23 Tuesday Feb 2016
Posted in Calgary, photography, photowalk, random, urban
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Here’s an old-school bike sitting outside an old-school local neighbourhood general store. Snapped outside Bridgeland Market in Calgary this weekend.
22 Monday Feb 2016
21 Sunday Feb 2016
Some very smart graffiti scrawled onto a wall in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood, spotted a few days ago. Too bad few people will see it in person: It’s in a space about half-a-metre wide between two buildings on 10 St. N.W.
17 Wednesday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
When I visit older cities, I love looking out for old painted signs and advertisements, much like this one in Old Montreal. This is something definitely hard to come by in Calgary, where many older buildings have vanished to make way for modern structures.
16 Tuesday Feb 2016
Posted in art, montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel
15 Monday Feb 2016
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14 Sunday Feb 2016
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13 Saturday Feb 2016
Posted in Calgary, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban
12 Friday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, Travel, urban
11 Thursday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
Montreal’s old Empress Theatre, also knows as Cinema V, is the last-remaining Egyptian-revival theatre building in Canada. (A WikiPedia entry for this building suggests it might have been the only one ever built.)
It’s been closed for years, but its exterior gives clues to its colourful past, first as a silent movie house, a repertory cinema and a first-run theatre. A fire in 1992 forced it to close for good.
After decades of decay and many failed efforts to revive the place, the local government recently tried for a new push to renovate and re-open the institution in time for Montreal’s 375th birthday in 2017.
Ricky Leong 