Vancouver history

Jimi Hendrix Plays the Pacific Coliseum—September 7, 1968

by Eve Lazarus on September 1, 2018

Long before Jimi Hendrix played the Pacific Coliseum on September 7, 1968, he had a Vancouver connection.

Jimi Hendrix played the Pacific Coliseum on September 7, 1968. Four years after the Beatles and 11 years after Elvis Presley played Empire Stadium and changed music forever. The difference was that Jimi had a Vancouver connection—his grandmother Nora Hendrix, a one-time vaudeville dancer who moved to Vancouver in 1911 with her husband Ross Hendrix, a former Chicago cop and raised three children.

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Tags 1022 Davie Street, 827 East Georgia Street, Celebrities Nightclub, Dante's Inferno, Dawson Annex, Empire Stadium, Hogan's Alley, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Shrine, Nora Hendrix, Pacific Coliseum, Ross Hendrix, Thomas Hooper, Vie's Chicken and Steak House

The Royal Crown Soap Company

by Eve Lazarus on July 28, 2018

Occasionally, when I’m searching for photos using the baffling search engine at Vancouver Archives, I stumble across an interesting building or streetscape that I’ve never seen before. Often the information with the photos is quite detailed, but in the above photo all I had was a photo of the Royal Crown Soap Company building and the date ca.1905.

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Tags 308 East Georgia Street, 308 Harris Street, 97 Water Street, Frederick T. Schooley, Lever Bros, Pasttense Vancouver, Royal Crown Soap Company, Terminal Cartage

Captain Pybus and Vancouver’s St. Clair Hotel

by Eve Lazarus on July 21, 2018

A little while ago I was having lunch with Tom Carter and Maurice Guibord at the newly renovated Railway Club. Afterwards, we were walking along Richards Street and Tom gave us a tour of the St. Clair Hotel-Hostel.

The Blushing Boutique is on the ground floor and a set of very steep stairs takes you up to the Hostel.

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Tags BC Mills House, BC Stamp Works, Captain Henry Pybus, Empress of Japan, Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, Pluto Office Furniture, Samuel Birds, St. Clair, Stanley Park, United Typewriter Company, Vancouver Auction Rooms, Vancouver Maritime Museum

The History Store

by Eve Lazarus on July 7, 2018

Chris Wright wants to start a cultural movement around history. A former location scout for the film industry and a treasure hunter with a metal detector, he is the owner of The History Store in Mount Pleasant.

The store has been there almost a year, but unless you have an appointment, it’s only open from noon to 4:00 pm.

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Our Missing Heritage: Vancouver’s First Hospital

by Eve Lazarus on June 30, 2018

From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History

Last week, Michael Kluckner and I were over at Tom Carter’s studio looking out his seventh storey window onto the EasyPark—a cavernous concrete lot that fronts West Pender and takes up the entire city block from Cambie to Beatty Streets.

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Tags Blood Sweat and Fear, Dominion Building, King Edward High School, Larwill Park, McGill University College BC, Michael Kluckner, Tom Carter, Vancouver City Hospital, Vancouver High School, Vancouver the Way it Was

Kits Point and the Summer of ‘23

by Eve Lazarus on June 23, 2018

By Michael Kluckner

Michael Kluckner is a writer and artist with a list of books that includes Vanishing Vancouver and Toshiko. His most recent book is a graphic biography called Julia. He is the president of the Vancouver Historical Society and chair of the city’s Heritage Commission.

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Tags Anne Terriss, Harvey Hadden, Ken Terriss, Michael Kluckner, Ogden Avenue, Shirley Wheatcroft, Sylvia Hotel, Vancouver Remembered

How the Museum of Exotic World became Main Street’s Neptoon Records

by Eve Lazarus on June 2, 2018

From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History

I had the pleasure of visiting Neptoon Records on Main Street for the first time last week. The place was packed with browsers, most of them young. The second thing I noticed was the sheer number of records—thousands of them everywhere you look.

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Tags 3561 Main Street, Alexander Lamb, Barbara Morgan, Harold Morgan, Museum of Exotic World, Neptoon Records, Rob Frith

Let’s Do The Scramble

by Eve Lazarus on May 12, 2018

There’s a Facebook post going around about “pedestrian scrambles”—intersections where every car stops and pedestrians cross in all directions.

It’s a simple concept that saves you from being turned into road kill by a turning car.

The video goes onto tell us that “over 40% of pedestrian crashes happen at intersections,” and after scrambles are implemented “severe crashes have gone down by 63%.”

More cities are using them—they’re now in Los Angeles, Portland and Washington, DC.

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