would flatten that corner and that stretch along Douglas where the Shoppers Drug Mart is and give Victorians something worthy of the area's former glory. Bland is NOT beautiful!





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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.

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#17 Holden West

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:14 AM

Does anyone have a good "before" picture of the Broughton/Douglas building? How quickly they disappear.
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#18 G-Man

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:17 AM

Yeah I thought about that after the conversation. Its too late at this point because they are part way through. I think there is one in Segger.

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:26 AM

The Real Victoria has a small pic of it.


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#20 G-Man

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:33 AM

Here is a rendering from the Island Savings site:


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