In honour of Vancouver Fashion Week, which is coming up September 16th to September 21st, I have scoured the Vancouver Public Library and City of Vancouver Archives for photos of fashions of yore. Today’s “Archive Photos of the Day” theme is Hats: 1900s: Granville Street. Archives# CVA 1376-724. Phorographer: Philip T. Timms & Actress signed […]
Historically, the month of September has had its share of milestones and events in Vancouver. Everything from the disastrous “Great Fire” in New Westminster to the opening of Rogers Arena in 1995, the formation of The Vancouver Board of Trade in 1887, and the dedication of the steam-clock in Gastown on September 24, 1977. Today’s […]
Before heading down to Disneyland in Anaheim from San Francisco this August our group took a 1-day detour up to Napa and stayed in Calistoga. Keeping with the family-friendly theme of our trip, we visited a winery where children are welcome and even get their very own local drink (non-alcoholic of course) to swirl, sip, […]
Fully prepared to put together a Vancouver Icons photo post today, I browsed the Miss604 Flickr Group for some inspiration and I found a beautiful shot of a cruise ship at the terminal in downtown Vancouver by Nattawot Juttiwattananon (below). While cruise ships don’t quite fit my Vancouver Icons series, there are enough colourfully composed […]
I dreamt up today’s photo feature from the Vancouver Public Library and City of Vancouver Archives as I do many others: I type in a subject that I think might be featured in bunch of archive photos and see what comes up. Today, that word was horses and I am in luck. The first gasoline-powered […]