Vancouver History

[mbarrick]

Last Friday valerian and I cashed in some free tickets _disdain_ gave us and went to Storeum. After watching an hour of glossed-over, politically-corrected history we went for a very Vancouver dinner at the White Spot and got to talking about the less politically correct bits of Vancouver history and how it would be fun to offer a historical tour that get into the guts of the city built on a foundation of booze and opium and from which the term "Skid Row" originates. Then along comes contrasoma with this thread. Must be some weird zeigeist.

Here's another one for you, Bruce:

What was BowMac?

Comments

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't have been that long ago, the Toys 'R' Us was built around 10 years ago. It was still a (vacant) car lot when I started working a block from it in 1994.

The BowMac sign is has a heritage plaque on it but I think it's kind of pointless because they have the Toys R Us sign overtop obstructing it. Kind of defeats the purpose. They'd been better to relocate the BowMac sign elsewhere.

Speaking of neon signs, Chapters on Granville still has the Aristocrat "Risty" sign inside their store. That was another landmark now no more.

[(Anonymous)]

well i remember bowmac from the early '70s when there wasn't much else on broadway of particular note...