{"id":636,"date":"2007-07-29T16:07:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2007-07-29T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T20:07:25","slug":"brewer-pavillion-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2007\/07\/29\/brewer-pavillion-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewer Pavillion #5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Brewer Pavillion #5<\/a>
Ian David Bl\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcm<\/a>
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Ian David Bl\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcm<\/a> is definitely one of my flickr<\/a> faves. His picture of the Brewer Beach Pavillion brought back some long-forgotten memories.<\/p>\n

Brewer Park is across the street from Carleton University<\/a> here in Ottawa. It is on the banks of the Rideau River and, at one time, had a sandy beach on the pond<\/a> where people would actually swim. When I was 5 or 6 I attended a camp in Brewer that was run by one of my parent’s friends, Mr. Joly. <\/p>\n

I remember very little of that camp, but I remember the beach.<\/p>\n

The beach itself was man-made, and surrounded Brewer Pond. The sand was trucked in and dumped every year, and was a pretty good example of what was a really bad idea. In the early seventies the pollution standards in Ontario changed, and the beach was closed and left to go fallow. Today it’s a collection of weeds and grass, with all of the sand collected and sent downstream by momma Gaia (or city workers).<\/p>\n

The pavillion, which housed change rooms, a canteen, and equipment for city-run programs, remains. It’s the only reminder of what was once one of the cooler inner-city swimming holes Ottawa once had, and now is used as a spot for local artists to leave their mark, and for local football teams to store their stuff.<\/p>\n

I sure don’t wanna see it back, but I remember it.
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Brewer Pavillion #5Ian David Bl\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcm Ian David Bl\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcm is definitely one of my flickr faves. His picture of the Brewer Beach Pavillion brought back some long-forgotten memories. Brewer Park is across the street from Carleton University here in Ottawa. It is on the banks of the Rideau River and, at one time, had a sandy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}