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Nice tour. Expensive neighborhood, huh? Being a New Yorker, I'm certainly used to hearing about all the houses being over $1,000,000! LOL!
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nice tour...i love Avenue Grill.
For those who dont know, the 1st Starbucks in the pic is "one of THE" starbucks in van (some people care some dont) Overall a nice departure from "van van" but i still find kerry very mick-a-muck and somewhat overated. |
its nice but quite the hodge podge - its gotten a lot better the last few years - i've always thought of it as an "old" people kind of place
once the new Canada Line starts up it might develop more as it will only be a 10-15 minute bus ride to the Line - the last few years have seen some more chain type stores moving in but it still retains its local shops which is nice - compared to west 4th which is being overrun now with chain stores - not that its bad the mix works but it does lose some interest when you find the same shops everywhere |
its where i grew up and went to school. kerrisdale itself is pretty old timer, but the neighborhoods around are great.
thanks for all the pics. |
^^west 4th overrun hardly...look again. I far prefer west 4th for shopping/eating but the feel of kerrisdale is better.
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Very Urban
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was there on saturday all the little shops are being replaced by chains - Le Chateau, Roots, Toni & Guy, Mavi, La Vie En Rose, Lululemon, etc Its still a great street but its starting to push out the smaller shops it used to have for years |
What a beautiful town. Great photos!
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Looks pretty nice to me.
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Nice tour, thanks! I should check out the neighbourhood in detail for myself one of these days...
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i totally skipped the east side of the boulevard the kerrisdale high school is really nice- very art deco I missed some cool little shops along the west boulevard too lots of highrises surrounding the area to check out it got really wet though |
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yes - me and my friend were saying you know if you took a new arrival and they were drunk and dropped them off here - we were by some typical apartments and told them they were in the west end they might believe you - lol
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Nice pics. This is a distinct area within Vancouver whose pleasant urban feel suprises me because it is so far from the city centre. Kerrisdale was originally part of the Point Grey municipality.
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Nice commercial area
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Kerrisdale was a major residential/commercial area back when Vancouver still had the street car. It was a neighbourhood created from elite classes (primarily wealthy British citizens) and they would have their elaborate sprawling mansions built in the area as it was as far as the street car could take them away from downtown (which was then full of railyards, slaughterhouses on False Creek and such - not as pretty as it is today). So as far as Vancouver history goes, Kerrisdale is actually an old Vancouver neighbourhood... which is why it feels more urban than you might expect.
The neighbourhood is historically very white (British) and upper class, and a lot of its residents have been there for generations. Of course, then the late 80's and early 90's came around and Hong Kong immigrants started to flee the future communist reign of their city and started to move to Vancouver by the tens of thousands. During this time lot of older character homes with mature gardens/shrubs were demolished to create even larger houses that were designed for the Hong Kong market... aka: the pink stucco-clad boxy "monster house" (complete with a paved front yard). And of course, Kerrisdale residents were very upset about this sudden change to "their" neighbourhood, and it's well-documented: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C1A967958260 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...8bd6ce&k=44011 But that's a non-issue today. Nowadays Kerrisdale still has very beautiful homes along the side streets, and a lot of what were independent restaurants and shops (catering to the upper class British demographics) have since been replaced by sushi joints, Baby Gap, Nike, and the like. Lots of gentrification in the past 5-10 years. Of course, there are still a few local institutions, like Hills of Kerrisdale, and Thomas Hobbs Florist, which most people think of when they think of Kerrisdale. |
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