I’ve never lived in this city. Actually, I did live in Edmonton from
1959 to 1962, but the city pictured here was not there at the time.
The only structures in this painting that I
remember from my university days are the High Level Bridge and Provincial
Legislature on the far left and the Fairmont MacDonald Hotel, which is just
about exactly in the middle – and it is quite different from the MacDonald I
remember. Back then, the hotel had a huge ‘Brutalist’ addition, and the whole
structure was referred to as a ‘tiny perfect chateau and the box it came in.’
Anyway, the box has been removed, and dozens of much nicer boxes have been
added to form today’s Edmonton skyline.
Energy research is quite different from the
physics I knew back in the day as well. And when you can’t even remember most
of the physics you did know back then, well it’s a good thing there’s Google
and Wikipedia now...
