Just for starters, they'd be astounded
at the space-age ways in which
home buyers can view more than
110 Parade entries in 2020. Video
and 3D tours, photo galleries and
even online tours guided by sales
representatives in real time are
literally at our fingertips.
Back in 1980, smart phones and
tablets only existed in science fiction.
Few homes had home offices, and
if they did, the desktop didn't hold
anything more high-tech than a
landline telephone and a clunky
typewriter.
If you spent a day in downtown
Winnipeg, you might have a coffee
at the counter over at Harman's Drug
store while you read the Winnipeg
Tribune — at least until the last Trib
rolled off the presses that August.
People shopped on Portage Avenue,
which was still lined with stores and
services — Portage Place was just a
concept — and the Winnipeg Jets
were playing their second season in
the NHL over at the Winnipeg Arena,
adjacent to Polo Park.
St. Vital Centre was brand new,
having opened in time for Christmas
shopping in 1979, and the Qualico
community of River Park South,
which now stretches from the mall
to the south Perimeter, was only four
years into its development. Ladco
Company, which was responsible
for Winnipeg's first master-planned
community, Windsor Park, in the
1950s, was still designing Linden
Woods, and the south Winnipeg
developments of Ladco's South
Pointe, Qualico's Sage Creek and
Manitoba Housing's Bridgwater
neighbourhoods were still
THEY'D BE ASTOUNDED AT THE
SPACE-AGE WAYS IN WHICH HOME
BUYERS CAN VIEW MORE THAN
110 PARADE ENTRIES IN 2020.
ON WITH THE SHOW
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6 Parade of Homes Fall 2020
