Historic street corner photos offer glimpse into Calgary's past
John Gibson | CBC News | Posted: November 12, 2016 10:50 AM | Last Updated: November 12, 2016
Beltline and downtown utility boxes wrapped with pictures from Glenbow Archives collection
A stroll around Calgary's Beltline and the downtown core can be a trip through time thanks to a series of historic photographs wrapped around several street-corner utility boxes.
So far about 60 boxes have been fitted with the special wraps, which have a 3M anti-grafitti film over top. So in addition to being informative, the boxes take away an otherwise blank canvas for vandals, said project manager Graham Gerylo with the city's urban strategy department.
Many of the photographs correspond more-or-less exactly with the street corners where they've been placed.
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