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Now how long ago was that? I remember the dealership, now that you mention it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/squeaky...@N23/lightbox/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/squeaky...ol-621806@N23/ |
My mom bought her Chevy Nova there in '75 I'm pretty sure it was still there when we moved out of that neighbourhood around '78 |
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Been a while........ Anyway, does anyone know if Gibbs boys club still operates in the Strathcona area? I used to go there often as a kid. Back in the day, there were so many kids in the Strathcona area with nothing to do and this place offered so many things. They took us on field trips. I remember going to Boundary Bay. First time ever leaving the neighbourhood. I remember the teens and young leaders who worked with us. I remember this one very pretty girl leader. Back then there was no such thing as hotness. Horny came later in life, LOL. Driving around the Strathcona area now, I notice it has changed so much. Not many kids and lots of homeless and way more First Nations folks than there used to be. I also noticed some yuppies....... strange the neighbourhood is now. |
car wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A11007.JPG Police officer inspects wreck on the Georgia Viaduct - 1943 Photographer: Jack Lindsay City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 1184-636 car wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A13544.JPG Accident at Richards Street and Davie Street - ca. 1940 Photographer: Jack Lindsay City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 1184-3227 wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A00580.JPG Wreck beside Georgia Viaduct - 1929 Photographer: Stuart Thomson City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 99-1915 truck wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A00641.JPG Johnson Storage Company trucks - 1927 Photographer: Stuart Thomson City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 99-1974 car wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A16951.JPG Wreck in the 1300 Block West Pender Street - 1920 Photographer: Stuart Thomson City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 99-3287 car wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A37188.JPG An accident near Granville Street and Connaught Drive - 1921 Photographer: Unknown City of Vancouver Archives, item # Str P409.1 car wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A37365.JPG Accident at 29th Avenue and Connaught Drive - 1914 Photographer: Unknown City of Vancouver Archives, item # Str P269.4 car wreck http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A13542.JPG Accident between a streetcar and automobile - [ca. 1940] Photographer: Jack Lindsay City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 1184-3225 traffic ticket http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A13056.JPG B.C. Provincial Police officer writing a ticket - [ca. 1948] Photographer: Jack Lindsay City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 1184-2695 stop sign http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A17306.JPG New traffic sign on King Edward Avenue - 1929 Photographer: Stuart Thomson City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 99-3641 directing traffic http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A01058.JPG Constable Duncan McTavish directing traffic at Hastings Street and Abbott Street - [ca. 1925] Photographer: Stuart Thomson City of Vancouver Archives, item # CVA 99-2391 vision test http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archive...ges/A35010.jpg Inspector George Hood tests a motorist for double vision - [between 1940 and 1948] Photographer: Llewellyn City of Vancouver Archives, item # Port P794 |
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http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/images/london_drugs.jpg CKMO's Wilf Ray interviews Sammy Davis, Jr. at the Commodore in 1948. There's something about Wilf that caught Sammy's notice! http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/images/wilf_ray.jpg The collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge June 17, 1958 http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/image...s-collapse.jpg 1961 Quote:
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89blkcivic, Since you grew up in the Strathcona-Chinatown area, you may remember this. I plan to go there sometime soon. :) |
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Stories, we need stories........ pics are nice, but recollection of old neighbourhoods and what it was like when you were young - growing up. I often wish I had spent more time with my father - talk about his experiences living in the DTES. |
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Ah, the Ho Ho......... we went there all the time. For every occasion you can think of. If someone died and had a funeral, they would gather there afterwards. Weddings, grads, anniversary, holidays, etc. Food was always good there. I recall it being quite big. Two floors, I think. Also, I don't recall it being called Foo's. In fact, I recall a restaurant named Foo's across the street. Perhaps they merged. |
I remember Ming's across from ho ho on Pender. Went there many a times for dinner |
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Anyone remember The West End Girls? A group of girls from Vancouver's West End had this catchy, but overplayed song. |
Tidbits of stories that I have heard over the years... My Grandfather was born in Vancouver during the 1930s and grew up in Chinatown. He was Chinese and spoke English and Toisan which it was the spoken Chinese language in Vancouver during the time. He grew up in a very poor family and he and his siblings would sleep on old mattresses filled with bed bugs. They would wake up covered in bites. For food they would often have to buy the old moldy bread from the bakery. People who were not Caucasian were not allowed in the pool at English Bay, but the man who worked there would let my grandfather and his friends in early before they opened. They would all urinate in the pool before leaving, because of the discrimination. He also told me a story of how in school, he sat behind a blonde Caucasian girl and got black ink from an inkwell all over her hair and got in trouble for that. In a factory that he worked in, as an adult he was making less than a Caucasian child who worked there doing the exact same job simply because he was Chinese and the child was Caucasian. We also have a Chinese family member that got buried into the concrete of one of the bridges. I'm assuming he fell in some how during construction. Our family isn't even our real family last name, when my great grandfather immigrated and paid a head tax they put the wrong name which was his middle name. (Personally, I do not mind it as it is now completely unique to our family) |
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Went through quite a lot of pages in this thread. I've only lived here for two years but I've seen a fair share of the city. But I never got the opportunity to see the before and after effects. To be honest I've never had that opportunity anywhere. I seem to move cities every 3-4 years. If anyone has any history of the neighborhood between main-cambie/broadway and terminal that would be awesome. I lived in a 120 year old house in that area for awhile and it is clearly visable how much things have changed in that neighborhood. The house is an artist residency now and a gallery. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/570...raffiti085.jpg I also stumbled upon this photographers flickr awhile back. He has a really great, intimate and well shot collection of vancouver from several decades. http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadag...7622101752602/ |
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It always amazes me to see how the neighbourhood you're familiar with has evolved. I grew up in Southeast Vancouver and enjoy recognizing the buildings and surroundings that existed then and how they remained the same or changed over the decades. Anyone recognize any of these? :) [View of road paving at the] Intersection Main St. and 34th Ave. [now 33rd Avenue].jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/m9sqzb.jpg [View of streetcar and businesses at] 49th and Fraser Aves. S[outh] Vancouver.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/znov7o.jpg 1st Ave. and Comm[ercial] DR..jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/29fp6id.jpg 10th Avenue and Cambie Street, site of City Hall.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/10r5owk.jpg 41st Avenue and Fraser Street (Municipal Hall South Vancouver) ca. 1912.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/i6auf6.jpg 41st Avenue looking West from East Boulevard ca. 1914.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/1zfh0uc.jpg 43rd Avenue and Main Street (Drainage pipes stacked) ca. 191-.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/mvox1c.jpg 49th and Fraser Ave (View of streetcar and businesses) ca. 1912.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/znov7o.jpg 500 block of Carrall Street, looking north toward Pender Street.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/11bqa12.jpg 800 Block of Main St 1968+2009.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/11lhqiv.jpg 4100 block of Main street looking Southeast May 7 1946.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/312vf6e.jpg 6306 Prince Albert Street (Women and girls sitting on the front steps of a house) ca. 1916.jpg (I believe this house still stands on that corner) http://i40.tinypic.com/2cibsrb.jpg A glimpse of the city from Stanley Park.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/2ljqf0k.jpg Accident scene at 41st and Prince Albert Aug 1948.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/2lco6yv.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/e8re9y.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/r2qglu.jpg An newly built shopping area at the corner of Cedar Street (Burrard Street) and Broadway.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/hu3on9.jpg Arch at entrance to Central Park, Burnaby.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/2u5yq6o.jpg Broadway and Com[mercial] Dr..jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/vxowa0.jpg Burrard Pharmacy [1003 Robson].jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/spdkz6.jpg Capitola Pharmacy and Apartments, corner of Davie Street and Thurlow Street.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/10qm78y.jpg City Museum, Art Gallery and Library, Vancouver, B.C..jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/ws8y.jpg Commercial Drive and 11th Avenue (Men erecting power pole) ca. March 28, 1914.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/313kdc8.jpg Commercial Drive and 20th Avenue ca. 1920.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/2hquki1.jpg Cor. 25th Ave. and Main St. Vancouver, B.C..jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/jpigcx.jpg Dick building at southeast corner of 9th Avenue (Broadway) and Granville Street.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/s4pgk4.jpg Entrances to the underground comfort stations on Howe near Robson Street.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/29u8vd.jpg Exterior of E. Trimble and Sons Central Meat Market - S.W. corner of Westminster Road (Kingsway) and 9th Avenue (Broadway).jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/2na339k.jpg Finished bitulithic pavement Fraser St. and 34th Ave. [now 33rd Ave.].jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/b661r7.jpg Fraser and 33rd. [Avenue looking] south.jpg (anyone remember the A&W on that corner?) http://i43.tinypic.com/a3hy6h.jpg Fraser and 49th. [Avenue looking] north.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/288sfh4.jpg Grant Motors, 49th. and Fraser showing sign, Home Gas.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/2mzlg6r.jpg Houses, Fraserview housing development, exterior 1950.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/2ccs2fl.jpg Joyce Street looking Southwest towards Carleton School ca. 191-.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/65sql4.jpg Knight and 41st. [Avenue looking] north.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/vfbj2v.jpg Knight and 41st. [Avenue looking] west.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/be995d.jpg Knight and 49th. [Avenue looking] south.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/s10qxj.jpg Knight and 57th. [Avenue looking] east.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/35i7mzn.jpg Knight and 57th. 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Co., Dunbar Theatre.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/33li7nm.jpg North east corner Columbia Street and Pender Street.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/kdwux0.jpg Park Avenue (Later Boundary Road) (Showing streetcar, overpass, road and sidewalk ca. 191-.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/2z5vk3k.jpg Smith, Davidson & Wright building [1190 Homer Street].jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/21nqkv5.jpg South Hill Baptist Chuch South Vancouver ca. 1912.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/20avq6f.jpg South Hill Public School South Vancouver ca. 1912.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/4udgud.jpg Southwest exterior of the Court House, viewed from the corner of Hornby and Robson Streets.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/iwj19g.jpg Taken for Duker and Shaw Billboards Ltd. 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Some of those buldings are still there. The first London Drugs...... brings back many memories. Any pics of Richmond circa 1960's? Rchmond was nothing but berry farms. |
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An old lady who randomly sat down and had coffee with me told me there used to be a car co-op garage somewhere near cambie street. A place where skilled car mechanics would help people fix their cars for free in exchange for supporting the garage with tools. They have a bike co-op here in vancouver, why not a car co-op? |
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