[flar]

The series so far:
Part I: Twilight of the Industrial Age
Part II: The Splendour of Durand
Part III: Jamesville
Part IV: The Infamous Barton Street
Part V: Locke St. South and Kirkendall
Part VI: Westdale
Part VII: The Delta
Part VIII: The Textile District
Part IX: Mountain and Skyline
Part X: Inner City
Part XI: Industry
Part XII: Where Dundas St. used to go
Part XIII: A Victorian Neighbourhood

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[smuncky]

awesome!!

i love this series.

thx for all the pics.

 

[ganjavih]

Best pics of Hamilton ever. Tourism Hamilton should hire you.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Indeed, just beautiful. Even some of the less glamorous areas find some level of redemption in Hamilton. Fun town too.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Hamilton Interlude: More good pics!

Flar: Just when I feel that you cannot outdo yourself you come up with another good set of pics! In Pic#8 that young lady is probably thinking "I've got the feeling that someone is watching me..." - a song from the 80s by an artist named Rockwell;#23 What is the building w/the fountain in front?;
#29-Street scene-RR bridge in background-where?;#35-right out of X-MEN!;#73-old row houses that remind me of Montreal-could it be that Parisien cafe there?;#74-Brownstones-it has a NYC look to them!;#76-a nice old brick building;#82-Is that the TH&B Building? and#85 from the Escarpment reminds me of my first HML impression back in '79 on the TH&B train. Good stuff all again! LI MIKE

 

[flar]

23: Old CN train station on James St. North. Now it is a banquet hall owned by LIUNA (labour union). It's nice that there's a use for this building, but it would be a lot better if it were still a train station. VIA makea two stops in Hamilton's metro (Aldershot and Grimsby) but the trains pass right by this station which they abandoned in 1992.

#29: Looking south down John St toward downtown. John was recently converted to two way traffic. The RR Bridge is for the CP Hamilton Subdivision (old TH&B line), just east of the Hamilton GO Centre.

#35: is actually painted on the side of a Wedding Chapel on Concession St. Some kid told me it was from an Xbox game.

#73: Parisien Cafe indeed, this well kept row of brownstones is on James St. South.

#74: is Sandyford Place, one of the units was recently for sale for just $339K.

#76 (actually 77) is the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. I often see movies being filmed there.

#82 (83) is Hamilton Hydro. Your guess was close though, the TH&B (now GO Centre) is also an art moderne building with similarly coloured stone. I'll post a picture later.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Hamilton Interlude Pics...

Flar: Thanks for the reply! #23 was the old CN/VIA Station on James Street North-I remember stopping in HML for a few hours one day on my September 1985 train trip and I remember remarking to the ticket agent about how much that station building felt like a mausoleum or tomb-it was so quiet. I am glad to see the building being still used today. Some of the station platforms and tracks were being used by CN for maintenance and were not used for VIA or GO trains-those two peak GO weekday runs that terminated there. LI MIKE

 

[casaguy]

Best pics of Hamilton ever. Tourism Hamilton should hire you.

Couldn't agree more. You've got a great eye! These are fantastic.

 

[adma]

Well, glad I turned someone onto the Corbgasm. (I told ya so. I told ya so.)

This building should never be cleaned.

This sign should never be removed.

 

[adma]

Oh, and one thing so far curiously absent from these Hamilton photo threads: the beach zone...

 

[flar]

The beach and many other places will be seen as the series continues.

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I almost forgot:

The Hamilton GO Centre (former TH&B station)

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Your Hamilton threads are flarrific!