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.
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.
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
The well used board at the Ovaltine Cafe.
Update: Check out the sign today: http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/may/john-tanns-ghost-sign-hackney One of my favourite pieces of old advertising is found on this house at the end of a small Georgian terrace at Hackney Road and Treadway Street in London which became the home of John Tann Ltd. in 1814. The sign was done in about 1890. Like many… Continue reading Reliance Locks on the Hackney Road
Here are a couple of photos way back in 2005 when we were able to explore the Post Office tunnel that runs from Dunsmuir to Cordova Street.
Science on the march in 1929. A gravity nulifier from the July issue of Science and Invention.
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 