February 24th, 2021 — If you’re ever lost in east Vancouver always remember that moss grows on the north side of the derelict Mercedes parked in a driveway, which in this case is the 400 block of North Slocan Street.
Category: Urban Landscape
Modern architecture 2
February 17th, 2021 — The UBC tennis center.
Modern architecture
February 17th, 2021 — The UBC indoor baseball training facility next to the Rashpal Dhillon running track at UBC.
Fish and chips
February 20th, 2021 — There’s not much left of the old Britannia Beach townsite. The buildings that contained gift shops and galleries have been raised off their foundations and set aside for redevelopment of some kind. The fish and chip shop, however, is still there and a local who was just finishing his meal said there would be a revolt if it were forced to move.
New campus
February 8th, 2021 — The University Canada West building, under the Granville Street Bridge, at Beach Avenue.
Lets call it Bridgeview
February 8th, 2021 — Under the Granville Street Bridge at Beach Avenue.
The end of sail
February 6th, 2021 — A signed limited edition print, “The End of Sail” #33 of 450, by John M. Horton, is duct taped inside a transit shelter display on King Edward Avenue just east of Arbutus Street. You can buy a print from his web site for $350.00.
A bit of blue
February 11th, 2017 — Blue garage door at the rear of 4478 West 14th Avenue.
1954 Pontiac
January 26th, 2021 — A 1954 Pontiac sedan near Collingwood Street and Broadway. For those who were involved in the custom car craze of the 1960’s this is a very funny picture. For those who weren’t, it’s just a car.
Houses lifted
January 27th, 2021 — I’m all for saving heritage houses but these three houses at 8th Avenue and Birch supposedly being “saved” by raising them on stilts and building a massive condo development underneath seems to be beyond the limits of common sense.