Angus McIntyre

Last week’s blog on Kitsilano featuring Bruce Stewart’s photos, brought back memories and a healthy does of nostalgia from those of you who were lucky to have known Kits in the ‘70s. In this week’s blog I’m delighted to bring you photos from Angus McIntyre, Gord McCaw, Peter Dobo and a couple more from Bruce,… Continue reading More Photos of Kitsilano in the 1970s and ’80s

The Knight Street Bridge photo essay is the second in a three-part series by Angus McIntyre. The photos were taken on Angus’s Konica Autoreflex T Camera. December 31, 1972 was an unseasonably warm Sunday and Angus McIntyre jumped on his bike and headed to the Fraser River. He spent the day documenting the construction of… Continue reading The Knight Street Bridge: Part 2

The Fraser Street Swing Span Bridge was built in 1894 and linked what’s now Fraser Street with No. 5 Road, Richmond. It was demolished in 1974 after completion of the Knight Street Bridge. This is part one of a three-part series about crossing the Fraser River in 1972 by Angus McIntyre On December 31, 1972,… Continue reading The Fraser Street Swing Span Bridge

Thought I’d take a break from my summer break to write up this post about Sandon, a super interesting town in the Kootenays. We dropped by there last week on our way to Nelson because I’d heard it was a ghost town and a graveyard for Vancouver’s Brill Trolley buses. We arrived there via a… Continue reading The Brill Trolley Buses of Sandon, BC

Long before the Vancouver Film School occupied the building at East Pender and Columbia Streets, there was a railway station that was later repurposed into the legendary Marco Polo restaurant.  Story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History Train Station: If you’re walking around Chinatown, you’ll likely notice the four-storey brick building at… Continue reading The Dupont Street Train Station and the Marco Polo Restaurant

There is a fake house in Burnaby that has fooled even some of its closest neighbours since 1967. Rumours have spread that it’s everything from a government safe house to an animal crematorium, but the truth is far more interesting. From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History The Fake House: The house is… Continue reading The Fake House and the Thornton Tunnel

At 2:00 pm on Sunday March 24, 1974, a group of about a 100 people, many of them students and professors from the UBC School of Architecture, came together in a mock funeral for the Birks Building, an eleven storey Edwardian masterpiece at Georgia and Granville with a terracotta façade and a curved front corner.… Continue reading We held a funeral for the Birks Building

My friend, Angus McIntyre emailed me these amazing photos of streetcar advertising that he came across on the Vancouver Archives site this week. The first photo shows Car 211 on the  #3 Davie Street route passing the 400-block Granville Street. According to Angus, it was a two-man car, where you would board at the rear… Continue reading Streetcar Advertising and the Hobby Lobby Radio Show

Angus McIntyre was reading Murder by Milkshake  when he stopped and took a closer look at a photo snapped by the Vancouver Sun’s Dan Scott in December 1966. Where I saw a rare photo of Lolly Miller leaving court during the murder trial of her lover, Rene Castellani—Angus was looking at the background. “I just noticed something… Continue reading Lolly, CFUN, and the Brill Trolley Bus

From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History My friend Angus McIntyre was a Vancouver bus driver for 40 years and often took photos of heritage buildings, neon signs, street lamps and everyday life on his various routes. His photos are always so vivid and interesting and when he sends me one, I stop… Continue reading They Paved Paradise and put up a Parking Lot: Larwill Park

Fred Herzog, Foncie, Selwyn Pullan, Michael de Courcy, Bruce Stewart and Angus McIntyre were just a few who took up a camera in the Vancouver of the ‘70s, and were documenting images of everything from buildings to the changing skyline, and from neighborhoods to neon. They also put a spotlight on people—the famous, the quirky,… Continue reading Vancouver in the Seventies

Angus McIntyre was a Vancouver bus driver for 40 years. He has a love for photography, street lighting and transportation systems. Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Angus for tea and a chat. Angus was given his first camera at age eight—an Argus with the little window and the roll through… Continue reading Angus McIntyre