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Another one from the archives. Young United Chur

Another one from the archives.

Young United Church has been part of the community for 125 years. In that time it’s gone through many transformations, including a terrible fire in 1987 that destroyed the sanctuary and left only one tower standing.

While it may look different, it’s still a vital part of the community. The building not only houses the church, it’s also home to @westbroadwaycommunityorg and Wolseley Family Place, an adult education school, a daycare, Artemis Housing Co-op, and meeting spaces. In the neighbourhood we know it is as the Commons because it’s such a well used and well loved building where community comes together.

With expanded restrictions starting today, let’s

With expanded restrictions starting today, let’s go back in time.

While Winnipeg might not have specific “gaybourhoods” like other cities do, we have places of significance and West Broadway is one of them!

In 1982, Giovanni’s Room (you might know it as Gio’s) opened on the second floor of 275 Sherbrook Street. Happenings Social Club moved next door to 272 Sherbrook. The building was called Sum Quod Sum (I Am What I Am).

These spaces were the beginnings of the Winnipeg Gay Centre, which would become the Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Resource Centre, which would become @rainbowresourcecentre!

Gio’s moved to 616 Broadway in 1986 (where @artcityinc is!), eventually ending up downtown, where it closed in 2013. Club Happenings (which was now on the second floor of 272), closed in the early 2000’s.

272 Sherbrook (which is now 270 Sherbrook, not sure how that happened) has been a few different things over the more recent years (275 is a parking lot), including Creative Retirement, but the building is currently for sale.

📸 and information came from the U of M Manitoba Gay and Lesbian Archives.

Folks sleeping rough and having to use back lanes

Folks sleeping rough and having to use back lanes as toilets has become commonplace, and that’s not okay. It’s getting colder, there’s a pandemic, and we’re worried. Some members of the West Broadway business community got together and wrote a letter to our elected officials to add our voices to the choir that has been calling for meaningful policy change/creation around poverty, housing, and drug use.

This photo is like when you’ve been friends with

This photo is like when you’ve been friends with two fun and cool people from the start but they don’t know each other and you think they should, and when they finally meet and hangout they realize how awesome they both are and they do really cool things together.

Both @walltowallwpg and @pegcitycarcoop launched in West Broadway (this is the first mural that went up!), and it’s been so wonderful to see them each flourish and, more recently, collaborate.

Here’s to creative ideas and supporting the folks who make them happen.
📸: @travis_ross
#westbroadwaybeautiful
#walltowallwpg

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