Statistics: Posted by Admin — Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:00 am
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Man that brought back memories of my school and family visits in the 60's to that attraction. Back then it was a very popular family outing destination. We pick-niked in the park among other things
We only occupied the main floor but be had the run of the entire place. We were really were through entire facility because part of the deal was we were to cannibalize anything we needed throughout the entire place for our uses. We removed and installed many lighting fixture etc into the area we used.
It is massive inside brewing buildings, with very little light in most of the place. I never did completely feel comfortable that I knew where I was going at any given time. A couple of the guys got right into it and kinda became "brewery rats" as it were, and really knew their way around. The place was substantially as it was when the doors were locked in 1994[?] calendars on the wall, chemicals in the lab cabinets. Very much a time capsule but not that old. There is an add on office area that is 3 of 4 stories with offices that looked to have been built in the 30's. Each office had it's own washroom complete with 1930's sinks and fixtures. They were odd in that they didn't match the floors of the buildings that they were built on to. Up on the top 2[?] floors of the brewing towers there were some new additions complete with massive tanks that had never been used as well as upper floors that were built with no tanks installed yet.
Down in the bowels were almost catacombs of areas where I really got lost.
There is the old Alpine style hospitality room that was pretty spiffy in its time that I remember attending events in that has fallen into complete disrepair which is a shame.
And we went down the round stairs deep into the well where they got their water for the brew, supposedly it at one time had some properties that made a better beer. If anyone recalls the old motto: "It's the Water". One of our fellows recalled that the story on well now was after the Petro Canada tower went in down town it disturbed something and the water was never the same.
The manager lady who initially showed us around on the first day remarked that she shows people through there quite often but rarely had the pleasure of touring as knowledgeable a group of Calgarians around as this bunch of Harley trash
We did not get into to front office building with the Buffalo heads as it seemed that is was occupied. I think it was just administration for the entity of the brewery lands staffed by some folks that didn't have too much to do.
Statistics: Posted by 00fxd — Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:46 pm
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View of South East corner
ca. 1923-1932
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South side of property
1940s
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Aquarium
1960s
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Statistics: Posted by Chris E — Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:08 pm
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In this case, the reddish areas are between around 1952 and 1972, and the blue areas are from 1972 to the present. Uncoloured areas are pre-1950's.
With the one area with the diagonally striped markings, the building above that section used to extend through that area, but an addition comprising
of the striped plus blue areas to the left were put in, its unknown if the old section was torn down to built that new section, or if it's inside the new section.
In this case the colouring is somewhat reversed, and includes the rest of the 'block'.
These structures in the foreground were torn down sometime between 1951 and 1972.
~1905
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Both of these are from approx the same view. In historic photo, buildings to the right of the stack have been demolished, whereas buildings to the left are apparently
still intact underneath the metal siding.
Industries in East Calgary, looking East. Only the Brewery remains.
Helen Cross laying the cornerstone for the Brewery office building in 1907.
In 1956 she again participated in the dedication of the office extension.
Time capsule being placed in 1956, wonder if it's still there.
Calgary Brewing & Malting company logo on Brewery office
Old and new office sections
Old trading post cabins from circa 1870s, one on right is behind the Dean house in Inglewood today, one on left was moved to brewery site in the 1930s
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One of the Brewery garden bridges, 1970s
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Statistics: Posted by Chris E — Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:59 pm
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