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A walk around the blue collar Gibson and Landsdale neighbourhoods in central Hamilton.

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More good Hamilton pix...

Flar: Good pix of the Gibson and Lansdale neighborhoods in HML! In part of the 90s I lived outside Philadelphia in a Montgomery County,PA Boro of Lansdale-the most common mis-spelling of that name was Landsdale-which one is right in HMLs case? Just curious.. LI MIKE
 
It's "Landsdale".

Another good set of pictures Flar! You have documented a good deal of Hamilton. Thanks for posting these.
 
vrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooom!

Gentrifiers priced out of the inner Toronto market...please start your engines. Is this what Cabbagetown in the 1970s looked like?
 
Maybe I've missed it, but... do you have anything of Limeridge Road before the Link ruined it?
 
Maybe I've missed it, but... do you have anything of Limeridge Road before the Link ruined it?

No, they built the linc before I moved here. I don't get up on the mountain too often either. I feel sorry for the people who live on Limeridge though, it's broken into about 5 sections. Nobody would be able to find you.

Another Hamilton road that is about to become "lost" is Mt. Albion Rd. I think a good chunk of it will be closed once the Red Hill Valley expressway opens this fall.
 
No, they built the linc before I moved here. I don't get up on the mountain too often either. I feel sorry for the people who live on Limeridge though, it's broken into about 5 sections. Nobody would be able to find you.

Another Hamilton road that is about to become "lost" is Mt. Albion Rd. I think a good chunk of it will be closed once the Red Hill Valley expressway opens this fall.

I heard that too. I've only seen it times I was there looking at the progress on the Red Hill Creek Expressway.

I lived on Limeridge briefly in the 80s. A little later, I can remember a bus strike in the early 80s and having to walk about 2/3 of the way across the Mountain on Limeridge to get to the mall to play video games... several times. We had Pac Man fever. It was driving us crazy. We had Pac Man fever. Going out of our minds. Well... evidently! :)

Much much much later I was visiting relatives there and poking around my old neighbourhoods. It was getting late and I started back to their place by way of Limeridge. I was coming up to the intersection of Limeridge and Upper James when I suddenly realized at the last possible moment there WASN'T one anymore. I felt like Marty McFly in that scene where he gets out of the car in front of his subdivision under construction in 1955... except in reverse.
 
Maybe I've missed it, but... do you have anything of Limeridge Road before the Link ruined it?
I have been looking for pictures of Limeridge pre-Linc for a long while now, and they seem impossible to find. I live there, but I was born in 1991 so I don't remember what the place was like before the Linc was there. Does anyone at all know where I'd be able to find some pics of Limeridge before the Linc was built? I'm really interested in knowing what it looked like.
 
I don't actually know, but you could enquire at the main branch of the Hamilton Public Library. Some libraries have collections of old photographs, possibly including aerial views.
 
Given the relative, er, "anonymity" of Limeridge, I'd suggest to check if a public works department carries a cache of photos, because I can't imagine (esp. in a pre-digital age) very many people taking pictures of Limeridge on their own volition...
 

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