Historic Vancouver Photos

[Dave2]

Stumbled on this quite by accident just after reading this thread.

Pacific Centre, Granville Mall no office buildngs west of Burrard. And one apartment tower south of Georgia between Richards and Seymour to 'test the appeal"

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...rontpage&hl=en

[EastVanMark]

Originally Posted by Dave2

Stumbled on this quite by accident just after reading this thread.

Pacific Centre, Granville Mall no office buildngs west of Burrard. And one apartment tower south of Georgia between Richards and Seymour to 'test the appeal"

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...rontpage&hl=en

Nice find Dave! Reading that article just shows how progressive and bold our fair city USED to be. That development would have rivaled anything going on in other cities that were twice as large as Vancouver. Sadly, now things seem to have gone in reverse....

(note the article about Premier Bennett going after a national bank for British Columbia....we sure were an ambitious bunch back then... great times to be in BC)

[officedweller]

Great article.

Interesting that they wanted to lower Granville St. from Robson to Dunsmuir to create a sunken transit mall. I'm not sure if that would have worked - it may have just ended up being an underpass of Georgia St.

The Coliseum on the CBC site is interesting, as well as the pedestrian walkway from the Coliseum to the Birks Building south of Georgia St.

BTW - we did have a national bank - the Bank of British Columbia. 885 West Georgia was origibally the Bank of BC Building. HSBC took over the Bank of BC in the 1980s.

[Architype]

Interesting article. I'm not sure that a sunken pedesrian mall would be a very pleasant place to be though.

[hollywoodnorth]

couple neat pics I found on The Sun site ..

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Pho...?cid=hot_photo




The bus depot at the corner of Dunsmuir and Seymour streets in Vancouver taken by Leonard Frank in August 1938.
Photograph by: Leonard Frank, Vancouver Sun




Photo filed April 24, 1956 of men on log boom in False Creek with Hotel Vancouver in background.




A hand-coloured photo of a grisly crash between a couple of streetcars and an automobile probably from the late 1930s or 1940s.





Another Dave Buchan classic photos of an accident.
Photograph by: Dave Buchan, Vancouver SUn





A car ran through the front of Smithe Coffee Bar
Photograph by: Dave Buchan, Vancouver Sun

[spm2013]

Originally Posted by Dave2

Stumbled on this quite by accident just after reading this thread.

Pacific Centre, Granville Mall no office buildngs west of Burrard. And one apartment tower south of Georgia between Richards and Seymour to 'test the appeal"

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...rontpage&hl=en

Interesting to read they wanted an 8 million dollar arena built downtown at the time as well.. And the Toronto Maple Leafs were going to pay for it if the City gave them the land.

[officedweller]

Post from Changing Vancouver - The Hudson's Bay Seymour Building (1st phase of the existing building) including a render with a future expansion of 4 additional floors:

http://changingvancouver.wordpress.c...eymour-street/

Render with future phase:

http://changingvancouver.files.wordpress.com

Photo with 2nd store side-by-side (demolished to expand the Seymour Building to Granville Street)

http://changingvancouver.files.wordpress.com

[Dave2]

Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon

Have you seen any looking more at Howe and Georgia? My grandfathers family business used to be on that corner until Pacific Centre bumped them in the 70s. The store was the New York Fur Co. I think it should be right beside that Norman G Cull sign.

http://flic.kr/p/8sTo7a

[officedweller]

Great then and now opf Yaletown at the Vancouver Courier, including these.
I didn't know there was a recreation ground at Homer & Smithe - that explains why the site was level as a parking lot with steep sides from both Smithe & Homer (I had thought it was for level train tracks).

http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Then: A truck makes a delivery in the 1100 block Mainland Street in June 1937.
Photograph by: Photo courtesy Dominion Photo Co. photo, Vancouver Public Library 24127.AM54-S4-: LGN 1191, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Now: The west side of the 1000 and 1100 blocks of Mainland Street in April 2013.
Photograph by: Dan Toulgoet, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Then: Recreation Park sports field once stood at the southeast corner of Smithe and Homer streets. On opening day, May 11, 1905, somewhere between 3,000 and 4,700 fans (estimates of the crowd vary) paid 25 cents to see the Vancouver Vets trounce a Victoria ball team 4-2. The field was also home to lacrosse games, circus events, amateur athletics, police sports games, and local events marking the death in 1910 of King Edward VII and the 1911 coronation of King George V.
Photograph by: Philip Timms photo, Vancouver Public Library 6727, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Now: Today, highrise towers fill the city block where Recreation Park once stood. Today, baseball can be found at Nat Bailey Stadium, 4601 Ontario Street, home to the Vancouver Canadians.
Photograph by: Dan Toulgoet, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html

[Dave2]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Great then and now opf Yaletown at the Vancouver Courier, including these.
I didn't know there was a recreation ground at Homer & Smithe - that explains why the site was level as a parking lot with steep sides from both Smithe & Homer (I had thought it was for level train tracks).

http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Then: A truck makes a delivery in the 1100 block Mainland Street in June 1937.
Photograph by: Photo courtesy Dominion Photo Co. photo, Vancouver Public Library 24127.AM54-S4-: LGN 1191, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Now: The west side of the 1000 and 1100 blocks of Mainland Street in April 2013.
Photograph by: Dan Toulgoet, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Then: Recreation Park sports field once stood at the southeast corner of Smithe and Homer streets. On opening day, May 11, 1905, somewhere between 3,000 and 4,700 fans (estimates of the crowd vary) paid 25 cents to see the Vancouver Vets trounce a Victoria ball team 4-2. The field was also home to lacrosse games, circus events, amateur athletics, police sports games, and local events marking the death in 1910 of King Edward VII and the 1911 coronation of King George V.
Photograph by: Philip Timms photo, Vancouver Public Library 6727, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html


Now: Today, highrise towers fill the city block where Recreation Park once stood. Today, baseball can be found at Nat Bailey Stadium, 4601 Ontario Street, home to the Vancouver Canadians.
Photograph by: Dan Toulgoet, Vancouver Courier
http://www.vancourier.com/news/Yalet...745/story.html

In 1898 (7 years before the Recreation Park opened), the south-east corner of Homer & Smithe was almost at water's edge!



Hi Res http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u...a44-MAP547.jpg

[Dave2]

Vancouver vs New Westminster, Recreation Park (Homer & Smithe)

All photos are public domain, Vancouver Archives



http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u...ab0-A60829.jpg




http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u...77e-A60848.jpg



http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u...875-A60851.jpg

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Dave2

In 1898 (7 years before the Recreation Park opened), the south-east corner of Homer & Smithe was almost at water's edge!

http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u...a44-MAP547.jpg

Thanks! Nice hi-res copy.

[Prometheus]

That's quite the grandstand. It's evidence of how popular lacrosse once was, when it was the official national sport of Canada. I believe it is still the official national sport of Canada, along with hockey.

[officedweller]

Render of City Hall at its originally planned site - the old courthouse site at Victory Square (current VCC):

Photograph by: Vancouver Sun Files, .

...
Reading the riot act apparently soured McGeer on the proposal to build a new city hall at Pender and Cambie, just above Victory Square. So he moved it to 12th and Cambie. But a W.J. Moore photo-illustration was recently found in The Sun archives that shows the art deco structure at the original Victory Square location.
...

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Thi...689/story.html

[Sir Conga]

I'm not sure where else to put this, but you guys gotta check this out.

http://earthengine.google.org/#intro

It's a time lapse of Satellite imagery spanning the globe.

You can watch False Creek build up on both sides. You can watch Dubai spring up out of the sand. You can see the desert bloom in Saudi Arabia. See the incredible upwards expansion of Shanghai. You can watch lakes and glaciers disappearing, and forests being cleared: close to home and in places like the Amazon. Absolutely unreal.

[officedweller]

Coal Harbour circa 1940 from the PavCo website:


http://bcpavco.com/projects/coal-har...ement/history/

[Prometheus]

Good stuff. Thanks.

[ckkelley]

Sweet pic, thanks!

[Dave2]

Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon

Have you seen any looking more at Howe and Georgia? My grandfathers family business used to be on that corner until Pacific Centre bumped them in the 70s. The store was the New York Fur Co. I think it should be right beside that Norman G Cull sign.

48th Grey Cup Parade, 1960

[Alex Mackinnon]

That's a good one. You can almost recognize people looking out the windows. Thanks.