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vanished ottawa vanished ottawa home about contribute resources gone gone gone september 14 2009 well the inevitable happened the white house my favorite abandoned house and most frequent photographic subject was torn down sometime last month it isn t alone rideau fire the hulking brick house on first line has gone to make way for yet another housing development monster homes for people who want the country life living cheek by jowl with their neighbours in may 2005 i was lucky enough to have gone out to take photos of the old pappas summer resort cottages keep out they were torn down 5 days later posted by mudhooks filed in abandoned buildings history monster homes 3 comments fading ad blog june 22 2009 here is a link i meant to pass along when i posted the first time about the painted wall ads it is called the fading ad blog check it out it is part of the fading ad campaign check it out as well posted by mudhooks filed in wall advertising 1 comment 468 bank street june 9 2009 in researching some of the painted wall advertisements here in ottawa i came across one i hadn t seen before it was apparently revealed when the flagship tommy and lefevbre burned down earlier this year it was fragmented from earlier demolitions it seems and so only parts of the original painting was visible what was visible was very well preserved today i headed down to the spot to take my own photos of the wall it was gone mikeyg who posts his amazing photos on flickr had taken possibly the only photos of the piece which is now lost to history he very graciously sent me a copy so i could post it here 468 bank spring 2009 unfortunately i have so far been unable to find the names of the businesses advertised the horizontal one appears to be for auction rooms there were a number in ottawa though i couldn t find any mention of one on bank street the auto accessories likewise i was unable to come up with a corresponding business if i am not mistaken there is a building around the corner on flora or arlington which was a fairly big auto repair business dating back to the 1920s i wonder if they are related i looked through the city directories between 1901 and 1923 available online and while the 1923 directory is the first to list the address it is noted as vacant i may have to go to the library and see if they have the directories for the next few years my thanks to mikeyg for allowing me to include his photo posted by mudhooks filed in bank street fire history mcleod street mickeyg ottawa tommy and lefebvre wall advertising 14 comments imperial theatre june 9 2009 the imperial theatre was built in 1914 it closed in 1955 and was eventually reopened as barrymore s a music venue the former imperial theatre now barrymore s bank and gilmour interestingly the imperial and other ottawa theatres appear to have ignored the lord s day act as late as 1950 and incurred the wrath of the chairman of the motion picture censorship and theatres inspection branch he wrote the ottawa theatre owners the theatres in your city have been used on sundays more than any others in ontario and in most cases you have ignored our arrangement with the lord s day alliance of canada you are all familiar with the requirements they are quite simple you write me for certain forms which are to be completed twenty one days prior to any performance and they must be completed in full from this date should any of your theatres be opened on sunday for any event without the necessary forms being completed i shall ask the provincial secretary to deal with the matter imperial theatre sign this one was a smash and grab as i was illegally parked in a dodgy spot left the car running while i dashed to the corner and the parking authority guy was writing a ticket on someone a few feet away but i managed to get the photos i wanted and not get a ticket or the car stolen detail of the sign imperial theatre circa 1937 in case you are interested the theatre was showing forty naughty girls with zazu pitts 1937 and men are not gods with miriam hopkins gertrude lawrence sebastian shaw and rex harrison 1936 as run down as barrymore s is i am thankful that because it was purchased and the facade kept more or less intact we still have one existing old theatre in ottawa one of the great tragedies is that the wonderful capital theatre which opened in 1930 with 2580 seats and was originally and loews theater it was the largest movie theater ever built in ottawa it was torn down in the 1970 and replaced with a forgettable office tower and a cineplex now gone as well for more on classic theatres check the cinema treasures website it appears to be down at the moment i hope this is temporary archives of ontario posted by mudhooks filed in bank street gilmour street ottawa theatres wall advertising 9 comments g a snider photographer june 9 2009 i don t know much about g a snider there are a number of fonds at the national archives of canada which contain examples of his work his shop was at 134 bank street and then at 123 he lived i believe on rideau terrace in new edinburgh the rest of the photos can be seen here bank and laurier streets sign visible half way up the block g a snider photographer i like the juxtaposition of the 100 year old sign and the satellite dishes posted by mudhooks filed in bank street history laurier street ottawa wall advertising leave a comment westboro wall june 8 2009 westboro wall circa 1927 this wall was revealed when a neighbouring building was torn down for many years it was only visible from an alley between the two buildings that s why i never saw it before unfortunately the building upon which it is painted is slated for demolition the whole westboro neighbourhood which has long been a quiet one with trendy shops is now busy with more and more high end trendy shops going in like many such neighbourhoods it is falling victim to its own charm and many of the charming old buildings are being torn down and replaced by swank condominiums and expensive shops the sign has advertisements for imperial premier gasoline and stevenson hardware stevenson hardware had advertisements in the 1927 history of westboro westboro wall posted by mudhooks filed in history ottawa wall advertising westboro 1 comment blackburn bros mica manufacturing 200 crichton street october 29 2008 as i mentioned in my first posting on this blog the year we moved into new edinburgh 1966 located on the ne corner of crichton and dufferin was the former blackburn bros mica factory i am not sure when it closed i doubt it was still in operation at that point and shortly afterwards the building was demolished the lot remained vacant for a good many years until a condominium building was built there for a good many years however you would find chunks of mica lying about between lumps of dog poo and broken bottles while new edinburgh is now a quiet residential neighbourhood it was once a thriving industrial and business area as well as the home of those working in the area rocklciffe village to the north which is now the home of mansions and embassies was once the home of those who were in service to the rich who lived in sandy hill and other areas of the city as well as government and clerical workers along the rideau river which flows just two blocks away from crichton street were heavy industry chemical manufacturers sawmills and other water powered mills located both at the rideau falls where the rideau plunges into the ottawa river but further upstream where cummings bridge crosses the rideau at montreal road rail yards for both train and streetcars foundries amongst others 202 crichton street or creighton according to the directory listing below 200 crichton street the blackburn brothers apparently also a mica mine in hull township i am wondering if this is the one now abandoned located near chelsea quebec my mother used to take us up there on field trips as well as her high school geography students and several generations of kids from our sunday school mica was a very important mineral and was used in a wide variety of processes including as an insulator in high voltage electrical eq uipment manufacturing capacitors for radio frequency applications used instead of glass in windows for stoves and kerosene heaters and in greenhouses pressed into a thin film and used on geiger müller tubes to detect low penetrating alpha particles in cosmetics used in the creation of interference paints used in heating elements as a substrate for sample preparation for the atomic force microscope and as clean imaging substrates in atomic force microscopy it has been used since prehistoric times as a pigment for cave paintings and in windows before the it was discovered how to create glass in sheets at the pyramid of the sun at teotihuacan near mexico city contained considerable amounts of locally mined mica in layers up to 12 inches thick it continues to be used by the hindus during holi in the pigments thrown during the festivities posted by mudhooks filed in crichton street manufacturing mica new edinburgh ottawa 16 comments categories abandoned buildings bank street crichton street fire gilmour street history laurier street manufacturing mcleod street mica mickeyg monster homes new edinburgh ottawa theatres tommy and lefebvre wall advertising westboro archives september 2009 june 2009 october 2008 blogroll wordpress com wordpress org blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed vanished ottawa sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy vanished ottawa subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started