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General Waterloo Region Heritage
#16
You are likely referring to Norman
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#17
Yes, probably Norman. There used to be one house on a corner lot at Westmount and Norman facing Westmount, and now there are (soon to be) two homes on the same lot facing Norman.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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#18
I seem to recall a huge 1950s (?) ranch style bungalow on that lot. It sat unsold for a very long time. (If I have the location correct)
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#19
484 and 474 Queen St S (next to Schneider Haus) have had a demolition fence up for at least a week.

According to Kitchener's active permit system the demolition permits were issued yesterday.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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#20
(04-21-2018, 11:31 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: 484 and 474 Queen St S (next to Schneider Haus) have had a demolition fence up for at least a week.

According to Kitchener's active permit system the demolition permits were issued yesterday.

The right to demo were given by Council back in fall 2017 I believe.
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#21
Wasn't sure where this fit. Utility box decorated with historical images of Uptown now in place along the new streetscape:
   
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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#22
Is it just this single one? Or are there a number of them?
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#23
There is at least one other across the street. You can see it in the background on the middle-right.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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#24
The picket fence is now up for the Schneider Haus new garden.

   
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#25
Kitchener-Waterloo circa 1940 as reported in Maclean's Magazine, July 15, 1940.


Quote:When these folks want something, they go after it. Right now they want Number Seven Highway paved throughout, between Kitchener and Sarnia. There is a seventeen-mile stretch of gravel that Kitchener folks would like to see covered with more permanent material. If they don’t get action soon, they are quite capable of going out and paving it themselves.


The article also includes a pretty good roll call of the various industrial, commercial and public operations that were active at the time.
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#26
(07-27-2019, 01:26 AM)nms Wrote: Kitchener-Waterloo circa 1940 as reported in Maclean's Magazine, July 15, 1940.


Quote:When these folks want something, they go after it. Right now they want Number Seven Highway paved throughout, between Kitchener and Sarnia. There is a seventeen-mile stretch of gravel that Kitchener folks would like to see covered with more permanent material. If they don’t get action soon, they are quite capable of going out and paving it themselves.


The article also includes a pretty good roll call of the various industrial, commercial and public operations that were active at the time.

Terrific find!  Change the names of manufacturing companies to those of high tech companies and start ups and you could almost write the same article about K-W today.  I hope that K-W never loses it's "can do" spirit.
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#27
Quote:There has been in the past talk of amalgamation, and the issue still lives, although it is not now in the foreground of civic affairs. The general feeling seems to be: “We’re getting along all right as things are, so what’s the sense of starting anything?”

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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#28
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/building-wat...0?aff=eand

The Architectural Conservancy Ontario is hosting a series of walking tours around Uptown Waterloo. The first one is this afternoon.
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#29
Waterloo plans to spend $3M to renovate the old Waterloo Library.
https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-new...ft-1856468
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#30
Waterloo seems to have deep pockets I wonder where they find all the money
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