Comments on: Hogan’s Alley and the Jimi Hendrix Connection

By: cam folk

cam folk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:55:42 +0000

Hi, an interesting article. There seems to be an obvious contradiction though, you mention Nora Hendrix lived at 827 E Georgia from 1938 to 1952, and that Jimi Hendrix visited in 1962, clearly she was living somewhere else in 1962, not at the house on E Georgia st. Anyway, thanks

By: Rachel Overland Kent

Rachel Overland Kent — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 03:22:09 +0000

I arrived in Vancouver with my family in 1939 just as an infant and lived at Main and Hastings St. I wondered if you new about any other books on the East End at that time. Thank you for all the enjoyment I had reading about that area in that era. Sincerely Rachel I arrived in Vancouver with my family as an infant, I had a brother and two sisters. As I got older when they were in school mother took me many times to that Museum kitty corner to where we lived I went to kindergarden in the same area. It was a happy home but because we were poor the childrens aid took us kids away. So I wanted you to know I am fascinated with your bookd and have books about the East End and I just devour them, I wondered if you cpuld tell me of books about that end of town so I could try to find them to purchase. You are a wonderful writer and your pictures I treasure, Thank you Rachel Overland Kent

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:00:24 +0000

I stumbled across your blog while I was looking for some information on old beer labels, that my Grandfather happened to have left me. Then decided to look up the Wigwam Inn that I have not seen since the 1970’s when the “Hippies” had trashed it LOL and here I am. Wonderful! I lived on Pacific Ave in 1981 when the Englesea burned down and I cannot tell you how many people I have tried to convince over the years that there was at one time buildings on the beach side and that the Englesea was one of them. Thank you very much for some very interesting articles, I will keep reading! Now I am curious about the house on Harris road as well, my Aunt and cousins had a small farm there in the 60’s 70’s.

By: neal

neal — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:01:49 +0000

Wasn’t it the Dunsmuir Viacduct that connected Prior st in 1972?
The Georgia Street viaduct had been there since 1915 and was originally built to go over False Creek and the train yards underneath, now but a fading memory.
The Georgia Viaduct was originally a two-way link to downtown Vancouver. I recall it had a huge water tower south of it, which was probably torn down in the late ’50s or early ’60s. The water towr, I believe, was used to refill the old locomotive steam engines.
I was friends with a guy who went to our high school — one of the few black kids at our school — whose mother worked at Vi’s Chicken & Steaks on Union (where the Jimi Hendrix memorial is now); his grandmother owned the place. I believe she was also the grandmother of Jimi Hendrix, who came to live in Vancouver with his grandma for a time. Back then, Jimi called himself Jimi Jones and was trying to get a steady gig playing guitar.

By: Val Jacober

Val Jacober — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:52:14 +0000

Thanks for this. I was there last Sunday too and shared my photos on FB. It was a long past due recognition of this long gone African Canadian neighbourhood. I missed it altogether, as I moved to the Lower Mainland in 1978.