If you want photos of Vancouver's traditional car centric retail you're better off looking for historic photos, much of the mid twentieth century car centric stuff that was built in Vancouver has been demolished and replaced with high density mixed use buildings and transit oriented developments. You can still find some, but it's scattered about and there's no intact early car centric strips, what exists was mostly built in the eighties and nineties and is in newer, more suburban cities. You can find strips that are a few decades older than this, starting with architecture from around the mid-sixties, in most Canadian regions, although the layouts look a bit different from your picture, especially the setbacks.
Last edited by BIMBAM; Apr 16, 2012 at 1:44 AM.
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