North Vancouver once ran a fleet of ferries across Burrard Inlet delivering passengers and cars to the city. On the Vancouver side the vessels jockeyed for space between a variety of vessels to off load their cargo. Foot passengers and cars had to cross the very busy CPR tracks that ran along the south shore, so… Continue reading A Tunnel in Gastown…
This guy is standing on the roof of the Kurtz and Company cigar factory located in the 100 block of Cordova near Cambie. Kurtz was the pioneer cigar company in Vancouver. Vancouver Archives photo: Str P71
Vancouver World November 30, 1910
Doing a quick run through in preparation for Wednesday Back by popular demand! Don’t miss these encore presentations of William J. Moore’s panoramic photographs in a digital blend of Vancouver today and the early 1900s. Wednesday, May 14 7:00pm with John Atkin Wednesday, May 28 7:00pm with Michael Kluckner Tix at the door | Space Centre
From the January 1931 Vancouver Sun and Google Street View
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I finally got myself organized and have posted my Jane’s Walk: Scrap Metal, False Creek, and Taxi Cabs: a walk on Vernon Drive It will be a walk the length of Vernon Drive south of Venables. We’re meeting on the south east corner of Venables and George Street, 7:00 pm. As usual, rain or shine.
Once you get used to the navigation it’s easy to move through the environments and it’s fun poking around parts of the old Hotel Vancouver and Hogan’s Alley. The spirit of both places has been captured well. Objects that glow are tapped to bring up stories, which in a nice touch, are told by etherial… Continue reading 1948, NFB and Stan Douglas’ New App
Digging through the negs I found this image of the mall looking west through the courtyard.
New apartments await buyers at 45th and Tisdall, just behind Oakridge Mall. At the time, without the Strata-Title Act they were sold as ‘self-owned’ apartments. Tisdall is still oiled gravel and the land to the west has yet to be subdivided.
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 