Eve Lazarus
There is a chapter on West Coast Modern Artists and Architects in Sensational Vancouver.
If you love West Coast modern like I do, check out the art and architecture exhibit at the West Vancouver Museum this summer.
Work from all the greats is there—Fred Hollingsworth, Arthur Erickson, B.C.
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
This photo of a bombed out car in 1932 has been bugging me ever since a reader posted it on my FB page a few weeks ago. So this week I made a trip to the Vancouver Public Library to find out its back story.
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
I was spending a typical Friday afternoon yesterday poking around the digital files at Vancouver Archives when I found this photo of the Alhambra Theatre. The photo was taken in 1899, the year the theatre first appears in the city directories and it stood at the corner of West Pender and Howe Street.
It may not be the grandest house on the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s tour, but I bet 446 Union Street house is one of the most interesting, at least when it comes to its social history.
From: Sensational Vancouver
Adamo Piovesan built the brick house in 1930 for his wife Maria and their four daughters.
The Vancouver Police Museum has put together Red Light Rendezvous—a new tour for those of us who can’t get enough of the gritty history of downtown Vancouver.
Cat Rose, who is a crime analyst by day, is also the person behind the Police Museum’s other popular Sins of the City tour: Vice, Dice and Opium Pipes.
When I was researching my 2007 book At Home with History I spent most of my life at the Vancouver Archives and on the 7th floor of the Vancouver Public Library. Now, instead of trekking downtown, much of the information is available to me here at home.
Today, the digital world just got a bit better with the launch of three very cool new online toys.
The Dollarton Pleasure Faire held in the summer of ’72, was meant as a celebration of alternative living, timed to clash with the PNE held across the inlet.
From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
I was at the North Vancouver Archives trying to hunt down some information from the city directories.
Because May is Asian Heritage Month it seems fitting to run a story about Joy Kogawa. The following is an excerpt from the Legendary Women chapter in Sensational Vancouver.
Joy Kogawa’s childhood house is a modest wood-framed bungalow in South Vancouver. There’s really nothing architecturally significant about it except that it’s one of the few original houses that remain in the neighbourhood.
