Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 26

That House on Yale Street

We were trekking around Burrard View Park last week and came across this interesting looking house on Yale at North Kamloops Street.

Turns out the house was built in 1931 at a cost of $8,000—a lot of money smack in the middle of the Depression. Its owners were Joseph and Rosa Alvaro, who kept the house they had at 421 East Georgia in Strathcona as a warehouse, and moved their family (they had four boys and four girls) into the new digs.

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Burrard View Park

Last week we checked out the Trans Canada Trail in North Burnaby and stumbled over what was once Crabtown. This week we walked west to Burrard View Park in Hastings Sunrise and found some more buried history. 

At just shy of three acres, it’s not a big park, and runs between North Slocan, North Penticton, Yale and Wall Street.

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Crabtown

We’ve been taking advantage of the lack of traffic on the roads to take Pickles, our Chiweenie on some new trails. This week we ended up in North Burnaby, parked at the bottom of Boundary and walked along the Trans Canada Trail to Willingdon.

While I’m familiar with the squatters at Maplewood Flats and Cates Park on the North Van side of Burrard Inlet, I’d never heard of Crabtown, a collection of squatters’ homes built on raised pilings between the railway tracks and the water.

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111 Places in Vancouver that you may not know about

A few months back, I spent a frustrating hour searching for a plaque at the corner of West Hastings and Hamilton Streets. It was unveiled in 1953, as evidenced in a Vancouver Sun article and photo.

It wasn’t there.

Graeme Menzies, co-author of 111 Places in Vancouver that you Must Not Miss, tells me he did the same thing while researching his book and it’s entry #41: “Hamilton’s Missing Plaque.” Turns out it was taken down about five years ago when the CIBC building was demolished and it was never replaced.

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The Tomahawk Restaurant

I normally work out of my home, but at the moment I don’t have a lot of it (work that is) so I’ve been clearing out 30 years of old files. Today, I came across this menu from North Vancouver’s Tomahawk Restaurant.

Back in 2000, I was commissioned to write Frommers with Kids Vancouver.

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Meet Vancouver’s Newest Street Photographers

When I think of street photographers, the first names that usually spring to mind are Fred Herzog, Foncie Pullice, Greg Girard, Michael de Courcy, Curt Lang and Bruce Stewart. But there were so many other great photographers shooting Vancouver in the 1950s to 1980s—names like Paul Wong, Tony Westman, Angus McIntyre and Svend-Erik Eriksen (Where were the women?)

These days everybody has a cell phone, and while you might think that makes street photographers irrelevant, there’s a group called Vancouver Street Photography Collective that are doing some really interesting things.

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Meet Vancouver’s newest Street Photographers

When I think of street photographers, the first names that usually spring to mind are Fred Herzog, Foncie Pullice, Greg Girard, Michael de Courcy, Curt Lang and Bruce Stewart. But there were so many other great photographers shooting Vancouver in the 1950s to 1980s—names like Paul Wong, Tony Westman, Angus McIntyre and Svend-Erik Eriksen (Where were the women?)

These days everybody has a cell phone, and while you might think that makes street photographers irrelevant, there’s a group called Vancouver Street Photography Collective that are doing some really interesting things.

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Vancouver After Dark: Richards on Richards

Aaron Chapman’s latest book Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife is a delightful romp through the ghosts of nightclubs past. Aaron’s behind-the-scenes stories  are told in such a way, it’s like sitting down and having a beer with him. There are too many clubs to list here—everything from Chinatown’s Marco Polo to Oil Can Harry’s, The Smilin’ Buddha, to the Cave.

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Jack Cash, Photographer

I first heard about Jack Cash when I was researching his mother Gwen Cash, who when she went to work for Walter Nichol at the Vancouver Daily Province in 1917, became one of the first female news reporter in the country. With the formidable Gwen as his mother, it’s not surprising that Jack also went into the newspaper business.

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Thornton Tunnel

I’ve had a fascination with the Thornton Tunnel for some time now—ever since I first read about it on the Nostalgic/Sentimental Vancouver Pictures site (thank you Michael Arnold and Allen Doolan). I finally had the chance to explore it and take some photos.

The Thornton Tunnel took CN two years to build (1967-1969) and is 3.4 kms long.

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