Monthly Archive: May 2015

Shasta AstroDome Trailer

Shasta Astro

Today’s subject is a wonderful Shasta brand camping trailer found in a Calgary back alley. This retro gem dates from the early half of the 1960s and looks like it came straight out of the Mad Men TV series. Its shape and form, the paint, love that “speed” zig-zag, and...

East Coulee Alberta bridge

Out of retirement

Hanging with film photographer Robert Pohl (yes I said film), means breaking out the old Minolta. We’ll be forgoing all the conveniences of digital, wonderful technology that works so well in fact that it kind of makes us lazy and sloppy, to shoot a roll or two old school style....

Rosebud Alberta

Rosebud Alberta then and now

The then and now photos used in this post date from 1982 and 2015 and show the small community of Rosebud Alberta. The location in both is a hill overlooking the village, which affords us a good view of pretty much the entire place. In spite of the thirty plus...

Canal syphon supports

Wet Dreams

Constructed just over a century ago, the irrigation canal infrastructure seen here, located in the dry belt region of Alberta northwest-ish of Medicine Hat, near the former town of Ronalane, was never used for the purpose it was designed. This region is incredibly dry, but the soil good, and this...

Razors Edge Trail

Razor’s Edge

This hike we wanted to see if it was possible to summit modest sized McConnell Point (front ranges, Bow Valley, Kananaskis) starting at Barrier Lake, using a series of connecting trails. To mix it up it bit. And indeed it can be done, except we failed to account for a...

Rowley AB grain elevators

Last shoot with Sharpe

Nothing terribly new here, just some photos of Rowley Alberta’s grain elevators and train station, photographed a million times before, plus the interior of an old farm house. Okay photos I guess they mean something more to the BIGDoer crew and are some of the last captured on the last...

14th St SW Calgary

Calgary then and now – Miles for Millions

The then image in this post shows a Calgary street scene where we’re witness to some sort of organized walk or march taking place, and appears to be from sometime in the latter part of the 60s given the style of dress seen. Come with us as we revisit that...

1960s-1970s Peterbilt interior

Back lot Pete

The back lot documented here is home to a small handful of old vehicles, but two are real gems and include a vintage International heavy duty hauler and the star of the show, a classic Peterbilt. Located in a small town in central Alberta, these forgotten relics languish away in...

Hillhurst Baptist Church Calgary

Calgary then and now – Hillhurst Baptist Church

This then and now uses a pair of old images supplied by two different sources and shows the Hillhurst Baptist Church, today a bike/cross country ski shop, in 1965 and earlier in the late 1950s. One shows an overall view of the building, the second, a group of people comprised...

Locomotive being lifted

Aspen Crossing’s new locomotive gets delivered

Aspen Crossing, near the village of Mossleigh and not terribly far from Calgary, is a family friendly fun and entertainment venue, with a campground, a fine restaurant and numerous railway themed attractions (and much more). This group has recently acquired a stretch of track which to run tour trains, a...

Powderface Pass

Powderface Creek

Our planned destination this fine blue sky day (ha! that’d change) was the summit of a ridge that sits to the north of the Powderface Creek Trail in the Elbow River area of Kananaskis, where it tops out at a low pass. From there it appears a short bushwhack will...

Corral 4 Drive In

Corral 4

Built in 1980 and closed in the late 1990s, the Corral 4 was the very last Drive In Theatre in the Calgary area. Instead of one screen, they had four (hence their name). It was located at the far eastern edge of the city, an area today that is now...

Abandoned CNR line

Bridge Hunting – Rosebud River Valley

Canadian National Railway’s recently abandoned route in the Drumheller area of Alberta is home to around sixty bridges. Yes, that many, amazingly all along a stretch of line perhaps thirty or forty kilometres long (roughly). The track shares the narrow valley with the meandering Rosebud River and is forced to...

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