Don’t forget the Pure Foods building. You could make a couple of laps and score enough free samples to consider it lunch!

EDIT: I meant The TEXAN, not The Stetson! It was a burger drive in…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-VqUzRNMA
Watch this ^^^ Just over a 3 minute video will take you back to 1966 Vancouver!

L0L Eve! I got over ‘aging’ a long time ago! Thanx for having this Vancouver site bcuz it’s great to reminisce about my childhood and a very nice woman on Burnaby Archives even found a photo of a little stucco house on McKay for me a few years ago. It was our first residence in 1959. There is a small park there now! Kelly Douglas was on Kingsway south side not far from that house. Us 4 boys used to rummage their dumpster and carry home cracked watermelons in summer! L0L I was only 6 yrs old then. BTW, U R probably aware of a website that shows a map of Vancouver/area heritage buildings? Very interesting to peruse!

Me too Trevor, and I also enjoyed the view of DT Vancouver from N. Burnaby looking west with Burrard Inlet and the mountains to the north! There was a seedy bar just east up Hastings on the north side by Cassiar st I went to a few times! The bus loop was in that locale too at one time. After work at Playland I’d sometimes catch a bus home from there.

Hi Bruce! Yup, the PNE was always a GO-T0 PLACE for us kids in the 1960s, except we rode the Stanley Park/Nanaimo st. bus from Trout Lake area to Hastings and usually walked east to the PNE. For some reason I remember that little restaurant close to the PNE on the NW corner of Renfrew/Hastings next to the gas station that sat right on the corner. I envision a cowboy hat on the sign? Was it the Stetson? Then the Demolition Derbies north on Renfrew a few blks. I’ll Giggle it and see what I can find….

Jeam, I lived in Vancouver from 1959-1993, but I never knew there was ANOTHER Broadway in the Lower Mainland, until I looked for that house on Lougheed Hwy just now! I went to the PNE as a lad and worked at Playland circa 1967-68ish. What a FUN job for a teen back then! I worked the Bumper Cars ride, and then the Looper which was a real ‘MONEY’ ride as many riders lost their change, and wallets! L0L
During PNE season The Food Building was my FAV of course! I still remember the aroma of fresh-baked scones, that melted in my mouth, Hunky Bill of perogy fame of course, whom I met at The Dover Arms on Denman st a few decades after in 1986ish.

the seating for the horse racing

I remember this house and a nice lady that won it. I lived on Broadway St.

I believe it is the grandstand at Exhibition Park race track. Now named
Hastings Racecourse and Casino.

Can you tell me if the large structure with the red roof facing the inlet is the race track?
Thank you😊

All wonderful memories of a time when a fun night out could be had for well under 20 bucks. And a few cents more for a ride home on the Renfrew bus.