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[victorian fan]

Before they built the overhead walkway, you'd get from old Eatons (Government St) to new Eatons(Douglas St) through a tunnel.

[aastra]

1963. So was a highrise in James Bay in the early 1960s more or less out-of-place than a highrise in Langford or Colwood today?

[D.L.]

I've always thought the Executive House Hotel was the first modern highrise built in the city, but it looks like that one (Regent somethingorother) beat it.

[aastra]

I thought that slim one on Dallas Road was the first?

April 18, 1964

(aerial picture of James Bay)

Caption: "Spikey face of James Bay -- from air -- will expand steadily as the high-rise apartment race accelerates. Photo by Bill Halkett shows the five high-rise apartments that have been built in the past three years to provide more than 300 living units with sweeping views of the city, Sooke Hills and Olympic Mountains. Within the next year there will be at least three more poking upwards in the same area and the high-rise network will have spread to the Esquimalt border where a series is planned overlooking West Bay. Photo shows...Regent Towers, Goodacre Towers, Bickerton Court, Beacon Towers and Seaview Towers. Construction of another high-rise already is underway near Regent Towers and sites are being cleared for two more near Goodacre Towers and Seaview Towers. Several others are on the drawing boards of hopeful developers and two commercial high-rise structures are planned for the Douglas-Humboldt area later this year."

[victorian fan]

I'm pretty sure Seaview Towers was the first. It was owned by Marie von Thurn und Taxis, an Austrian princess.

[gumgum]

I'm pretty sure that's Lord Simcoe tower in the middle of James Bay there. Lady Simcoe was to follow.

[aastra]

Is Seaview Towers the slim one on Dallas Road?

[aastra]

1964:

http://www.flickr.co...N04/3489975919/

[Phil McAvity]

Is Seaview Towers the slim one on Dallas Road?

Yup, and it used to be yellow.

victorian fan, they used that Eatons' tunnel after they built the overhead walkway as well.

[amor de cosmos]

UVic resurrects 1897 cycling map in digitized form
Popular cycling routes featured in rare pocket map
By Mike Devlin, Times Colonist
May 15, 2009 6:36 AM

A cycling map of southern Vancouver Island first published in 1897 was unveiled in digitized form this week in an effort to inspire cyclists during Bike to Work Week.

"This was wonderful timing for us," said Susan Henderson of the University of Victoria, which recently bought the map from an antiquarian bookseller. "It really points out that 100 years ago, cycling was still taken quite seriously."

The map was likely used as a guidebook for tourists. In addition to bike trails stretching through Esquimalt, Highlands, Victoria, Oak Bay and Saanich, the map includes stops of note and makes specific mention of hills in the area.

A pocket road map of this vintage is a rarity, according to library staff, and has drawn impressive views since being posted online, according to Cheryl DeWolfe, an assistant in the digitization division of the university's McPherson Library.

"As maps go, it's a really different perspective. Anything of local interest gets people excited, but the cycling aspect gets people thinking."

To view the map online, visit:contentdm.library.uvic.ca:8000/u?/veh,1575.

http://www.timescolo...9060/story.html

here's the real link to the map
http://contentdm.lib...eh&CISOPTR=1575

[aastra]

Have we seen this one before? Maybe in another thread?

http://www.railpictu...76951&nseq=2426

[victorian fan]

Wonderful picture. Ah Eddys, they had great sales. Buy one get another of the same value or less for a penny.

[little-wren]

EDIT: Tag fixed by mod

[D.L.]

Here we go:


http://www.flickr.co...N03/3720457371/

[victorian fan]

[Holden West]

What an awesome picture obviously taken from the permanent loan building.

Those row houses would be Blanshard Street. You can see the Ocean Island Backpackers across the steet and the roof of the Synagogue.

I thought it was interesting comparing these two images.

[VicHockeyFan]

This is looking north up Quadra street, taken from St. John's church.



http://www.victoriah...arkhistory.html

[D.L.]

Looks like there used to be a hill where the arena parking is now. That vegtable market sounds nice.

[VicHockeyFan]

Looks like there used to be a hill where the arena parking is now.

Even well into the 70's maybe even mid 80's there was lots of rock behind the arena. I forget what they did with it when they blasted it out, but it went somewhere useful. They used to stage the JC Fair behind the arena, the rock was still there.

[D.L.]

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