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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
I would love to be able to visit pre-boom and pre-me Calgary in the 1970s. While I genuinely love Calgary in the present day, Calgary of the early to mid-seventies would have been a fascinating place in hindsight. Dusty old frontier town with a lot of its old buildings intact, right on the cusp of the first oil boom. The decade between say 1974 to 1984 would've been wild to witness first hand, although admittedly kind of depressing because I think we lost some great buildings.
These photos are great, Huntingwhale. I am guessing that many were taken on slides because they've really got a crispness and vividness to them. Thanks for posting them.
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Good eye. They actually originally were all on slides. After he passed away my uncle had a company convert them all to digital format.