Historic Vancouver Photos - Page 33

Tetsuo · #**641** Posted **Jun 20, 2016, 3:37 AM**

My favorite tidbit of the gas barge was when someone place a rock in the 9Oclock Gun and when it fired it hit one !

officedweller · #**642** Posted **Sep 15, 2016, 8:23 PM**

Archival photos released by CoV Planning Department.

http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2016...now-available/

Quote:

“We are pleased to announce that we are now able to make available a significant volume of records from the City’s Planning Department. The Department has been responsible for land use planning, administering the Zoning and Development By-law and administering development services since 1952. . .

. . . These records cover some of the critical issues that faced the City’s development in the second half of the 20th century, and we hope you find the records provide valuable background information behind the decisions that have shaped the City for the last 60 years.”

http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2016...now-available/

Connaught (Cambie) Bridge Dec 31, 1983.

https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2016...ning-archives/

retro_orange · #**643** Posted **Sep 15, 2016, 11:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Archival photos released by CoV Planning Department.

http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2016...now-available/

http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2016...now-available/

Connaught (Cambie) Bridge Dec 31, 1983.

https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2016...ning-archives/

Woah thanks! I know where I'm gonna be spending alot of my time over the next few days

officedweller · #**644** Posted **Sep 23, 2016, 9:39 AM**

An intriguing shot from GRIDS Vancouver - from before Robson Square was built.

As far as I can tell, this pic is looking east down Robson St. from Howe St.
You can see the back of the Medical Arts Building (on Granville, centre left) and the Vogue Theatre marquee outline to the right.
The bushes on the left would have been at the rear steps of the courthouse (as seen in the other shots).

The ramp must have been a temporary ramp exiting from the newly built Pacific Centre parkade.

https://twitter.com/GRIDSVancouver

Klazu · #**645** Posted **Sep 23, 2016, 2:00 PM**

Ah, what a wonderful sea of cars! Those were the days...

Vin · #**646** Posted **Sep 23, 2016, 5:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Ah, what a wonderful sea of cars! Those were the days...

And the 70s all-American fuel guzzling continental cars too.

jollyburger · #**647** Posted **Sep 23, 2016, 8:36 PM**

The building in this photograph looks like the same one in the first image?

http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/r...obson-street-5

officedweller · #**648** Posted **Sep 23, 2016, 8:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

The building in this photograph looks like the same one in the first image?

http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/r...obson-street-5

Yeah, that's right - Close to where Chipotle is now.
That's also why I figured that ramp was on Robson St.

Klazu · #**649** Posted **Sep 24, 2016, 2:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

And the 70s all-American fuel guzzling continental cars too.

Yeah, one would need an oil tanker just to fill up those cars!

How long Vancouver has come within a human lifetime, it's incredible.

officedweller · #**650** Posted **Oct 13, 2016, 10:42 PM**

Another Robson Square pic - from 1975:

https://twitter.com/MilkovichArch

whatnext · #**651** Posted **Oct 13, 2016, 11:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller

An intriguing shot from GRIDS Vancouver - from before Robson Square was built.

As far as I can tell, this pic is looking east down Robson St. from Howe St.
You can see the back of the Medical Arts Building (on Granville, centre left) and the Vogue Theatre marquee outline to the right.
The bushes on the left would have been at the rear steps of the courthouse (as seen in the other shots).

The ramp must have been a temporary ramp exiting from the newly built Pacific Centre parkade.

https://twitter.com/GRIDSVancouver

Are you sure its not Dunsmuir? I don't recall Robson being one way.

officedweller · #**652** Posted **Oct 13, 2016, 11:47 PM**

It's Robson:

trofirhen · #**653** Posted **Oct 14, 2016, 12:12 AM**

Interesting, thank you. Where did that downramp / tunnel lead to? It looks intriguing.

officedweller · #**654** Posted **Jan 3, 2017, 9:17 PM**

Victory Square with the [old courthouse] [EDIT: Central school] behind (current site of VCC):

Vancouver History: Courthouse Square, 1924
https://twitter.com/HeritageVan

Vin · #**655** Posted **Jan 3, 2017, 9:43 PM**

A much more elegant era at East Hastings that's for sure. Would that ever come back to the neighbourhood again?

excel · #**656** Posted **Jan 3, 2017, 10:02 PM**

Not at this rate.

csbvan · #**657** Posted **Jan 3, 2017, 10:26 PM**

If only the old courthouse remained and was the bones off of which the VCC campus was built...

Changing City · #**658** Posted **Jan 4, 2017, 1:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

If only the old courthouse remained and was the bones off of which the VCC campus was built...

The Courthouse was demolished soon after 1911, when the building that's now the Art Gallery replaced it. https://changingvancouver.wordpress....t-court-house/. It was on the other side of Pender Street from the High School / Art School / VCC, so it's hard to see how it could have been the bones of that development

We haven't posted anything on the old High School on ChangingVancouver yet, but we've got an image to use, so there should be something soon. The old High School building sat in the middle of the block that VCC now occupy, so it probably couldn't have been incorporated into the current buildings on either Pender or Dunsmuir Street.

BobLoblawsLawBlog · #**659** Posted **Jan 4, 2017, 3:02 AM**

Why do all old photographs of public spaces make the grass and road look so clean. It surely wasn't that neat back then.

jollyburger · #**660** Posted **Jan 4, 2017, 3:31 AM**

Well Victory Square was opened in 1924 and the photo is dated both 1924 and 1925 so it was still pretty new and it was probably near Remembrance Day so they probably cleaned it up as well.