Winnipeg Walking Video 8 - Downtown Winnipeg - Main Street and King Street - Winter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Winter Winnipeg Walking Video 8!
Started at Broadway and Main Street, then wandered along Main Street, through downtown Winnipeg, and back along King Street, enjoying some of the west Exchange District on the way back to Broadway.
Got stopped by a traveller from Calgary that had some great questions, none of which we had the answers to! A historian I am not!! Haha.
Some places we passed by: the Manitoba Club, Union Station, VJ’s Drive In, Johnny G’s, Modern Electric Lunch, Times Chang’d, Portage and Main, Parlour Coffee, Community Gym, Pantages Theatre, Centennial Concert Hall, Planetarium, Manitoba Museum, Donair Guys, Sk8, United Way, Chinatown, the Dynasty Building, Red River College Campus, Miss Browns, City Hall, Old Market Square, the Cube, Peasant Cookery, Bodegoes, Amsterdam Tea Room, Lark, the Haberdashery, Saint, the Albert Hotel, ShawarmaKhan, the Pyramid Cabaret, the Hotel Fort Garry.
And as in nearly all my videos, art abounds in Winnipeg’s downtown/Exchange District. How lucky are we!?!?
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Jan 9, 2021, 0 degrees celcius, 10:00 am.
Wow! I'm from Toronto and lived in Winnipeg from 82 to 89. Main Street sure has changed. I'm blown away by the condos and revitalization that's happened down there. I worked in the Commodity Exchange tower and I used to take a bus from Inkster and Keewatin, back when that area was new. Thanks for the memories and for showing me how the city has changed. Winnipeg will always have a place in my heart.
Lol that f bomb at the beginning
This reminded me of the many years I spent in Winnipeg growing up. I’ve been in many of those building you walked past on Main Street and also Notre Dame. Some of those old building I could almost smell the mustiness. They mostly lacked good ventilation inside and usually had boilers providing radiator heat. One time many years ago almost all of the core area was heated by a underground core City boiler system providing heat to many buildings in and around the Exchange District.
A lot nicer on main from when I lived there in the mid-seventies. Mostly run down beer parlours and greasy spoons north of the museum and planetarium. The good ole hug n slugs as we used to say. LOL
I enjoyed living in Winnipeg 54 to 1983.
Thank you for nice video, in a future my family is going to move to Winnipeg, and i like to watch your videos about the city🌁❤️👌
That’s fantastic! We just did another one, it’ll be posted soon. Do you know what area you’ll be moving to?
@@thisprairiegirl8511 Thank's for answer🤗 Unfortunately, we still have long emigration way🤷 and what exactly area we don't know yet, but in our plans is Winnipeg 😉 Wish you good weather and full battery for your videos for all of us😁🤘
Super! Yes I imagine it’s a bit of a process! If there is anywhere you want to see, let me know and I’ll go take a walk there. :)
A tour of the tunnel connecting City Hall to the Museum would have been fun.
@@Zeus0530 I’ll go underground soon!
Glad to see you get V.J.'s Drive In on camera!
I'll never be lucky enough to get here, thank you for uploading this!
You’re very welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Hey this prairie girl. I met you in the Exchange this past weekend. Don the Blue Bomber fan.
Hi Don!! Glad you found the page!! Go Bombers! 😁
I love this City
Same!! 😊 thanks for watching!
The Bankruptcy and Final Closing of EATON’s Downtown in 1999 was the nail in the coffin for Downtown . And the failure of Portage Place Mall. When I was a Little Girl my Mom Worked at EATON’s Downtown for 28years. In the 1970s& 1980s Winnipeg Downtown was vibrant and Exciting . Many Store , Restaurants and Movie Theatres were all Downtown . Also Nightlife. In the 1990s that started to slide . Today in 2024 it’s not so good anymore .
Thank you so much. In a way you have finished a dream. I had recurring dreams about Portage and Main but did not realize it until you show it to us. I am so grateful. Blessings.
Much nicer in the summer for sure!
Yep, the greenery of summer changes everything drastically! Not long now.
Nice thank you so much !! Brings back a lot of memories 😢
Falling love with Winnipeg downtown, beautiful walk.
Thanks. Our downtown is growing and changing and a great neighbourhood. 😊
@@thisprairiegirl8511
Growing if crime in 2024😮
i love watching your videos. i couldn't get over how little foot traffic there was in a lot of the areas you were walking in. we used to live in central winnipeg up to the late 60's then we moved to the west coast. i still love it here and get back "home" to visit whenever i can. thank you for the awesome video. i do look forward to any that you continue to post.
44:30....Royal Albert Hotel. I live there. Haha
That’s cool! Are there any plans in the works to have anything open up there again? I think the last place was pierogies??
@@thisprairiegirl8511 The plans are in place to open the Royal Albert Bar after covid.
Seen some great shows at the Albert back in the 90s!
@@jackherer9550 Green Day played there in '94.
@@donseaton3180Dave Grohl Pre- Nirvana and Tool played the Albert and alot of other big names back in the day.
I grew up in the Peg during the 70's -80's when there was still some life in downtown. Things started going downhill after the opening of Portage Place where the life was sucked off the street. White flight killed downtown like many US cities where you had the donut effect. People had all their needs met in the suburbs and no longer needed to go downtown. One of the saddest crimes was the tearing down of Eaton's department store. Our controllers always re writing his story.
your so right portage was nothing but a drug infested place even on a good day and i was also there when they ripped eatons out of there my great grandmother immigrated from england to halifax then onto wpg where she washed floors in there and because of needing money for the family my grandmother felt bad that she was the only one in the family making money at the time that she quit grade 11 to get on her hands and knees to help her that was living back then. i do know and remember winterpeg very well. it's not as good as some might think .trust me on this.
I peg the last straw as the closing of Hudson's Bay...but the end of Eatons for sure kicked off the downhill slide.
I agree regarding the Eaton's store. Everyone thought Portage Place would breathe a new life into Winnipeg and it did the opposite.
@@markanthony3275I still cannot believe they closed that Bay store. I loved going down there. I worked for a time at 333 Maryland which was the WCB at the time and I used to go to that store all the time.
@@BunnyTheChi WCB almost right on the corner of Portage and Maryland? I used to pass by there all the time when I was going to trade school and residing at the luxurious Alf Holl Court apartment block about 200 yards north of WCB on Maryland...back in the early 80's LOL. I did go to the downtown Bay when I had a doctor's appointment at the Winnipeg Clinic right by the Bay Parkade probably about ten years ago. It was sad, there was only two floors of store left. I just wanted to see the fur trade murals above the elevators on the first floor one last time. I talked to a cashier who pointed out all the crappy impossible to sell merchandise that was collecting dust in display cases. She said they deliberately sabotaged the store by stocking it with merchandise they knew nobody would buy...and use that as a pretext to close it. Too bad! And now they are turning Winnipeg into one big urban reserve by handing them all these historic properties downtown. Now it's a haven for bums.When Winnipeg begin to refuse to spray for weeds and dandelions, that was a metaphor for the weeds taking over the city...weeds ...if you know what I mean!
Great video! Thanks for posting this for us : )
And right on the corner of Mac Dermot and Albert was a Restaurant called Chopins in the 80s and 90s long gone now but had great food 😂
I Smoked alot of Weed🦨 in the bar with Band members back during Prohibition and drank Whiskey out of the bottle upstairs several times🏴☠️ 🇺🇦🇨🇦🍻🌱🍄🦫🤣
Really good video - nice steady camera work, which is much appreciated for those of us walking or running "with" you on a treadmill. We'll be back in Winnipeg for a few days next fall and will undoubtedly walk these streets and areas, so thanks for the preview!
I'm still annoyed i didn't get to see the big Trex outside the Museum.
There’s a great set of bones inside!! Not sure I’d be allowed to film in there when it’s open tho. 😊
9:40 is EXACTLY what downtown has become!
nice video
Is it the coldest in January in Winnipeg? You can walk outside for such a long time. LOL
Winnipeg resident here. It’s not always brutally cold in January. While it can be -40 C we can also have days of near zero or slightly above as well. Judging from how the snow looks in this video and the melt water on the streets this was a mild winter day for Winnipeg.
@@d7458 how high are you its crazy cold in january/feb born and raised there how come you didn't bother to head all the way downtown and really show what goes on there? if your going to show mainstreet do it right to the northern hotel!
winnipegers cant be trused?...hmmm..instead of going around, why didnt you,use the underground walk-way?.you were standing right next to it. at P&M?
Cold but unlike Montréal not much snow !
We got lucky this year and didn’t have too much snow at all over winter, compared to some other years. Thanks for watching!
Miss your videos 😔
I live in Winnipeg since '69. I used to like it but now not so much. No one goes downtown anymore except those who have to work there, and those who don't work. Mayor etc like to talk big about how safe and great downtown is, but that's all business talk, no actual concern for your safety - hey business first right?! Anyway they talk about how to make it live again, with more lights, no barricades, etc, but I don't believe any of that will make much difference. I wouldn't move my business downtown just because of that, that's for sure. No, the real problem is never spoken because that's taboo. That real problem is the number of unemployed who menace downtown. YES, fix that, then downtown has a future.
Wpg downtown lacks condos downtown like many other big cities. Just relying on daytime business crowds is not enough to support good businesses. If there were more condos and people at night, perhaps Wpg downtown can be saved.
Oh Winnipeg downtown doesn't need to be saved. I've lived in the Exchange for 15 years now, before that I lived near UofW for a few years. Downtown has always had a solid community with lots of food, art, music, bars and 'life', it just wasn't open and accessible to the vast majority of Winnipegers who know nothing about it. But you're right that we need more condos. Luckily that's been improving steadily for about 10 years now. Almost all of the East Exchange is condos with more coming every year, and more are planned for the West Exchange along with other investment from UofM and RRC. So downtown is doing great and will becoming even better with each passing year.
If they had a mayor that wasn't scared to say that natives are causing a crime wave, there might have been some hope. I know people on the Police force...almost every incident they respond to downtown and in the North End is a native problem.
@@KarlHeinzofWpg
Downtown is now filled with crime
@@supremeleaderarmy9164 Downtown is filled with great people, businesses and culture.
@@KarlHeinzofWpg
Why lie? Anyone who frequent downtown knows its in dire need to be saved. You are DELUSIONAL
What a dump
I love when you disobey pedestrian traffic lights so you won't need to stop the video!
We are rebels in the name of video continuity!! 🤣