Comments on: Percy Linden’s House https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jane https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-4867 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:01:43 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-4867 In reply to chris.

Hi Chris this is a great memory. I remember going there all the time. Easter was very special with the Linden family. This is Jane I was married to Kevin Linden and had Amanda and Justin.

]]> By: chris https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3983 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:00:13 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3983 Wow! I just stumbled onto this site. Percy was my uncle. I grew up spending a lot of time in that house, as did my mom in her youth. I loved everything about that place. Even as a kid in the 70s I knew it was magical. Occasionally, I helped paint the odd birdhouse that would hang out front for the upcoming spring season. I still have the sign he painted for me that says “I’D RATHER BE HAPPY IN MY CRAZY WORLD THAN TO BE SANE AND SAD”. Similar to the one that sat nailed to his stairs for decades. So many great memories of him, and the house. Thanks for this!

]]> By: Cathy Barzo https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3529 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 22:15:17 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3529 This wasn’t my neighbourhood, but it was across from an art supply store that I frequented. Of course I took some pics (not sure where they are now) and even got to meet and say hello to Percy. His house brought me joy everytime I saw it. Neighbourhoods lose character when replaced by highrises. The front yard and porches told the story of who lived inside. Everything is so annonymous now. At least in the West End, the apartment building were on a much smaller scale so there is still some personality carved out in the front gardens. All the sameness in big condo or highrise projects extinguish the character of a neighbourhood.

]]> By: Gregory Melle https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3527 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:36:43 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3527 In reply to Gregory Melle.

(See website link) https://www.flickr.com/photos/canadagood/3068465372

]]> By: Gregory Melle https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3526 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:35:55 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3526 My photo on Flickr from 1986.

]]> By: Canadian History Roundup – Week of March 26, 2017 | Unwritten Histories https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3522 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 17:03:34 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3522 […] Lazarus remembers the missing houses of Yaletown, one of the cute old homes that you used to be able to spot in downtown Vancouver amidst all the […]

]]> By: Kate https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3521 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 16:39:30 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3521 Somewhere, I have a photo of Percy in front of his house, taken in the late 1970s. He was in the yard gardening and I stopped to tell him how much I loved his garden and took his photo.

]]> By: Raymond Parker https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3520 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 15:49:15 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3520 Never got ’round to photographing those houses for some reason, but remember it well — the last bit of whimsy and human-scale housing on the street.

]]> By: Doug Parks https://evelazarus.com/the-missing-houses-of-yaletown/#comment-3519 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 05:06:14 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7058#comment-3519 I knew a school mate that lived in that area before the birdhouses adorned the property. I knew dozens of kids that lived in great old homes in the West End. One friend (Grodzki) lived in an old home on Thurlow between Pacific and Beach. They were surrounded by hi rises. Another friend lived in Grace Court on Cardero. The building still exists and has quite a history. It had the old fashioned elevator with an iron gate and the lever to operate the direction. Thanks for the history on the house with all the bird houses.

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