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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
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I believe the terminus was at the ballet building. If you look at the 1948 map here, it looks like there was a train yard where the Talisman is now with the tracks going over to Ogden -
https://maps.calgary.ca/Crowchild/
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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
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This is Stephen Ave facing westward (the photo is reversed) The building on the right, closest to camera is The Belvedere, then Original Joe's, Blink, Divino and so on
This is the same part of Stephen Ave except looking east (again photo is reversed) so that's Winners on the right, Patagonia on the immediate left, following by the little wooden building which is currently a souvenir store and is actually the oldest building in downtown Calgary (1885)
Trams ran down Stephen Ave back in the day. Here's a picture of the same stretch of Stephen Ave from the 20s. Again, Winners on the left (the immediate buildings on the left don't exist - they're now the Bank of Montreal building built in 1930 (now a gym I believe)
Thanks for the photos Huntingwhale. I appreciate what your grandad was doing. When I first came to Calgary, for a number of years, I wandered around taking a bunch of photos documenting buildings and streets in Calgary in the hope that they'd be interesting to look back on for future viewers. I haven't done it in years, but I need to go get myself a camera and get back to doing that. I love looking at the evolution of places.