Is it a trick my eyes play on me, or does the street seems to have been narrowed between the two views???
Funnily enough I was just riding along Doctor Penfield yesterday noticing, perhaps for the first time, how this must have been a beautiful boulevard in its day. Same for that stretch of Pine Avenue. Now they’re just thoroughfares over the mountain.
Actually, Dr Penfield (previously known as Mc Gregor) only went as far as Simpson; the rest was punched-through in the early 60’s to make Pine Avenue a westbound one-way.
So it could not really have been deemed a boulevard…
Marc:
I think your eyes are playing a trick on you.
Although the angle of the two photos appears to be the same, the photographer who captured MacGregor Street (as Dr-Penfield was then called) and Guillaume were not using lensed with the same focal length, which may play a part in the road looking “narrower” in one photo as opposed to the other.
Last week, for the first time since I moved here, I walked the length of Penfield and des Pins and I have to disagree Leila. With the exception of a few 70’s slip-ups (what were people thinking back then ?!?!), I think that both streets are beautiful. Even the apartment in the photo is very elegant, just not in this particular view. There’s an early 60’s apartment around Redpath, about 10 storeys, that is gorgeous. The north end of du Musée by the Russian consulate is particularly beautiful as is the Polish trade mission with its crazy horizontal tree. The various stairs running from des Pins (3 or 4?) are cool too.
..and the Rutherford Resevoir buildings are awesome!
Is the gray building the one that used to be the US Consulate? I have some now vague memories about demos along (then) McGregor–there and at the Soviet Consulate also…
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Is it a trick my eyes play on me, or does the street seems to have been narrowed between the two views???
Funnily enough I was just riding along Doctor Penfield yesterday noticing, perhaps for the first time, how this must have been a beautiful boulevard in its day. Same for that stretch of Pine Avenue. Now they’re just thoroughfares over the mountain.
Actually, Dr Penfield (previously known as Mc Gregor) only went as far as Simpson; the rest was punched-through in the early 60’s to make Pine Avenue a westbound one-way.
So it could not really have been deemed a boulevard…
Marc:
I think your eyes are playing a trick on you.
Although the angle of the two photos appears to be the same, the photographer who captured MacGregor Street (as Dr-Penfield was then called) and Guillaume were not using lensed with the same focal length, which may play a part in the road looking “narrower” in one photo as opposed to the other.
Last week, for the first time since I moved here, I walked the length of Penfield and des Pins and I have to disagree Leila. With the exception of a few 70’s slip-ups (what were people thinking back then ?!?!), I think that both streets are beautiful. Even the apartment in the photo is very elegant, just not in this particular view. There’s an early 60’s apartment around Redpath, about 10 storeys, that is gorgeous. The north end of du Musée by the Russian consulate is particularly beautiful as is the Polish trade mission with its crazy horizontal tree. The various stairs running from des Pins (3 or 4?) are cool too.
..and the Rutherford Resevoir buildings are awesome!
Is the gray building the one that used to be the US Consulate? I have some now vague memories about demos along (then) McGregor–there and at the Soviet Consulate also…