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HAMILTON Part IX: Mountain and Skyline [UPDATED]

UPDATED with better pictures - August 10, 2009

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it's amazing how any city can look so beautiful at night.
 
There are many charming things about Hamilton as you've demonstrated, however, its St. Jamestown-style, slab-dominated skyline is not one of them.
Actually, the better slabsville comparison (esp. at street level) is the Yonge/Church/Wellesley zone. They may be towers, but they sure aren't "the projects"...
 
Excellent set of threads, flar. Thanks for the efforts.
 
The skyline could certainly use an update, it's barely changed since the 70's. None of the current construction or proposals will have much impact on the skyline either. Most of them are ~10 floors (a couple hotels, a couple offices, a few residential buildings). There is one proposed condo at 21 floors (behind the Royal Connaught) and another building in the works that could be tall depending on what goes in it. The latter project is being spearheaded by David Braley and McMaster Health Sciences and could include the board of education and possibly offices for a financial company.
 
Great Hamilton Skyline/Mountain pics!!!

Flar: Great Hamilton Skyline and Mountain pics! I remember seeing HML for the first time in 1979/80 coming down the mountain on the train - I rode that train on 4 round trips those years- on the still running TH&B Budd Car train-discontinued in 1981 when the Amtrak/VIA Maple Leaf began thru service via Niagara Falls and St.Catharines-the CN route. That city has always fascinated me to an extent-where was that distant Toronto skyline pic taken from? LI MIKE
 
The Toronto shot was taken at the edge of the escarpment (often called the mountain brow by Hamiltonians) near Henderson Hospital (roughly Concession and Upper Gage).
 
Part of the charm and appeal of Hamilton, as mentioned by someone in an earlier thread, is the fact that it has changed relatively little since the 1970s. Street scenes speak of life in a fairly prosperous but blue-collar and gritty city, a generation ago. More recently the drawbacks are showing. The outer areas (Ancaster and Stoney Creek) have grown, while the central city has somewhat stagnated.

The proposed medical centre / Board of Education development downtown, mentioned above, will be exciting if it comes to pass. It will be a big improvement on an underutilized but highly visible block.

Flar, thanks again for your good photographs.
 

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