This popped into the mail box recently. It’s one of the best/bad phishing emails received recently. Notice Alert!!! From: ozstudio@comcast.net Attention: Dear E-Mail Account User Last Reminder We are pleased to inform you that your password will expire in 3 days’ time to validate your e-mail, We are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance,… Continue reading “We are pleased to inform…”
Outside courtyard. Look at the unified signage for the stores.
Acres of parking and for it’s time, good planning too. Apartment blocks on the west side, low-rise apartments on the southern edge and then duplexes and single family houses to form the neighbourhood. Love the signage.
Here’s a shot of the original mall and its fountain courtyard. Interesting to see the mall redesign reintroduce the inside/outside idea of older malls.
Poking around the back alleys of the city and had to capture the Louvre Hotel wall sign again. As it ages the layers are revealed.
If you’ve walked through Mount Pleasant, you’ve probably seen and read many of these history plaques set around the neighbourhood. It’s interesting how short the corporate memory can be. A while back the City’s engineering department was busy digging up Alberta Street and lifted the bricks, carefully stacked them on pallets and carted them away.… Continue reading Where Did The All The Bricks Go?
So here’s an interesting nugget of info. This report from the Toronto World from 1913 describe plans for the Sam Kee building as a four storey structure. Now that would have been something. Unfortunately plans were scaled back. Architectural Oddity Being Erected – Over 100 Feet Long Construction is at present proceeding in Vancouver of a downtown… Continue reading Building Six Feet Wide in Vancouver
We’re looking west on Pender towards Main and these guys are working on the new decorative sidewalks in Chinatown.
Looking north on Columbia Street in the early 1980s. Con’s now has an extra storey on top and the Ho Ho restaurant sign, long gone, is just visible on the right. The new sidewalks, part of the beautification scheme have been laid but the overhead wires are still in place, and the Ginkgo trees have… Continue reading Pender & Columbia, Chinatown, Vancouver
The well used board at the Ovaltine Cafe.
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