Downtown Oshawa: 43 pictures!

[Brighter Hell]

the east end of the GTA is anchored by oshawa, a working class town that's been the butt of more than a few jokes. and GM isn't helping by closing their best performing plant. but it has more character than mississauga

oshawa's a good place for those of you who like grit. some pics from a saturday afternoon in the fall...

once a place for the rich to be seen, then seedy underbelly, soon home to durham college and UOIT students.

slabtacular!

simcoe st

back to king st

oshawa's fugly city hall

GM ads on a bus station. welcome to oshawa.

residential conversion

 

[ganjavih]

Thanks for the tour. Don't think I've ever passed through downtown Oshawa.

 

[miketoronto]

Downtown Oshawa is not bad. But it has declined. The opening of Oshawa Centre Mall, a like 10min walk from downtown Oshawa did not really help.

Although I guess things are looking up now.

 

[Darkstar416]

I haven't been downtown Oshawa since the mid-90s. I must say it does look better than I remember it.

BTW, was this building used as a nighclub at one time?

 

[Suicidal Gingerbread Man]

Thanks for the pics.

I enjoy Oshawa. The downtown is worrying though, with its trend toward discount stores and methadone clinics.

 

[jeicow]

I enjoy Oshawa. The downtown is worrying though, with its trend toward discount stores and methadone clinics.

I just pray this isn't close to downtown.
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Wal-Mart to introduce super grocery stores

John Stewart
Dec 14, 2005

Wal-Mart Canada may well launch a new round of store wars when they bring a massive supercentre concept to this country.

Supercentres, stores concentrating predominantly on groceries that are twice as large as standard Wal-Mart stores, have flourished in the United States where they are now number one in the sector. Critics say the American retail giant's foray into food has severely damaged many other chains in the U.S., where Wal-Mart now has the majority share of the market.

Andrew Pelletier, Wal-Mart's Director of Corporate Affairs, said the new stores will likely be about 190,000 square feet in size, compared to 120,000 square feet for a regular store.

While groceries are already sold at most of the firm's 256 Canadian stores, the new supercentres will sell fresh produce and meats and will include a bakery and delicatessen along with clothing, electronics and home design products.

Applications are already underway to open the first two supercentres in Oshawa and in London, Ontario in about a year.

Canada's leading grocery chains, Loblaws and Sobey's, have known for some time that the Wal-Mart challenge was coming. That's why they have both established super-stores of their own, which feature a variety of products, including clothing and home decor, which they originally did not sell in their stores.

Wal-Mart's headquarters are located in Mississauga. The company has been based in Mississauga since it first came to Canada in 1994.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Why wasn't UOIT built downtown? Well, I know why, but was it even considered?

 

[Team Critter]

Yep Darkstar...the Regent Concert Theatre nightclub. I remember it from back in the day probably around the mid ninties. The two big clubs out in Oshawa were Regent and Illusions.

 

[Darkstar416]

Ahh, then my fuzzy memory serves me right. I did indeed spend a night clubbing to some Brit-centric indie rock back there in the mid-90s. I don't remember the name "The Regent," but it must have been it. It looks very familiar.