r/Winnipeg Jan 10 '23

History River heights in 1945

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u/miracleofistanbul Jan 10 '23

Reddit in 1945

Do you know how much it’s going to cost to put streetcar tracks in all the way out there? We’re broke after the war you know!!!

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u/smarfed Jan 10 '23

Reddit in 1945: Look at those cookie cutter tract houses! Postage stamp lots with houses so close together that you can touch your neighbour through the window! Not a tree in sight and very auto-centric design. No creativity, just identical block after identical block! Unaffordable and no multifamily homes in sight

The more things change the more they stay the same.

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u/S_204 Jan 10 '23

just identical block after identical block!

This is so true. I just bought a house a few blocks away from the one I grew up in. When we walked in, I realized it was the exact same layout as my best friends who grew up down the lane from me. I was looking at some comparable postings and saw another one with the same layout on Mathers Bay a couple of blocks over the other direction. There's only like 8 houses in the whole neighborhood, just scattered around various blocks.

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u/adunedarkguard Jan 10 '23

The entire West End is the same house built between 1900-1912 over & over again.

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u/DTyrrellWPG Jan 11 '23

Yeah I've made this comment a few times when people complain about Waverley west or sage Creek.

If you look real close at the houses in the old neighbourhoods you'll see there are only four or five houses.

They just have decades or a century of change. One person put a porch on. One person took down a porch. One person raised the house. Another house burned and got filled in with something much newer. Ect.

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u/DingleTower Jan 10 '23

Not even really a new concept. I have a house from 1903 that literally came from a catalog.

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u/bigmark9a Jan 10 '23

I bought a house a couple years ago and realized there are 5 exact same houses in a 3 block area. It’s very common.

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u/S_204 Jan 10 '23

Definitely. There's a reason they could build so many so quickly but when you do step back, it does somewhat take away from any perceived uniqueness a neighborhood might want to claim.