Historic Vancouver Photos - Page 25

SpongeG · #**481** Posted **Jan 19, 2014, 7:10 PM**

many more pics to look at where these came from source

and more here

Klazu · #**482** Posted **Jan 19, 2014, 7:31 PM**

Very interesting photos. Thank you for posting!

whatnext · #**483** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 12:30 AM**

There's nothing like Kodachrome. You can find POP SNAP's complete photostream on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49469560@N07/sets/

osirisboy · #**484** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 12:37 AM**

Wow it looked like a dump back then

Klazu · #**485** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 5:55 AM**

Few interesting ones that caught my eye (sorry, not sure how to link them from Flickr).

Robson Street

Coal Harbour before being built. Didn't know The Cube was already there!

Where is this building located? It looks like it could be from the 2000s.

Same with this one. Is that Skytrain under construction?

officedweller · #**486** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 6:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Few interesting ones that caught my eye (sorry, not sure how to link them from Flickr).

Where is this building located? It looks like it could be from the 2000s.

Same with this one. Is that Skytrain under construction?

Bellevue Ave. would be in West Vancouver.

The other is the Park Royal office tower and elevated roadway.

itinerant · #**487** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 6:35 AM**

Edit: Looks like officedweller beat me to it.

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Where is this building located? It looks like it could be from the 2000s.

West Vancouver 1960's apartment building on Bellevue Avenue called The Shoreland.
https://www.google.ca/maps?ll=49.329583,...PQ68ak-MDr93X3ppvYg&cbp=12,148.06,,0,1.4

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Same with this one. Is that Skytrain under construction?

1970's office building on west bank of the Capilano River in West Vancouver, just south of Marine Drive. Those things that looks like part of Skytrain are the supports for the ramp from the bridge over the Capilano River (to the right) that goes to present-day Future Shop on upper level of Park Royal South.

Pinion · #**488** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 8:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Coal Harbour before being built. Didn't know The Cube was already there!

It was nice in those days because you could see Burrard inlet from under the cube.

I came back to Vancouver in 1987 but still feel very nostalgic looking at those pics.

spm2013 · #**489** Posted **Jan 20, 2014, 6:36 PM**

There are some photos of the Westcoast building under construction in the Vancouver Archives (they aren't on the web because of copyright, so you can only see the thumbnails..)

http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/;search?query=westcoast+under+construction

Also if you look at some old photos the area was filled with a lot of industrial/port facilities and it's more park like now than in the 60s (minus the condo towers).

http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/ruins...-1900-west-georgia-street-after-fire;rad

Klazu · #**490** Posted **Mar 2, 2014, 10:06 PM**

Nice aerial of Downtown from the beginning of last century.

http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca

officedweller · #**491** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 12:45 AM**

Thanks.
There appear to be 3 large buildings at the eastern foot of Robson Street (on Beatty) - where Terry Fox Plaza is (and the former approach to the Connaught Bridge) - I suppose those were demolished for the old bridge access (or does the access skirt those buildings, as a bridge seems visible there)?

Spork · #**492** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 1:54 AM**

Now that's an interesting angle.

Of note:
-What is that tall cylindrical thing in the middle of the photo?
-Note that you can see Central Park off in the distance with its trees standing tall. (EDIT: Or is that QE park?)

officedweller · #**493** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 3:01 AM**

That's the gasometer - a coal burning facility (the cause of much of the contaminated soils in the area).

http://illustratedvancouver.ca/post/69091464439/carrall-street-gas-plant

and that would be Central Park in the distance.

Jebby · #**494** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 4:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Nice aerial of Downtown from the beginning of last century.

Beginning? If I'm not mistaken I see the current Hotel Vancouver in that shot, meaning it's post-1939. The Marine building is also there which was built in 1930.

So I'd day mid-last century.

Klazu · #**495** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 4:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jebby

Beginning? If I'm not mistaken I see the current Hotel Vancouver in that shot, meaning it's post-1939. The Marine building is also there which was built in 1930.

Thanks. I didn't know the exact year when posting this, but was thinking it would be around that era. Although, you must admit that the view itself looks like it could as well be from the 19th century!

Considering that it's only 75 years old photo, it's truly remarkable to see how much this city has changed. I mean, there are still people alive that remember Vancouver looking like that, so just think how they may feel about this city having changed during their lifetime! It must be mindblowing!

vansky · #**496** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 5:59 AM**

population must've been around half a mllion back then, which means...most of vancouver city roads were laid out already, and it hasn't change all that much. many bridge were built pre-60s, and they are still there. i'm not sure why u would want to c anything replaced over maintenence, as it is history. vancouver is the demonstration of north american city planning, architecture and culture in the past 100 years, many malls and parking lots were built around the 60s. it still is classic in terms of shopping and car culture, despite being over taken in size, grandiousity, and aesthetic by malls around the world.

and despite borrowing ideas from other places, it's still a very typical north american city.

people else where are nothere to see what they could see back then in their homeland, they are here to get a taste of canada and north amrica, i'd strongly recommend the city to go back to seriously consider widening highways, building bigger parking lots and suburban shopping experience, perhaps, even striek a few 300ms just to show the world who's the real fetish for technology and consumerism.

but families hsould have 1 car for weekly shopping and entertainment, buses pass for work and bikes with motors for short distance travellnig.

Tetsuo · #**497** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 6:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jebby

Beginning? If I'm not mistaken I see the current Hotel Vancouver in that shot, meaning it's post-1939. The Marine building is also there which was built in 1930.

So I'd day mid-last century.

but the picture has the Denman Arena that burned down in 1936

Jebby · #**498** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 7:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tetsuo

but the picture has the Denman Arena that burned down in 1936

That is strange...What year was Hotel Vancouver topped out? I know it opened in May 1939, but I doubt it took 3 years between topping out and opening.

whatnext · #**499** Posted **Mar 3, 2014, 7:54 PM**

The third Hotel Vancouver sat empty as a shell for several years due to the Depression.

hollywoodnorth · #**500** Posted **Mar 4, 2014, 12:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

That's the gasometer - a coal burning facility (the cause of much of the contaminated soils in the area).

http://illustratedvancouver.ca/post/69091464439/carrall-street-gas-plant

and that would be Central Park in the distance.

also of note is what seems to be a 2nd Gasometer on what would be Clark Drive now. you can see it just above the Vancouver Sun building ..... see that?

looks like a set of 2 Gasometers ... small and large ..... interesting!