Historic Vancouver Photos - Page 14

hollywoodnorth · #**261** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 2:21 AM**

July 18, 1956. Oak St. Bridge under construction, south end. Aerial views of bridges for News. (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

the view up CAMBIE .... is .... AWESOME! ...... 50 years ago ....... nothing on the south part .....

also Bridgeport in Richmond was a rural Farming community .... wow!

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

July 18, 1956. North end of Granville St. Bridge, Vancouver. Aerial views of bridges for News. (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

*viaduct alert avert your eyes all people named Geoff Meggs*

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

Metro-One · #**262** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 5:24 AM**

Nice pics! Good find.

hehe, and we all know nothing has been built arround Granville Street bridge since and that entire area is a wasteland

What sucks the most is how the Granvlle Street bridge cuts off all of downtown from the waterfront and how it cuts of the west end from downtown.......

oh god, sorry, i think Geoff Meggs possessed my body for a moment,

Dylan Leblanc · #**263** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 6:50 AM**

wow love seeing those!

here's an old bird's eye view type drawing that were popular in the 19th century.

Alex Mackinnon · #**264** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 7:40 AM**

I always find it odd that Gore is off angle compared to all the other streets around it. I figured there would have been a reason for it back then, but if there were actually streets laid down before most of the building it doesn't really make sense.

Any ideas?

Millennium2002 · #**265** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 10:15 AM**

Could be due to all sorts of factors:
- bad surveying, although judging by other streets that probably isn't the case
- odd land purchases were used to make the road aka Narita Airport's third runway... again few cheap buildings to start off with so that also seems unlikely
- perhaps the most likely... a failed attempt to bend the street network to the contours of the shoreline... perhaps they abandoned that plan after seeing how expensive and confusing it'd be.

hollywoodnorth · #**266** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Metro-One

Nice pics! Good find.

hehe, and we all know nothing has been built arround Granville Street bridge since and that entire area is a wasteland

What sucks the most is how the Granvlle Street bridge cuts off all of downtown from the waterfront and how it cuts of the west end from downtown.......

oh god, sorry, i think Geoff Meggs possessed my body for a moment,

LUUUULLLZZZZ

love it! hahaha! oh meggy what a guy.

Alex Mackinnon · #**267** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 8:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by allan_kuan

Could be due to all sorts of factors:
- bad surveying, although judging by other streets that probably isn't the case
- odd land purchases were used to make the road aka Narita Airport's third runway... again few cheap buildings to start off with so that also seems unlikely
- perhaps the most likely... a failed attempt to bend the street network to the contours of the shoreline... perhaps they abandoned that plan after seeing how expensive and confusing it'd be.

I've considered those, sadly most of the buildings fronting Gore especially in the south end aren't origional, and a lot of them don't really address the angle. It's bugged me for a while.

Dylan Leblanc · #**268** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

Here's the same area today - http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=s5z...BC&form=LMLTCC

Amazing that some of the houses are still there.

Pinion · #**269** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 9:18 PM**

It looks to me like Gore was angled so it would have an intersection before the Georgia/Dunsmuir viaducts (which were originally built in 1913) rather than have to come to an abrupt end. Just a guess. I realize some of Gore pre-dates 1913 but the northern-most couple blocks are straight north-south.

entheosfog · #**270** Posted **Aug 3, 2011, 2:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon

I always find it odd that Gore is off angle compared to all the other streets around it. I figured there would have been a reason for it back then, but if there were actually streets laid down before most of the building it doesn't really make sense.

Any ideas?

The reason is very historical, actually. Gore follows the approximate route of a skid road that supplied logs to the old Hastings Mill site that sat on the shore of the Burrard Inlet at the foot of where Gore is today, from about the late 1860s to 1929. The city eventually expanded up that way with the grid but that route had already been established for some time. Kind of the same way Kingsway is at that angle, it was an old route that led to New Westminster from False Creek and the city's grid eventually was built around it.
Now you know!

David · #**271** Posted **Aug 3, 2011, 10:14 PM**

Speaking of weird roads that don't fit the grid, I've always wondered the reason East 15th Ave is laid out so weird from about Main until Commercial. I understand that area was roughly the old boundary between Vancouver and South Vancouver, but is there another reason, like Gore, that it was laid out like that?

google maps link for reference: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=east+15...78.662109&z=15

entheosfog · #**272** Posted **Aug 4, 2011, 2:00 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by David

Speaking of weird roads that don't fit the grid, I've always wondered the reason East 15th Ave is laid out so weird from about Main until Commercial. I understand that area was roughly the old boundary between Vancouver and South Vancouver, but is there another reason, like Gore, that it was laid out like that?

google maps link for reference: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=east+15...78.662109&z=15

I don't know for sure, but I bet it would have something to do with Trout Lake being at the end of it...

David · #**273** Posted **Aug 4, 2011, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by entheosfog

I don't know for sure, but I bet it would have something to do with Trout Lake being at the end of it...

Hmmm, I think you have a good theory there, now that I look again it was probably intended as a connection from the Kingsway route to the lake. Thanks!

Zassk · #**274** Posted **Aug 4, 2011, 11:00 PM**

I will hazard a guess that the road was not called 15th Ave originally, and that its number was just "best-fit" into the surrounding street grid that was planned later.

entheosfog · #**275** Posted **Aug 5, 2011, 7:14 AM**

All the numbered avenues didn't start out as numbers; they were all originally named then changed to make it easier to navigate (I suppose that was the reason...)

hollywoodnorth · #**276** Posted **Aug 10, 2011, 10:52 PM**

[ca. 1960 ]. Downtown Vancouver, Georgia Street looking east. Post Office in background. (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

June 9, 1965. View of downtown Vancouver (looking SE) from the roof of the Bayshore Inn. (CBC/Franz Lindner)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

Summer [ca. 1958]. Residences in Vancouver’s West End. (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

April 22, 1955. Downtown Vancouver, Burrard St. (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

[summer 1965]. Courthouse lawn, Georgia St. looking toward Granville St. (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

Downtown Vancouver at dusk. June 26, 1961. Rear screen image for "Night Beat". (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg

Downtown Vancouver at night. June 26, 1961. Rear screen image for "Night Beat". (CBC/Alvin Armstrong)

pic c/o >> http://www.cbc.ca/photos/galleries/1...b_enlarged.jpg