Comments on: Heritage Vancouver’s Top 10 Most Endangered Heritage Resources of 2016

By: maureen shay

maureen shay — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:45:13 +0000

my grandparents owned a 3-story boarding house on Robson Street- I thought it was secure as it was listed at one time as a Century old Heritage home. Next to it was a house turned into a rowdy place called Charlie’s (whore house)! on the corner was a Chinese market. Vegetables and flowers all neatly showing at the store front. That house was a composition. I remember tangled together in quiet chaos, were 3 stories of tantalizing aromas, languages, music, laughter, dinners cooking, shuffling feet on stairs and non-stop toilet flushing.
Sigh. Are you saying Robson St. traded its soul and sold out? I thought it was safe, I wanted to show it to my great- grandchildren this year.
Where might I find any photos from about 1955-1960 . I am sifting through letters to find address but so far, no luck. Last name of grandparents was McCormick.

By: jmv

jmv — Tue, 10 May 2016 23:42:33 +0000

I’d say Opsal wasn’t saved, but ‘rebuilt’ in a form of facadism; and the BC Electric showroom was also a classic case of facadism. Both are nice to have in the urban landscape, but are not outright success stories either. The Ralph block is more of an obvious exception, and the entire block is a critical and integral example how important revitalization and restoration can be for a district, which not long ago was seen as a write-off.

By: Jennifer Clay

Jennifer Clay — Mon, 09 May 2016 17:48:42 +0000

What about St. Paul’s Hospital? Not on the list this year? It is such a beautiful building.

By: Rob Cardinal

Rob Cardinal — Sun, 08 May 2016 02:33:28 +0000

Thank you for this post Eve!
Most tragic about the 1907, Pantages Theatre……They waited far too long to decide to restore it, by the time they decided it was ” doable ” the building had succumbed to total damp rot!…. . A friend of mine, Peter Pantages, who works with us in the Film Industry, is the Great – Grandson of the theatre builder, AND the man who started the Polar Bear Swim, in 1920!