10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, Canada, history, photography, trains, Trains & Transit
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alberta, calgary, canada, Heritage Park, history, locomotive, photography, photos, pictures, steam engine, train, trains
Seen at Heritage Park in September 2008.
09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, fun, photography, photowalking, random, urban
09 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Canada, fun, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, urban
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted in Alberta, art, Calgary, photowalking, random
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alberta, art, calgary, canada, CFL, Flames, football, hockey, NHL, photowalk, sports, Stampeders, street art, urban
This chicken is cheering for everyone, it seems.
Back in the fall, dressed up for former Stampeders QB Henry Burris …
… and today, playing the role of Flames net minder Miikka Kiprusoff.
The ultimate bandwagon jumper. In a good way.
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
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canada, deli, delicatessen, food, montreal, quebec, Schwartz's, smoked meat, Travel
With the confirmation pop singer superstar Céline Dion and producer husband René Angelil have purchased the famed Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen on Boul. Saint-Laurent in Montreal, one can only hope they will leave well enough alone. There is no need to change what works.
And boy, does it work. It is common to see a long queue down the block at peak meal times.
Above, one of their famed smoked meat sandwiches: Smoked meat with mustard on rye bread, served with a pickle and a small plate of French fries on the side.
If you go, don’t order the lean meat — it tends to be drier and it’s not nearly as silky smooth or as flavourful.
I never went to Schwartz’s enough when I lived in Montreal. Now, I crave it when I go back for a visit.
Definitely worth your time.
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, history, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, photography, photos, photowalk, preservation, random, street art, urban
This is street art put up on some boarded-up windows in Curtis Block, which stood on Macleod Tr. across from the Stampede grounds in Calgary. It’s something you will never see again: The building was demolished in July 2008.
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Canada, photography, Travel
Another oldie … this one from May 2010 while on my way to Vancouver by car.
Here, I was fooling around with my pocket camera while stopped on the highway at Golden, B.C. I was waiting my turn along a stretch of alternating one-way traffic because of road construction.
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, fun, photography, photowalking, urban
The observation deck of the Calgary Tower affords a lovely view of town in good weather, as much at night as during the day. Here, we’re looking north, up Centre St.
On the right is the Bow building, still under construction but now the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto.
On the left is the West Tower of the Suncor Energy Centre (formerly the Petro-Canada Centre) which holds No. 2 status for skyscraper height in Calgary.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
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04 Sunday Mar 2012
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alberta, building, calgary, canada, demolition, history, photowalk, preservation, urban
With all the building activity around 10 St. N.W. in Kensington, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice something was actually being torn down. That’s just what happened through the month of February in Sunnyside, where the old City of Calgary garage was being taken apart.
As some of you might have noticed, I have a soft spot for older buildings, even if they aren’t (or weren’t) esthetically pleasing in any way. The Sunnyside garage was a utilitarian industrial-style building that fit the character of the neighbourhood around it. That said, I can certainly understand its owners wanting to re-purpose the prime real-estate it sat on for something more mid- to high-density residential, as seems to be going on nearby.
Still, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad, taking in that musty demolition smell as I snapped this photo and a few others.
And within a week, there was nothing left but a heap of rubble. One more historical Calgary building to live on only in our memories.
Ricky Leong 