I still laugh at the USAF having arresting cables on their runways.

By Bill-Muskoka (not anymore) on 11.03.08 9:10 pm
Just East of the Saskatoon Airport runways there used to be a field with bomb craters in it from WW2 training pilots that when returning to land would jetison any unused munitions before touch down for safety. Less weight and less worry! I would think that the area of 51st E and Wentz ave and Cleveland ave has been cleared of any residual remnants before it was developed recently. Just the same I would not be keen to buy there!

I still laugh at the USAF having arresting cables on their runways.

By Bill-Muskoka (not anymore) on 11.03.08 9:10 pm
Impressed! Now, I would expect that you would fit in well in my home town! We claim several WW2 heros. The one was the eldest grandson of a scout with Custer. He found Nagumo’s Fleet at the battle of Midway. I met Waldron but at age 13 or 14 months I of course do not remember. The other family were the eldest 4 of 6 sons of the town photographer. Two stayed on after WW2 and became instructors on T33s out of CFB Cold Lake. The one married Miss Canada of 1944. Her kid brother and I were pals. Location was on the 110th Meridian very near the 54th! By the way, John George was purported to have said when he was shot down, “I would give a million to know who that Nip was!” He allegedly ran the canopy back and rode the Torpedo 8 down like he was standing up on a horse like the proud Sioux he was! What the McGale’s war records were I never heard the details.
But I still remember the T33 knife edge over town low enough to see the markings on his helmet. We heard he was grounded for a bit for that one!

Try the photo of what purports to be an “abandoned condo tower site in Vancouver”.

First of all, it’s not abaondoned. If you walked by this afternoon, or yesterday, or the day before, etc., you’d see ongoing construction.

Ongoing sales have been suspended for the time being, but keep in mind that the units were to be sold at prices ranging from $1.4 million to $13 million. Anyone remotely familiar with Vancouver will tell you that the vast majority of those units will go to offshore investors. Furthermore, projects aimed at local homeowners are not being cancelled “all over everywhere” as you suggest. Well before the current credit crunch, a select number of Lower Mainland projects were already being cancelled because the cost of labour and building materials were climbing at an alarming rate.

PS Your comment on the Japanese market is devoid of wit. Shark fin soup is not a Japanese dish. Rather, it is Cantonese Chinese cuisine. Your analogy is pointless — sort of like saying Egyptian house prices stayed in the gazpacho for 15 years.

Gee, you’re smart, and sassy too. Actually, it’s a hole. And it will stay a hole. As for the soup: “Shark fin soup (or shark’s fin soup) is a Chinese cuisine delicacy since Ming Dynasty, commonly served as part of a Chinese feast, usually at special occasions such as weddings and banquets as a symbol of wealth and prestige.” (Wikipedia) — Garth