June 17th, 2018 — Main Street between Broadway and 30th Avenue was closed to vehicle traffic for most of Sunday.
Behind the beach
May 24th, 2003 — Behind the beach at Vesuvius Bay, Salt Spring Island.
Parking lot
June 8th, 2018 — This parking lot at Granville Street and Cordova looks to be slated for demolition. It’s interesting how people complain about how bad traffic is in downtown Vancouver but in this picture the streets are empty especially compared to the photograph below taken at the same corner in the 1970’s.
Abandoned boats
June 13th, 2018 — Abandoned boats in Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island.
Dragon boats
June 10th, 2018 — Dragon boats head out for a race in False Creek.
Property surtax
June 8th, 2018 — Property surtax protest sign at a house about to be demolished at 1299 West King Edward.
Homeless on Cordova
June 8th, 2018 — Homeless camp on West Cordova Street near Granville.
Telephone pole
June 7th, 2018 — Many years ago when newspapers were real newspapers they did a lot of crazy things with pictures. One I remember was in honour of pancake day. Yes there really is such a thing as pancake day. It has something to do with Lent. Anyway this particular picture was of a stack of pancakes. It started in the top left hand corner of the Vancouver Sun’s front page, two columns wide, and went all the way down to the bottom of the page where there were the words “continued on page two”. Flipping over to page two the picture continued from the top left hand corner all the way down to the bottom of page where there was a person next to the stack with a knife and fork and a hungry look on his face. It think the picture was taken by Ken Oakes. One of deficiencies of internet blogs is that they favour horizontals. Verticals seldom work. The pancake picture would never work. However this telephone pole in the laneway of 26th and Collingwood once covered in vines deserved something special so that’s why it is what it is.
Canoe
June 5th, 2018 — False Creek Racing Canoe Club canoe on its way down Whyte Avenue to the boat launch at Vanier Park.
Under the Burrard Bridge
June 5th, 2018 — Abandoned homeless campsite under the south end of the Burrard Bridge.