A Sunny Visual Bundle

These days have not been all that warm, yet they are getting longer. This was a day in which it was rather nice as the sun finally did come out. In meeting someone within the school board here I was able to peruse within.

Years ago it had been a department store, which was called Eatons. This distinctive corner building has had three owners, but it still retains much of its original look. It was opened on December 4, 1928 as the T. Eaton Company's "most western" location, on the site of the 1903-1911 city hall. The building had mahogany counters, marble paneled stairwells, and the city’s very first escalator, made of wood, which is still in place. After Eatons relocated to Midtown Plaza Shopping Center in 1970, the building was home to the Army & Navy department store for over 30 years. Most recently it has found new life as the home of the Saskatoon Public School Board. Within the early 90’s when the economy declined for a few years the building stood vacant for years upon years and then a developer took it on with the assistance of the city and it became officially the headquarters for the School Board.

Buildings they are something I do love and what I loved with what was done here by the city was that several things were kept – while there was completely new things placed in all with the exception of an escalator which was far too expensive to incorporate. Yet it was rather interesting to obtain a picture of it. At lunch I headed over to one of the very first condo, which was built here. I recall while going to university within the spring of laying and studying and watching it being built. It was the talk of the town as then it was a more laid back city – yet now it’s one that is mover very rapidly. Brick and Mortar and the manner in which one makes decisions on how to redevelop are pinnacle to the landscape of any place.

It was a chilly day but a construction kind of day.