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Old 01-09-2012, 09:34 PM   #447
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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


[View of streetcar and businesses at] 49th and Fraser Aves. S[outh] Vancouver.jpg


1st Ave. and Comm[ercial] DR..jpg


10th Avenue and Cambie Street, site of City Hall.jpg


41st Avenue and Fraser Street (Municipal Hall South Vancouver) ca. 1912.jpg


41st Avenue looking West from East Boulevard ca. 1914.jpg


43rd Avenue and Main Street (Drainage pipes stacked) ca. 191-.jpg


49th and Fraser Ave (View of streetcar and businesses) ca. 1912.jpg


500 block of Carrall Street, looking north toward Pender Street.jpg


800 Block of Main St 1968+2009.jpg


4100 block of Main street looking Southeast May 7 1946.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)


A glimpse of the city from Stanley Park.jpg


Accident scene at 41st and Prince Albert Aug 1948.jpg






An newly built shopping area at the corner of Cedar Street (Burrard Street) and Broadway.jpg


Arch at entrance to Central Park, Burnaby.jpg


Broadway and Com[mercial] Dr..jpg


Burrard Pharmacy [1003 Robson].jpg


Capitola Pharmacy and Apartments, corner of Davie Street and Thurlow Street.jpg


City Museum, Art Gallery and Library, Vancouver, B.C..jpg


Commercial Drive and 11th Avenue (Men erecting power pole) ca. March 28, 1914.jpg


Commercial Drive and 20th Avenue ca. 1920.jpg


Cor. 25th Ave. and Main St. Vancouver, B.C..jpg


Dick building at southeast corner of 9th Avenue (Broadway) and Granville Street.jpg


Entrances to the underground comfort stations on Howe near Robson Street.jpg


Exterior of E. Trimble and Sons Central Meat Market - S.W. corner of Westminster Road (Kingsway) and 9th Avenue (Broadway).jpg


Finished bitulithic pavement Fraser St. and 34th Ave. [now 33rd Ave.].jpg


Fraser and 33rd. [Avenue looking] south.jpg (anyone remember the A&W on that corner?)


Fraser and 49th. [Avenue looking] north.jpg


Grant Motors, 49th. and Fraser showing sign, Home Gas.jpg


Houses, Fraserview housing development, exterior 1950.jpg


Joyce Street looking Southwest towards Carleton School ca. 191-.jpg


Knight and 41st. [Avenue looking] north.jpg


Knight and 41st. [Avenue looking] west.jpg


Knight and 49th. [Avenue looking] south.jpg


Knight and 57th. [Avenue looking] east.jpg


Knight and 57th. [Avenue looking] west.jpg


Looking North on Main at 8th Avenue 1922.jpg


Looking North on Main at Broadway 1922.jpg


Looking west from East 64th Avenue (66th Avenue) near Main Street.jpg


Main Street at River Road (Marine Drive).jpg


Marine Drive in South Vancouver.jpg


Mr. Francis (Frank) J. Hamilton standing on the 100 block East Pender Street.jpg


Mr. Stephens McLaren Ad. Co., Dunbar Theatre.jpg


North east corner Columbia Street and Pender Street.jpg


Park Avenue (Later Boundary Road) (Showing streetcar, overpass, road and sidewalk ca. 191-.jpg


Smith, Davidson & Wright building [1190 Homer Street].jpg


South Hill Baptist Chuch South Vancouver ca. 1912.jpg


South Hill Public School South Vancouver ca. 1912.jpg


Southwest exterior of the Court House, viewed from the corner of Hornby and Robson Streets.jpg


Taken for Duker and Shaw Billboards Ltd. [Kingsway between Clarendon and Wales Streets].jpg


Terminal Cartage truck on its side after colliding with a street car on the corner of Howe and Davie Streets.jpg


The Heather Street Creek overflowing Ninth Avenue (Broadway).jpg


View looking Northwest in 2500 block Main June 1939.jpg


View looking South on Fraser and East 33rd near the entrance to Mountain View Cemetary July 1944.jpg


View looking southwest in 600 block East Broadway at Fraser June 1939.jpg


View of Spanish Banks Beach (formerly Point Grey Beach) from Marine Drive and Blanca Street.jpg
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