Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 6

Three Fountains and a Super Yacht

Do you remember the fountain at Lonsdale Quay? It had sails on top of a tiled base of green and blue swirls and whales and octopus and starfish. When my kids were small it was the best part of a visit next to ice cream and the ball room.

It broke down in 2020 and cost $300,000 to fix, now the only thing left to remember it by, is a round piece of asphalt used to patch the hole in the concrete.

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Italian Days 1977: a photo essay by Bruce Stewart

June is Italian heritage month, and this year Italian Days was held on Sunday June 9, 2024

I hate crowds, so I can’t give you a first-hand account of Italian Days this year. Having watched a couple of YouTube videos though, I can tell you that it was a gorgeous day that drew thousands of people to eat, drink and be entertained on Commercial Drive in what the Italians (or possibly City Hall) are billing as the largest cultural street festival in Vancouver.

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Arthur Erickson’s Pad

Arthur Erickson is featured in an exhibition at the West Vancouver Art Museum with photos by Selwyn Pullan

I dropped by the West Vancouver Art Museum Wednesday and joined a tour led by curator, Hilary Letwin. If you haven’t been there before, the Museum is by the Municipal Hall on 17th Street, just off Marine Drive, and housed in a funky stone house built by Gertrude Lawson in 1939.

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The Stanley Cup Riot (1994)

Thirty years ago today, I was the lucky Vancouver Sun reporter sent out to Surrey to ride the Skytrain downtown at the end of the Stanley Cup final. It didn’t matter who won (we lost 3-2 to the New York Rangers) everyone it seems except police, knew that there was going to be a riot.

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The Bizarre Case of Cindy James

Former Vancouver Sun crime reporter, Neal Hall, guest blogs about one of Vancouver’s most controversial cases. Thirty five years after 44-year-old Cindy James was found dead, people still wonder – was it suicide or murder? 

By Neal Hall

The most bizarre case I ever encountered in my 30-plus years as a reporter, was the case of Cindy James.

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Alice Munro’s B.C. Connection

Alice Munro died on May 13, 2024.  She leaves behind three daughters–Sheila, Jenny and Andrea and a huge body of work. A Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Munro was born in Ontario , but she lived in both North and West Vancouver, and wrote three of her most important books while living on Rockland Avenue in Victoria.

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MISSING: Sharon McKenzie-Cramond

Pam Neufeld runs a YouTube channel called Missing in BC. She came across a photo of Sharon McKenzie-Cramond on the Vancouver Police Department website Vancouver Missing Persons and was surprised when she searched for information and found nothing. Pam did a story on her channel in an attempt to get more information and connected with Sharon’s older brother Patrick Cramond, a now retired UBC instructor and engineer.

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A Charming 1904 Postcard

I found this charming little postcard dated August 7, 1904 while trolling Vancouver Archive’s website. It’s written to a Miss L.M. Woodrow “With every good wish for your birthday, from Emily.”

Second CPR station

I loved the picture of the second CPR station that briefly sat at the foot of Granville Street, and I wanted to know a little about Emily and the postcard’s recipient, Miss L.M.

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The Stanley Park Be-Ins

1967:

It’s been 57 years since the first Stanley Park Be-In. A local take on the be-in that had taken place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park two months before and set the tone for the Summer of Love.

Vancouver’s event was much smaller, but about a thousand hippies, and three times as many onlookers, turned up at Ceperley Park near Second Beach in March 1967, wearing colourful beaded vests with jeans and tattered evening gowns, even monk and clown costumes.

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Main Street Farmers Market

If I could time travel to the early 1900s, Vancouver’s Main Street Farmers Market would be in my top 10 buildings to visit. 

False Creek:

False Creek is a realtor’s dream. It’s a model of sustainability, with housing options—that include the condos and townhouses in the Olympic Village—a school, a seawall for walking and running and biking, and a waterway filled on any given day with kayaks and canoes and dragon boats.

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