16 Saturday Mar 2019
Posted in history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, trains, Trains & Transit, transportation, Travel, urban
04 Monday Feb 2019
Posted in Alberta, architecture, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, architecture, calgary, canada, history, photowalk, preservation, random, urban
This is the last photo I took of the little yellow house once belonging to Enoch Sales.
The building in Calgary’s Victoria Park neighbourhood, long in a state of disrepair, was the last remaining Queen Anne Revival-style home in the city. It had been slated to be part of an area revitalization project called the Rivers District.
The building burned in a two-alarm fire on Feb. 2, 2019, and was subsequently demolished.
15 Friday Jun 2018
Posted in England, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
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architecture, Bath, Bath Abbey, church, England, history, photowalk, preservation, random, U.K., urban
While I was waiting for the clock tower climb and tour at Bath Abbey last month, I took a moment to admire the abbey’s stained glass and fan vault ceiling.
10 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted in Arizona, history, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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arizona, history, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, preservation, random, Travel, urban
An old building waiting some TLC in Phoenix’s Warehouse District, spotted about a year ago.
11 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, history, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
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alberta, calgary, canada, HDR, history, iPhoneography, photography, photowalk, preservation, random, urban
Today, the Rocky Ridge and Tuscany neighbourhoods are just far-flung suburban areas of Calgary. But back in the 1950 and ’60, there was not much around the area, except a lot of open spaces and a service station along the highway to Cochrane.
The Eamon’s Bungalow Camp sign was restored and made part of the Tuscany CTrain station. The garage was put into storage some time ago and purchased for a nominal sum by a group in High River, to be restored and used there.
The photos here were snapped a few days ago.
13 Sunday Nov 2016
Posted in Berlin, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
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Berlin, Germany, history, palace, photography, photowalk, Potsdam, preservation, random, Travel
Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany, is home to some neat historical palaces tied to the German monarchy. Above is the New Palace; below is Sanssouci Palace. Most of the buildings have been preserved and are open to the public for visits; some are used by the University of Potsdam.
19 Thursday Jun 2014
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alberta, calgary, canada, decay, HDR, history, iPhoneography, photowalk, preservation, random, urban
With an entire neighbourhood disappearing around it, this house near the Calgary Stampede grounds has somehow withstood the changes. At last report, it was to be moved to make way for a condo project. When I last visited it at the end of April, it was already it pretty rough shape.
29 Thursday May 2014
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alberta, calgary, canada, heritage, historical, history, preservation
Very glad to see plaques with historical information pop up on buildings all over the Kensington business district.
And in case you missed it, I wrote about the state of historical preservation in Calgary in my Sun column several weeks ago.
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Posted in Calgary, history, photography, photowalking, random, urban
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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.
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 