Eve Lazarus
If you are like me and have a couple of Michael Kluckner’s books at home, you might be surprised to learn that his latest effort is a graphic novel.
In his latest book, Toshiko, Michael has replaced his paint brush with a pencil, and he’s taken a leap into fiction.
Turns out, Michael kicked off his career as a cartoonist back in the ‘70s, and in many ways, this is a return to his roots.
This story appears in Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History.
Anders Falk is a Vancouver realtor with deep roots in the city. His great, great grandparents William and Mary Henderson Garden arrived in Vancouver from Helensburgh, Scotland, via Liverpool and a cross Canada train trip in April 1889. William opened up Garden and Sons Wholesale Tea and Coffee on East Hastings.
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.
Here are five of my favourite eccentric BC houses that still stand (or did at the time of research).
1. The Hobbit House(s)
There are two in Vancouver and one in West Van designed by Ross Lort in the early 40s, and against all odds, all survive. Hobbit house at King Edward and Cambie is now part of a town house development.
