Though, it's two sides of the coin. If it was built, you wouldn't see a lot of the Strathcona area/Van Eat history anymore. Plus I believe the hippies and opposition just tried to reject everything the gov does. :lol

Just noticed one of the Diagrams shows "Brocton Point crossing". I assume it's some type of underground freeway/train system that connects from the 401 highway to north vancouver. :/

Google Books has a book that covers the rejection of the freeway and the third crossing.

Vancouver Ltd - Donald Gutstein - Google Books

Vancouver Ltd - Donald Gutstein - Google Books

Wife went shopping downtown and I had to kill some time. SO...............



I cruised around and stumbled upon this place.

Driving down Hastings towards downtown, I noticed that part of the block with the London Drugs was fenced off and they had started to demolish some of the buildings. So far it looks like they are just tearing down the buildings between London Drugs and the Dollar Giant.
They tore down one building which freed the wall of the building next door and on the wall it says Coast Cleaners and then there is a 4 digit phone number (?)

MG1. Do you remember anything about this company? I'll try to get some pics tomorrow before they tear down this wall.

I used to visit Kuno garden (for obvious reasons) all the time when I was younger with my family, it was like a family road trip (my grandparents didn't drive much..) and they would tell me stories about how my great grandpa's boat was taken away in the war or how great great grandpa came over on a small fishing boat to Canada way back when. I recall the garden used to be more well kept, now there are some weeds etc growing in the dirt. Also I recall there used to be more fishing boats in the summer, doesn't seem to be as many boats anymore, if the fishing dying down? http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3389/4...68604cbd_z.jpg

I feel like a baby.

Maybe you should go help maintain it, if it means a lot to you.

That's was the plan once I graduate freein up some spare time

I live a few blocks away, so I went and snapped a pic:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...p/3A2C7169.jpg

Place was too far east from where I lived. That's a 7 digit phone number, BTW.

I'm assuming the prefix is most likely Highland.......... 44x-6063.

My exchange while growing up in DTES used to be Mutual-1........ 681-48 something something (cannot remember that far back). Edit: remembered it..... 681-4891 (mom drilled it into me - 50+ years later and I still remember it.)

Back to the phone number on the side of the building. Since, there is no number after "High," it must be that the first three letters are the exchange (444?)

For all you Richmond folks, 27x exchange is "Brighouse"

Check the story again....... the part about coming over in a small fishing boat. Don't think it is possible......... would run out of fuel.

The fishing industry here in the LM is pretty much dead. Most commercial fishermen go fish the West Coast (Tofino/Uculet) or go up to the North Coast (Prince Rupert and points between, like Campbell River).

First thing I thought is how the phone numbers on tv are like "klondike5-1234", for 555-1234.

Looks like they are starting to do the demo's for the expansion of the London Drugs, finally!

Wow, old skool!

The central office that used to serve that community (Highland) no longer exists. It got replaced by "Alpine" located on Victoria Drive and serves a majority of East Vancouver. The moment you cross Main Street, Mutual would serve you.

Odd bit: There are two Mutuals now, both located on Seymour and Robson where Telus is. :)

Just drove past LD on my way home and the building with the Coast Dry Cleaners sign is no more. Everything between LD and Dollar Giant is now broken pieces of wood.

Wow, looks like Senna got the last pic of the old building before it went down......

asked around can't figure out what type of boat it was, guess a small boat is a bit unlikely

The building is still there, but the sign is covered by a big white plastic sheet.

I went there last summer to check out the exhibit, awesome!

Check again. The tarp is covering the Dollar Giant wall. When I drove by it on tuesday, the Coast Dry Cleaning building was gone and it exposed the wooden walls of the DG building.

^^^ I think you need to check again. As of yesterday, the buildings directly east of the dollar store still stood. I'm sure I saw the sign faintly....I'll check tonight though.

I went to Playland yesterday, it was my first visit to the park in quite a few years. To my shock and disappointment a number of the rides have been removed and replaced with more modern ones. Most notably my favourite ride was missing - Wild Mouse. Apparently it was removed in 2008, but this being my first trip to the park since it's news to me.

A little bit of history on the ride and a video:

Also missing since my last visit, Octopus, Dragon Coaster, and the Tilt-a-whirl. The Wild Mouse was the very classic, vintage ride though.

The wild mouse was my first roller coaster ride. Scared the living crap out of me :)

^ I remember there was one very sharp turn and the structure was padded at that point, a lot of times your head would swing and nail the padding :fuckthatshit: good times

Old wooden roller coasters are so much more exciting than the ones where you are strapped in tightly to some mechanism that just carries you around a bit. The new ones may look more thrilling, but nothing compares to being thrown around a cart in some rickety old contraption :D

Please tell me the wooden roller coaster at the PNE is still around. Coaster aficionados hands down say wooden is the ultimate.

The Wild Mouse was indeed a classic and the Dragon was a favourite, too.