Smevo
May 16th, 2006, 07:42 AM
Oddly enough, everybody in this town thinks everyone in the country refers to it as Freddy Beach.
City (2001)-47,560; Greater Fredericton-81,346
Whether or not I like this town varies from day to day, but it definitely is a nice place to visit, and it's my fiancée's hometown, so it can't be all that bad. It's a little different when you move here from elsewhere though.
No sign this time, just straight to the pics. :p
At the end of Regent St, the start of the access road for the Westmorland St Bridge (also called the City Bridge) which joins the bottom of Regent St with the bottom of Smythe St. The access road is closed off every Canada Day and is where all the celebrations go on.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046717.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048218.jpg
Queen St
Christ Church Cathedral, where King, Queen, Brunswick, University, and Waterloo Row all meet. (you may need a map to understand that one if you're not from the area)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048950.jpg
The Legislature Grounds
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048212.jpg
This one's actually on the corner of King and St John
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048953.jpg
Legislature
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048213.jpg
Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Hotel
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048214.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046718.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046719.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046720.jpg
About three gaybars have come and gone in this spot since I came to town in 2000.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046721.jpg
This park is the future site of the E-Centre development
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046722.jpg
Here's the rendering of the development
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/53289225.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046723.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046724.jpg
Apparently the top of the Playhouse is painted with those colored lines because someone visiting the city and staying at the hotel across the street a few years ago decided it would be great to project a certain kind of movie onto the white part of the building to see the "characters" larger than life.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046725.jpg
Officer's Square
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046726.jpg
Barker's House (and the video store where the aforementioned movie was rented hiding away in the corner)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046727.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046728.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046729.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046730.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046731.jpg
The old courthouse...now a call centre
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046734.jpg
New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046735.jpg
Old Garrison District
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047321.jpg
NB Justice Building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047322.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047324.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047325.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047326.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047327.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047328.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047333.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047334.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047564.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047565.jpg
City Hall
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047566.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047567.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047568.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047569.jpg
Frederick Square I (TD Tower)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047570.jpg
Frederick Square II is a 9 storey twin of this which is still waiting to be built...it's already approved, it's just waiting for the office demand to go up again.
TD Tower from Westmorland St...FSII will go where the gravel parking lot is now.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047583.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048224.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047571.jpg
The downtown Liquor Store
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047572.jpg
King St
Centennial Building (which I referred to as the big ugly black building my first couple of years in town)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048951.jpg
NB Power Building (BOM Tower...I referred to this as the big ugly white building my first couple of years in town)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046738.jpg
The old NB Power Building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046740.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048220.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046739.jpg
Carleton Place. I have to remember to turn off "snap to image" next time I'm merging.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048221.jpg
Sorry 'bout the blurriness, I was rushing a bit.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047317.jpg
King's Place
King Tower
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047318.jpg
York Tower
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047319.jpg
In between these two buildings is the alley that leads you to Dooly's poolhall
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047335.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047336.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047338.jpg
The Tannery...the place to go for nightlife with 6 bars on the grounds, two more next door, and another two or three on the next block over.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048223.jpg (http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048223/original.html)
Outside the Tannery
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047580.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047581.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047582.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047584.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047585.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047586.jpg
The Creighton "Luxury" Apartments...last I heard they were still overcharging and had a high vacancy rate.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047573.jpg
Place 2000...one of the three office buildings built by the government that people anxious to see Frederick Square II despise...even the general public, most of whom don't know or forgot about FSII don't like them.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048225.jpg
Looking East down King St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047574.jpg
Regent St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048215.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048216.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048217.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048956.jpg
Regency Tower (Commercial on lower levels, luxury apartments on upper levels)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048954.jpg
George St Middle School (a former FHS)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048947.jpg
Market Gate Apartments...actually on Brunswick St.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048948.jpg
Further up, Evelyn Grove Manor...a senior's apartment building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047578.jpg
Lion's Gate Apartments...formerly St. Dunstan's school
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047579.jpg
Carleton St
The Old Garrison District
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046732.jpg
More Carleton St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046736.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046737.jpg
York St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047320.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047329.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047330.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047331.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047339.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047340.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048222.jpg
Caribbean Flavas
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047332.jpg
A former Fredericton High School (FHS)...the church beside it wants to tear it down to put an expansion on the church...not surprisingly, there's a lot of opposition to it (with good reason). It serves as a hostel and community centre now.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048211.jpg
Further up...the Chestnut Complex
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048210.jpg
The old railyard grounds...still York St
Government building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048219.jpg
The old train station is in really rough shape...hopefully someone will come up with the money to restore it rather than have it fall in on itself or torn down...even if all they do is turn it into a museum or something like that.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048231.jpg
They might as well do something, since every development on the site surrounding it has to "fit in" with the train station or some crap like that...even though none of the developments there actually do. Just the usual foolishness to have tighter control over a certain chunk of land in the heart of town.
The old Hartt Shoe Factory on York St is being renovated into a retail/apartment mixed building...they should be done soon, depending on what they plan to do with the outside.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048232.jpg
360 degrees of old railyard grounds goodness
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048946.jpg (http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048946/original.html)
Skyline from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Campus
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047575.jpg
From the edge of Campus on Windsor St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048228.jpg (http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048228/original.html)
Tilley Hall on UNB...pretty much all of the buidings look the same...just different sizes and heights.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047576.jpg
Geology Building on UNB...only this and the Physics Building look like this on Campus.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047577.jpg
An old school on Charlotte St.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048209.jpg
Regency Landing Condos almost finished...[Upper] Carleton St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048229.jpg
Aberdeen StAnother Apartment building being built near where I live...same old 4-storey crap all over the city...they could really combat quite a bit of the city's sprawl by encouraging many of these to go 2-3 floors taller. Even if each 4-storey apartment building in town was just 1 floor taller, it could have eliminated 15-20 of these buildings...theoretically.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048230.jpg
That's all for the city tours for now. The Moncton, Saint John, Miramichi tour I was planning for this coming long weekend had to be rescheduled...probably Canada Day. :frog:
City (2001)-47,560; Greater Fredericton-81,346
Whether or not I like this town varies from day to day, but it definitely is a nice place to visit, and it's my fiancée's hometown, so it can't be all that bad. It's a little different when you move here from elsewhere though.
No sign this time, just straight to the pics. :p
At the end of Regent St, the start of the access road for the Westmorland St Bridge (also called the City Bridge) which joins the bottom of Regent St with the bottom of Smythe St. The access road is closed off every Canada Day and is where all the celebrations go on.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046717.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048218.jpg
Queen St
Christ Church Cathedral, where King, Queen, Brunswick, University, and Waterloo Row all meet. (you may need a map to understand that one if you're not from the area)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048950.jpg
The Legislature Grounds
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048212.jpg
This one's actually on the corner of King and St John
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048953.jpg
Legislature
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048213.jpg
Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Hotel
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048214.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046718.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046719.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046720.jpg
About three gaybars have come and gone in this spot since I came to town in 2000.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046721.jpg
This park is the future site of the E-Centre development
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046722.jpg
Here's the rendering of the development
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/53289225.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046723.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046724.jpg
Apparently the top of the Playhouse is painted with those colored lines because someone visiting the city and staying at the hotel across the street a few years ago decided it would be great to project a certain kind of movie onto the white part of the building to see the "characters" larger than life.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046725.jpg
Officer's Square
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046726.jpg
Barker's House (and the video store where the aforementioned movie was rented hiding away in the corner)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046727.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046728.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046729.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046730.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046731.jpg
The old courthouse...now a call centre
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046734.jpg
New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046735.jpg
Old Garrison District
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047321.jpg
NB Justice Building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047322.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047324.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047325.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047326.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047327.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047328.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047333.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047334.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047564.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047565.jpg
City Hall
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047566.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047567.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047568.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047569.jpg
Frederick Square I (TD Tower)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047570.jpg
Frederick Square II is a 9 storey twin of this which is still waiting to be built...it's already approved, it's just waiting for the office demand to go up again.
TD Tower from Westmorland St...FSII will go where the gravel parking lot is now.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047583.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048224.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047571.jpg
The downtown Liquor Store
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047572.jpg
King St
Centennial Building (which I referred to as the big ugly black building my first couple of years in town)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048951.jpg
NB Power Building (BOM Tower...I referred to this as the big ugly white building my first couple of years in town)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046738.jpg
The old NB Power Building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046740.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048220.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046739.jpg
Carleton Place. I have to remember to turn off "snap to image" next time I'm merging.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048221.jpg
Sorry 'bout the blurriness, I was rushing a bit.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047317.jpg
King's Place
King Tower
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047318.jpg
York Tower
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047319.jpg
In between these two buildings is the alley that leads you to Dooly's poolhall
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047335.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047336.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047338.jpg
The Tannery...the place to go for nightlife with 6 bars on the grounds, two more next door, and another two or three on the next block over.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048223.jpg (http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048223/original.html)
Outside the Tannery
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047580.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047581.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047582.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047584.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047585.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047586.jpg
The Creighton "Luxury" Apartments...last I heard they were still overcharging and had a high vacancy rate.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047573.jpg
Place 2000...one of the three office buildings built by the government that people anxious to see Frederick Square II despise...even the general public, most of whom don't know or forgot about FSII don't like them.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048225.jpg
Looking East down King St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047574.jpg
Regent St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048215.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048216.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048217.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048956.jpg
Regency Tower (Commercial on lower levels, luxury apartments on upper levels)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048954.jpg
George St Middle School (a former FHS)
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048947.jpg
Market Gate Apartments...actually on Brunswick St.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048948.jpg
Further up, Evelyn Grove Manor...a senior's apartment building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047578.jpg
Lion's Gate Apartments...formerly St. Dunstan's school
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047579.jpg
Carleton St
The Old Garrison District
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046732.jpg
More Carleton St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046736.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60046737.jpg
York St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047320.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047329.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047330.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047331.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047339.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047340.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048222.jpg
Caribbean Flavas
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047332.jpg
A former Fredericton High School (FHS)...the church beside it wants to tear it down to put an expansion on the church...not surprisingly, there's a lot of opposition to it (with good reason). It serves as a hostel and community centre now.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048211.jpg
Further up...the Chestnut Complex
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048210.jpg
The old railyard grounds...still York St
Government building
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048219.jpg
The old train station is in really rough shape...hopefully someone will come up with the money to restore it rather than have it fall in on itself or torn down...even if all they do is turn it into a museum or something like that.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048231.jpg
They might as well do something, since every development on the site surrounding it has to "fit in" with the train station or some crap like that...even though none of the developments there actually do. Just the usual foolishness to have tighter control over a certain chunk of land in the heart of town.
The old Hartt Shoe Factory on York St is being renovated into a retail/apartment mixed building...they should be done soon, depending on what they plan to do with the outside.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048232.jpg
360 degrees of old railyard grounds goodness
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048946.jpg (http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048946/original.html)
Skyline from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Campus
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047575.jpg
From the edge of Campus on Windsor St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048228.jpg (http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048228/original.html)
Tilley Hall on UNB...pretty much all of the buidings look the same...just different sizes and heights.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047576.jpg
Geology Building on UNB...only this and the Physics Building look like this on Campus.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60047577.jpg
An old school on Charlotte St.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048209.jpg
Regency Landing Condos almost finished...[Upper] Carleton St
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048229.jpg
Aberdeen StAnother Apartment building being built near where I live...same old 4-storey crap all over the city...they could really combat quite a bit of the city's sprawl by encouraging many of these to go 2-3 floors taller. Even if each 4-storey apartment building in town was just 1 floor taller, it could have eliminated 15-20 of these buildings...theoretically.
http://www.pbase.com/smevo/image/60048230.jpg
That's all for the city tours for now. The Moncton, Saint John, Miramichi tour I was planning for this coming long weekend had to be rescheduled...probably Canada Day. :frog: