Another plane coming in for a landing.
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Golden Boy’s Backside
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Down at the old Ballpark
Forks map and the Museum
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There is going to be a really good observation deck up in that tower it has been said.
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Winnipeg’s medium height Skyscrapers.
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Times Change Bar and High and Lonesome Club at Main and St. Mary. I have been in there once or twice. The place is so small that the capacity is maybe 20-25 people. So to make any profit they have to get the lonesome clientele really high.
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Jet lining up at runway at James Richardson International. The logo on the tail appears to be United.
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Mist Fountain at Library Park
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Roof top patio at Cavern United
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Looking north over the MTS Centre roof
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New police headquarters building. I call it the black and blue building.
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More of those groovy clouds.
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The ultimate suck machine.
There are now three helicopters buzzing over Winnipeg on a regular basis. Two media choppers and the police helicopter. The police chopper, a Eurocopter EC120 Colibri, is in the air quite frequently. It can be heard and seen in the downtown area during the day and especially at night. Looking out for bad guys.
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The CJOB radio traffic helicopter and the Global TV News helicopter are Robinson R44s. The Global News morning show has great aerial footage from their chopper everyday. The show runs from 6am to 9am.
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Uploaded on Dec 16, 2010
Winnipeg’s CJOB Traffic Helicopter Evening flight in a Robinson R44 Filmed with GoPro HD Hero Camera 90 minutes condensed to 1 minute.
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A aggressive storm front rolled into Winnipeg on May 10th unleashing head bruising hail stones over sections of the city. The swarms of pestering hail stones made people and other animate creatures run for cover. When the barrage subsided there was damage to many vehicles that were caught in the stinging onslaught. A few birds may have been stricken down by the hostile icy hell stones.
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A victim of the hell from the sky.
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Crime in Winnipeg so far in 2013 is down in almost all areas. Auspicious start. Hopefully when the summer heat starts happening the criminals don’t start going berserk. Maybe kudos should be given to the Winnipeg Police Service.
On August 29, 1970 “Man-Pop”, Winnipeg’s first outdoor rock festival, took place at the Winnipeg Stadium.
As part of the youth festivities for the Manitoba centennial celebrations, concerts were held across the province all summer long and Man-Pop was the grand finale. The Centennial Corporation budgeted $130,000 for the event, expecting to make back $100,000 of that through ticket sales.
In July 1970 the lineup was announced. Headlined by Led Zeppelin, who ate up $50,000 of the budget, it also included an impressive mix of local, national and international acts: Iron Butterfly; The Youngbloods; Chilliwack; The Ides Of March; Dianne Heatherington and the Merry-Go-Round; The Mongrels; Next; Justin Tyme; Chopping Block; Sugar & Spice; Hay Market Riot (the local group, not one of the 3 American version of the band) and Euphoria.
Fifteen thousand people showed up at noon for the start of the eleven-hour concert but later in the afternoon disaster struck
in the form of a heavy downpour that lasted for over an hour. The field became a muddy pit, the concert’s power source was damaged and a number of bands, including Zepplein, has some or all of their equipment destroyed.
Maitland Steinkpopf, chairman of the Centennial Corporation, and his team had an idea: Instead of calling off the concert, start it back up again inside the Arena. Organizers scrambled to find replacement equipment and chairs for the arena floor. Dozens of Winnipeg Transit buses were booked to run concert-goers home in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Concert-goers were sent to the Arena but not everyone got a seat as the fire department locked the doors when the capacity reached 14,000 and threatened to cancel the show if any more people were allowed in. Some angry fans broke three of the Arena’s windows but there was little other violence. The Centennial Corporation offered refunds for those left in the rain.
In an organizational triumph, just three hours after the stadium concert was ended the arena concert began. It is said that performer
Diane Heatherington had to coax Led Zeppelin to stick around and play their set. They took to the stage around 2 a.m. and the concert got out after 3 a.m. Sunday morning.
By most accounts the concert was a success, despite the heat and humidity inside the arena. Concert goers realized that a show this size could not be re-booked and it was either make the best of the situation or miss out. Even among the bands there were few hard feelings. John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin told Ann Stark, Free Press columnist:
The expensive headliner Led Zeppelin wasn’t the crowd favourite though. Even Robert Plante said that he was unhappy with the makeshift concert:
The show-stealers were six-piece Chicago band Ides of March, riding high on their album Vehicle. They returned later that year to play a sold out show at the U of M gym and two shows at the Concert Hall the following summer.
Reports have been swirling that two new high rise buildings will be going up in downtown Winnipeg. One report is that one will become the tallest building in Winnipeg at 36 stories. The location of this building is being kept secret, but rumour is that it will go up directly north of the old post office/new police headquarters building on Graham. The building would be a combination condo/office tower. The other building would go up right beside the formerly named TD Tower at Portage and Main. The reported height of this building would be 26 stories.
Fortress Real Developments Inc., based in Richmond Hill, Ont., plans to build a mixed-use sky-rise at an unspecified area in Winnipeg’s Sports, Hospitality and Entertainment District (SHED) by 2014 at the earliest, CEO Jawad Rathore confirmed last week.
While speculation is that Fortress will erect twin towers 36 storeys high — which could make it Winnipeg’s tallest structure — Rathore hedged when asked about those details.
“There is a lot of chatter out there and people are pretty excited,” he said. “We are looking to do something pretty iconic and impactful.
“It’s going to be like a little city, but we’re still working on the design.”
The new football stadium (official name Investors Group Field) is 95 percent complete and will be ready for action in the next few weeks. It has to be ready for a huge religious event in the first week of June. I’m sure those event organizers are praying for everything to be on schedule. It will be a great venue and I can’t wait to check it out.
| Location | University of Manitoba Chancellor-Matheson Road Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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| Broke ground | May 20, 2010 |
| Opened | May 26, 2013 |
| Owner | Winnipeg Blue Bombers City of Winnipeg University of Manitoba |
| Operator | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| Surface | Turf |
| Construction cost | $200 million |
| Architect | Raymond S.C Wan |
| Capacity | 33,422 (40,000 with temporary seating) (football) |
| Executive suites | 46 |
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| Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL) Manitoba Bisons (CIS) | |
The facility will have very spacious and comfortable locker rooms.
Many airliners fly over Winnipeg. I ascertain they are coming from Chicago or Minneapolis going to the Orient?
Construction on Assiniboine Avenue of the 25 story Heritage Landing Apartment/Condo building.
The Assiniboine River.
So far 2013 crime rates in Winnipeg have declined from previous years. The reasons for this is unknown. A guess would be the freezing cold winter and non-spring, which kept the hoodlums inside. Also maybe the citizens are entranced by the very good year the Jets are having. Other reasons could be the ever increasing addiction to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
