Take Five

This was just a scene I happened to find interesting, if a little 'busy'.

Granville at Hastings St.

Old P.O.

Sinclair Centre comprises four distinctive heritage buildings. The most prominent is the old main post office, 1910 until1958.

I may have been in this building when it was the post office but the mental images are fuzzy.

In the day, when mail went by train, trains were loaded and unloaded at the rear of the post office. When the new PO was constructed a tunnel was built to transfer mail the mile or so from the old PO. About the same time mail started moving by air. The tunnel got little or no use except perhaps for storage.

Sinclair Centre

It's slim pickin's for photos these days. I took this back in December, on New Year's Eve apparently. 

The red brick building is one of a cluster of heritage buildings which at one time were federal buildings such as the main post office. Now they are offices, retail and a small mall with a food court.