Monthly Archive: February 2015

Church Neidpath SK

Neidpath Saskatchewan

There is not much left in the ghost town of Neidpath Saskatchewan, just a couple empty houses, some crumbling foundations, a tiny church, and off in the distance, two old grain elevators. As abandoned and forgotten places go, it’s not terribly big nor all that showy, but for reasons neither...

Hussar Alberta elevator

Prairie Sentinels – Hussar Alberta

Not that long ago the small community of Hussar Alberta had an pretty good size “elevator row”, a half dozen prairie sentinels in a neat little line right beside the railway tracks. Fast forward to today and all but one of those buildings mentioned are gone, and the trains, well,...

Lougheed House Calgary

Calgary then and now – Lougheed House

In this then and now post we’ll be checking out Calgary’s historic Lougheed House, a fine looking palatial mansion, over a hundred and twenty years old. The first image is from 1914 and comes from a vintage postcard, the second, taken a century later by the BIGDoer.com crew, shows how...

GMC 470 truck

GMC 470

The fine old truck we’re looking at in this post is a late 40s/early 50s GMC model 470, found in a industrial section of Calgary. This brute is a tractor used to pull trailers and shared the same sheet metal as the smaller GMC pickups of the era. That’s why...

Flames Community Arena Pinball

Pinball!

If you want to play pinball in Calgary there are only a few spots where these machines can be found, one of them being the Flames Community Arena in the southwest. Owned and maintained by enthusiasts, they are kept in fine running order. Every now and then old machines are...

Cabana RV

Empress and Cabana

Making our way down a random street, as we are apt to do, in an industrial section of Calgary, we stumble across an interesting pair of motorhomes not far from each other. Both are pretty darn old, dating from the 1970s or thereabouts, and are known as an Empress and...

Linclon Ave Calgary

Linclon, or is that Ƨeventh?

This post has been updated and now appears here: Linclon, or is that Ƨeventh? (2.0) If you like brief articles like this, go here… Short Subjects. Short Subjects: reports that for any number of reasons are brief in nature. They might be updates to older articles, previews of posts planned...

13 Foot Boler

Highway Boler

Most of the time the Bolers we spot are parked, usually where their owners stores them – in such places as alleys, on driveways, in back yards or occasionally RV lots – and rarely do we see them on the road. But every now and them we pass one, sometimes...

Pleasington Lutheran Church

Pleasington Lutheran Church

The Pleasington Lutheran Church is a fine looking building at around a century old and is located in a wonderful and scenic setting on the big sky Alberta prairies. Lovingly cared for, services and community events, along with weddings and funerals, are held here on occasion. A cemetery next door...

Bonanza Restuarant

Bonanza

It’s been at least twenty years, if not a great deal more, since we’ve seen a Bonanza Restaurant. Remember that chain, all the rage way back when? You’d pair a steak (typically, since they were known as Bonanza Steakhouses) or some other entree, with an all you could eat salad...

Edmonton High Level Bridge

Edmonton Transit then and now – High Level Bridge

Welcome to another Edmonton Transit then and now post. For this one we station ourselves at the south end of the impressive High Level Bridge just opposite downtown. In the then picture, a trolley coach is seen negotiating the wicked s-curve at the end of that structure. Our goal, duplicate...

St Martin's Cemetery

Calgary then and now – Heritage Park cemetery and NWMP barracks

The then and now photos in this series were shot at Calgary’s Heritage Park. Captured in 1969 and 2014 respectively, they show a cemetery in the foreground and in back, a police barracks. Since nothing is supposed to change here, remember it’s a museum after all, naturally things today are...

Calgary Thorncliffe neighbourhood

Needle in a haystack challenge

Our goal here is quite simple. A viewer has sent us an old photo showing a Calgary street scene and we’ve been asked by them to find the location, as a challenge. They know where it is, we don’t. We’re not here to discuss the history of anything, it’s just...

Nanton Alberta grain elevators

Prairie Sentinels – Nanton Alberta

The Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre, a museum located in Nanton Alberta, showcases the once common prairie sentinel. These buildings, at one time, could be found all across the west – near every town in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, it seemed, had one or more – but today few remain....

Ft MacLeod grain elevator

The South Face

For some reason, which I probably can’t really explain, I thought it’d be plain and simple fun to dress up in climbing gear in front of a grain elevator, as though one was about to scale it. We’re always studying these buildings as we travel about, and we have the...

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