Stylized postcard, date unknown<\/h2>\n
On the back on this postcard\u00a0is\u00a0a note addressed to a Miss Jeanne Casselman of Chesterville, Ontario that reads: “Dear Jeanne, I hear you are having delightfully hot weather down there, Do you remember that warm Sunday last summer when you and I were almost overcome with the heat? Write me sometime, Kind regards to all, Willie.”<\/p>\n A\u00a0grown\u00a0child writes to his\/her mother: “to-morrow or wednesday I tell you the news & how I am getting on with things in general. I received your last letter last wednesday. I hope you are all well & Dad is busy. love Prinee”.<\/p>\n We don’t know the photograph’s\u00a0exact date, but since the Calgary Tower is clearly the tallest building in the skyline we can say that it was taken before 1983. The was the year\u00a0the Suncor Energy Centre was completed and became the city’s tallest structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n Calgary’s first airport was located in Bowness. In the 1920’s it was relocated to the Renfrew area. By 1938, Air Canada (then known as Trans Canada Airlines) was granted a charter for transcontinental service and the present site was chosen. Its original name was McCall Field.<\/p>\n Give it up for early 20th century\u00a0puns.<\/p>\n Historic 1st Street with the Dominion Bank building and advertisments for business: CS\u00a0Lott Coal Shaw, and real estate agents Davis and Prickett.<\/p>\n Again, we know this postcard is\u00a0more than 30 years old because of the abscence of the\u00a0Suncor Energy Centre. As for an exact date, if we had to guess… July 1st, 1979? (Prove us wrong, internet.)<\/p>\n Since 1911, only three of the historic buildings pictured in this 1910 postcard have been demolished and replaced. The other five have been renovated for retail use. The original 1891 Bank of Montreal building was demolished and replaced in 1931. After the Lougheed Block burned in 1911, a new Union Bank building was constructed on the site and now houses the James Joyce Pub.<\/p>\n A greeting from the Stampede City courtesy the iconic\u00a0Colourpicture postcard brand.<\/p>\n This postcard was sent by someone who, evidently, wasn’t all that impressed with Calgary in the 1930s. Scrawled\u00a0on the back of the image: “This is Calgary all right. Actually all it has is the annual ‘stampede’ or ‘rodeo’s’ every year. Nick.” Hey Nick, that “annual stampede or rodeo” just so happens to be the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.<\/p>\n From the library’s archives: “Early in 1983, the Olympic Mascot committee, made up of representatives from major Calgary department stores, decided upon polar bears as the Official Olympic Mascots. Polar bears were felt to represent Canada and therefore a northern country within North America. For the first time in Olympic history, a male and female mascot were chosen. In December 1983, the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Zoo jointly sponsored a contest to name the brother and sister bears. Kim Johnstone, a Calgary high school student, won two tickets to the 1988 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremonies with her submission of ‘Hidy and Howdy,’\u00a0a creative blend of proper names and a typical Western greeting. The bears were designed by Calgarian Sheila Scott of Great Scott Productions and were worn by student volunteers from Bishop Carroll High School.”<\/p>\n The ski jump was built on top of the grandstand at the Exhibition Grounds at the urging of the Calgary Ski Club, a group founded in the early 20th century by a handful of Scandinavian immigrants interested in the high-flying sport.<\/p>\n Calgary’s second city hall. The first, a wooden structure built on the same site in 1885, was demolished in 1911. This building took four years to complete\u00a0–1907 to 1911\u00a0—\u00a0and suffered from\u00a0a 100 per cent cost over-run of $150,000, which led to\u00a0the firing of architect William Dodd. And by the time it was completed it was already too small for the City’s needs.\u00a0For the next 86 years, the city rented space to accommodate an expanding civic administration.<\/p>\n On the south side of the Elbow River over the Canadian National Railway yards\u00a0you can see\u00a0Victoria Bridge, Centre Street Bridge and the western edge of the Stampede Grounds.<\/p>\n The official description on the back of this postcard reads: “Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The 1970’s are bringing an unprecedented explosion in the industrial growth of Calgary; Canada’s fastest growing city. The skyline of downtown Calgary is a spectacular panorama of ever growing sky scrapers.”<\/p>\n The letter was addressed to a\u00a0Ms. Clara Philip. The sender wanted to know, “Which one are you?”<\/p>\n From the retro to the really old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":113482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11269],"tags":[],"coauthors":[10332],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Calgary](\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Calgary-historic-postcard1.jpg\")
<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nLooking east from\u00a0the corner of 8th Avenue and\u00a01st Street SW, ca. 1910<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nCalgary skyline\u00a0facing west, date unknown<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nCalgary International Airport, date unknown<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nBirds-eye view of 8th Avenue in Calgary, a “dog-on nice town,” ca. early 1900s.<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nLooking north on\u00a01st Street E, ca. 1913<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nCalgary Tower and skyline, ca. prior to\u00a01983<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n8th Avenue SW\u00a0near 1st Street SW,\u00a0ca. 1910<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nSkyline view, ca. 1949<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nYale Hotel on 9th Avenue in the foreground and the post office building in the centre, ca. sometime after 1931.<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nHidy and Howdy, “Welcome Bears” of the\u00a01988 Winter Olympic Games, ca. mid 1980s<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photos: Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nSki jump at the Calgary Stampede grandstand during the Calgary Winter Festival, ca. 1921<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nCity Hall lit up at night, ca. 1912<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo: Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nAerial view of Calgary looking north across downtown and Victoria Park, ca. 1924<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nThe ever expanding downtown skyline, ca.1970s<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Photo:\u00a0Calgary Public Library<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nPostcard from\u00a0Warwick Bro’s & Rutter Publishers\u00a0in\u00a0Toronto, ca. 1906<\/h2>\n
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