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Old Posted Mar 15, 2019, 9:41 PM
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... and the regional designation as a Municipal Town Centre.
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Old Posted May 10, 2019, 11:54 PM
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Not actually available on-line, unfortunately...

Over 1,000 City Planning Library reports now available!
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/201...d778ff96aa4cc6


An artistic presentation of a proposed redevelopment of the central downtown waterfront: Page 35 of Vancouver central waterfront (National Harbours Board, 1977)
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/201...d778ff96aa4cc6
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An artistic presentation of a proposed redevelopment of the central downtown waterfront: Page 35 of Vancouver central waterfront (National Harbours Board, 1977)
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/201...d778ff96aa4cc6
That's the 'Festival Market' that was originally going to be Vancouver's equivalent to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. The plans were advanced enough that there's actually a staircase in Gaslight Square, the 1974 building on Water Street, that would have been one of the pedestrian bridges over the tracks to the waterfront buildings, that look quite a bit like Lonsdale Quay in that illustration.

If my understanding of the history is correct, the whole project was dropped, apparently quite suddenly, when the Federal Minister from Vancouver, Ron Basford, decided he wanted the market to be built at Granville Island instead.
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Thanks for the background.
I suppose that decision avoided conflict between recreational and Port industrial uses.
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Development plan for north False Creek, produced by Concord Pacific Developments, in 1988.


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That was the lagoons version.
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Downtown Vancouver 1979 and 2019 compared

There's a relatively famous photo of downtown Vancouver from 1979 and I was curious to see if I could find a current photo from a similar perspective and then overlay them as best as I could using Photoshop's various stretching, skewing, and distortion tools. Here are the results.


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The end result is far from ideal, but I still like how it turn out.
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We've put a couple of similar 'before and now' aerial shots on the ChangingVancouver blog, based on Trish Jewison's twitter feed and Archives images.

Here's one from 1953 [source]



and here's another from 1956 [source]

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^ Those are great. Thanks for sharing them.
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Development plan for north False Creek, produced by Concord Pacific Developments, in 1988.


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"Mix of market and social housing"

Uh huh, and that permanent park in Northeast False Creek has been a wonderful addition to the area...
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Personally, I think that particular Yaletown would've been much better.
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Personally, I think that particular Yaletown would've been much better.
It almost certainly couldn't have been built though. The whole point of David Lam Park, George Wainborn Park (as well as Creekside Park) is that they allowed the severely polluted soils to remain untouched, and adding canals wouldn't have allowed that approach. There also wouldn't have been the same continuous public waterside walkway - which would be a great loss, in my opinion.
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Another bank holiday, so another historic aerial before and after on the Changing Vancouver blog.


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Another bank holiday, so another historic aerial before and after on the Changing Vancouver blog.


Yikes, you're know you're old when the historic "before" photo seems recent to you!
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Iconic Vancouver photographer Fred Herzog passed away on Monday. He captured a city that is lost today. This quote struck me:

...In his later days Herzog sometimes bemoaned the lack of colour on the Vancouver streets of today, compared to the time when he shot its streets. “It’s boring now,” he argued, “because when you walk down the street you see only a grey concrete building with aluminum trimmings and a neat sign which you’ve already seen 200 times before because it’s part of a chain of dry cleaners or banks or sandwich shops.”
https://www.straight.com/arts/130023...died-monday-88

You can see his work here:
https://www.equinoxgallery.com/artis.../fred-herzog/3
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Totally agree with him how it has become more sterile. Although I would take it over the Vancouver seen in his pictures. Looks like a depressing dump

One thing that is noticeable is the total lack of trees back then. Even if the buildings were still colourful and unique they would be hidden behind all the trees now.
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Totally agree with him how it has become more sterile. Although I would take it over the Vancouver seen in his pictures. Looks like a depressing dump

One thing that is noticeable is the total lack of trees back then. Even if the buildings were still colourful and unique they would be hidden behind all the trees now.
A “dump”? I don’t remember it that way, though my memory doesn’t go back quite that far. But if it’s a dump, the streets and sidewalks sure are clean.
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It's a stat holiday again, so here's another Archives aerial compared to a recent shot by Trish Jewison in the Golbal BC helicopter. Some of the changes since 1947 are explained on the blog page.

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Nice one!
Perfect angles.
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A “dump”? I don’t remember it that way, though my memory doesn’t go back quite that far. But if it’s a dump, the streets and sidewalks sure are clean.
East Hastings, Chinatown and Gastown were definitely no dumps back then, although Strathcona, Hogan alley, SFH and the industrial areas near the waters were pretty dumpy.

East Vancouver hasn't seen much change. Still looks like the 60s and 70s, with many of the lanes not even paved by CoV.
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