old city hall.
it stood on the corner of northwest corner of main and pender, built around 1890, it served as city hall until the deco building on cambie was finished. not sure of the demolition date, but i'm told it was sometime in the 1960s (all photos from vpl archives).
before the carnegie library was built, there was a public market lot adjacent to city hall:
notice the horse troughs and so forth:
troughs gone, fire escape added:
addition built below the fire escape:
beautiful street profile:
a mini-civic centre at the edge of the core:
at the dawn of the automobile era:
it was damaged some time around 1930 and lost its clock tower:
and then in the 1940s, a new public market:
