Aerial view of north end of Granville Street Bridge and downtown Vancouver, BC, circa-1964. [B.C. Gov't photo]

Canada Place and the Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canad

PHOTO NUMBER: 81669 DESCRIPTION: Aristocratic Restaurant, Granville Street & West Broadway, Vancouver, BC PHOTOGRAPHER: Artray DATE: 1951 SUBJECTS:Restaurants, Neon More information on our historical photograph collection: www.vpl.ca/historicalphotos

In 1889 Montreal photographer William McFarlane Notman went to the top of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s new Hotel Vancouver and took a photo of downtown, looking north.

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Granville street, we used to call it Theater Row for a reason!

1915: An unfamiliar downtown Vancouver, strewn with beautiful houses and parks. Notice the old Canadian flag - its original shield with the union jack. Photo by W.J Moore, colourization 2011.

1965-2008 location of the flagship of the failed electronics/music retailer.

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Vancouver sure has changed over the past 40 years. After sitting in storage for several decades, photographer POP SNAP uncovered the slides they had put away and started basic lo-res scanning of these Kodachrome pictures. Kodachrome is quite challenging to scan, as they told us, but as you can see, it was all worth it. POP SNAP’s interest was largely in buildings and structures, which form the basis for most of the photos. Almost all pictures from the set were shot on sunny days. We’ve…

Down by the docks in Vancouver BC 1953

Aristocratic Restaurant at 2501 Granville Street at West Broadway (SW corner). Photo taken September 28, 1951. This was the fifth site for the restaurant chain, opening in 1940. This also had drive-in service in the lot behind the Village Shops building. The famous, central neon sign attributed to this building was not installed until 1960. This is probably the most remembered of all the Aristocratic sites due to its prominent location, memorable, vintage neon signage and the fact that it…

Wigwam Inn, at the head of Indian Arm, North Vancouver

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