Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 9
June 3, 2023
Frits Jacobsen: Anatomy of an East Van House
Frits Jacobsen arrived in Vancouver in 1968. He was a prolific artist and captured some of Vancouver’s iconic and long-gone buildings such as Birks, the Englesea Lodge, and the Orillia on Robson Street. He also drew some that have survived. Two that I’ve seen are the Manhattan Apartments on Thurlow and Main Street’s Heritage Hall.
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May 26, 2023
Taken: Casey Rose Bohun
On August 4, 1989, Barbara Bohun and her two daughters, Casey 3, and 14-month old Stacy were at a family barbecue in Maple Ridge. Barbara’s sister Beverly drove them home to Delta, tucked Casey into bed, and Barbara’s partner, Jonathan Poile showed her the way home via the Alex Fraser Bridge.
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May 19, 2023
Grand Canyon: a Series of Unfortunate Events
I’m just back from a road trip that included the Grand Canyon. The place is beyond spectacular and I’ll spare you my clumsy attempt to try to capture its spirit. Instead, I thought I’d tell you the story of a plane crash.
At 9:01 am on June 30, 1956, 64 passengers and six crew left Los Angeles airport on TWA Flight 2 to Kansas City following a 31-minute maintenance delay.
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May 12, 2023
The Nightclub Murders
Gail Sandra Rogers, 26 known as Sam to her friends, was last seen on February 17, 1975, after working a shift as a go-go dancer at the Penthouse Night Club on Seymour Street. Gail’s sister Karen reported her missing and when police went to check her Kitsilano basement suite, they found a carpet and a claw hammer stained with blood.
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May 5, 2023
Trans-Canada Air Lines
I put up a post on April 28 to mark the day that Trans-Canada Air Lines flight 3 took off from Lethbridge on a routine flight to Vancouver. The Lockheed Lodestar never made it, and 47 years would pass until there would be any answers.
Dale Brandon wrote to tell me that her mother Audrey (Tavender) Brandon was supposed to be one of three crew members on that flight.
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April 28, 2023
The Search for Brenda Byman
In 2019, I was asked to put a post up about Brenda Byman, a 12-year-old girl who went missing from outside Invermere, BC on May 7, 1961. Despite one of the biggest searches in the province’s history, no trace of her has ever been found. I read a few newspaper articles, talked to Brenda’s sisters, and wrote up a short post on the anniversary of her disappearance with a photo provided by her family.
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April 22, 2023
The Tomahawk Restaurant
In 2000, I signed a contract with a Toronto publisher to write Frommer’s with Kids Vancouver. I was a freelance journalist with three kids under eight, and part of the job was to road-test every activity and restaurant and side trip included in the book.
Story from: Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
After the first week, my kids were begging to stay home.
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April 14, 2023
The Box-Cutter Murder: Gladys Wakabayashi
On June 24, 1992 Jean Ann James, a 53-year-old former Canadian Pacific Airlines flight attendant, went to the Shaughnessy home of her husband’s wealthy younger lover, and slit her throat with a box cutter. It would take police another 19 years to catch her.
Twelve-year-old Elisa Wakabayashi waited for two hours for her mother to pick her up after school.
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April 8, 2023
Burnaby’s Oak Theatre – Then and Now
The Oak Theatre sat at Kingsway near Royal Oak Avenue in Burnaby from 1937 to 1963.
Opening night with CKWX’s Billie Browne, was August 4, 1937. He introduced feature film White Bondage, comedy shorts Blonde Bomber and Hotel a la Swing, and a cartoon called Porky’s Building.
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April 1, 2023
Lindsey Nicholls: Vanished
On the day that 14-year-old Lindsey Nicholls disappeared, she was last seen walking down Royston Road, outside of Comox on Vancouver Island. It was August 2, 1993—the Monday of the BC Day long weekend, and Lindsey was meeting friends at the annual Comox Nautical Days Festival.
Comox:
Lindsey was a slim five foot three with green eyes and long blond hair.
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