the province used to do vehicle safety inspections, sort of like what the UK does with getting and MOT done. at some point in the 1970's they stopped doing it. if you can find a car from back in that era that still has it's original glass, you'll see a round window sticker with a gov't logo with date boxes scratched off showing that inspection was done for that year. it was a mandatory and you had to take your car in every year. my parents used to live in vancouver and i remember there was a gov't inspection facility on alberni or w.georgia near stanley park. my dad would drive into an inspection bay and the car would be locked down on a platform that would lift the car up at a 45% angle for inspection underneath. they would leave me belted in the seat inside the car while this was happening and i remember playing rocketship waiting for the car to launch
i also remember being taken to empire stadium to watch a bc lions game. all the kids here only know it as some grassy pit but i remember it as this:
