maybeedmonton:

Another view of Fort Edmonton and the newly built Legislature Building, Edmonton, Alberta, 1915.

ois:

This is the waterpark at West Edmonton Mall. It looks very different now, but this is what the tube ride looked like when I was a kid. I went on those rides so many times in my childhood, I can still picture every turn and waterfall in my head.

One time I got stuck and couldn’t get myself moving again and my family was swept onwards with the current and other people kept going past and none of the lifeguards were around to help me and I thought I was going to be stuck there forever. Tube rides still make me feel very anxious.

pppapaya:

I’ve always loved this mural.

Yep, makes me smile every time I walk by.

designator:

Sometimes it’s hard to remember that this is downtown Edmonton… (well, just down the hill from downtown) It looks like the middle of nowhere. Good?

I have a very distinct memory of my grandma insisting on us eating by this statue when I was a child.

theblanketfort:

Share a burger, enjoy some public art. (Taken with instagram)

maybeedmonton:

Dolores, the Studebaker, and a friendly deer near Jasper, on the road to Lac Beauvert, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, summer 1955.

beatingaroundthebush:

best of times in calgary

Bon Iver on “Calgary”:

This is an album about places — including Calgary. What’s behind that song? It doesn’t seem to be directly about Calgary.

Each song is different. Calgary is a place I’ve never been, for example. So I was able to look at it in a certain way. It’s like a wedding-vow song between two people that haven’t met. Having never been to Calgary, you tend to beautify it or put it into some form in your mind. When I think of Calgary, I think of an isolated capital city. I think about the Rockies. I think about high places. I’ve always sort of dreamt about it. So Calgary became this place that true love comes from.

Are you more eager to visit there now to see how it compares, or more wary of having the reality burst your bubble?

Kind of neither. If I went to Calgary, I would probably be there for a total of 36 hours. That’s not how you experience a place or judge a place. So it works just as well as a dream as it would if I moved there tomorrow and lived there every single day for the rest of my life. I would still have questions about it.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Calgary. I still romanticize it. There’s something special about that city.

Love this!

maybeedmonton:

“The first of a new monthly ten jam compilation featuring Edmonton talent. These little compilations are for everyone but they are mainly curated from the perspective of introducing the world outside Edmonton to the exhaustive wealth hiding within it.”

Get it on bandcamp.