Category Archives: Jack Lindsay
The Age of the Searchlight
The late 1920s and 1930s was the age of the searchlight in Vancouver. Searchlights were not a new thing. They had been in use in 19th century Europe. Indeed, they were not new to Vancouver, either. Searchlight technology was in … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century Studios, advertising, art deco, bc, Beacon Theatre, Canadian Diamond Jubilee, Grouse Mountain, history, HMCS Patriciam, lighthouses, Rev. Duncan McDougall, Rev. Elbert Paul, shaughnessy heights, Style Moderne, vancouver
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Historical Corner: Terminal & Main
I encountered this image in CVA’s online holdings a couple of months ago. I was initially puzzled as to where this service station was located; but it didn’t take too long for me to realize that this was the SE … Continue reading
Salvation Army Service at First Baptist Church
The image above and the two below were taken by photographer, Jack Lindsay, of a Salvation Army service held in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, Vancouver. According to City of Vancouver archivists, these were made sometime in the period between … Continue reading
Posted in churches, First Baptist Church, Vancouver, Jack Lindsay
Tagged bc, First Baptist Church, history, Salvation Army, vancouver, worship service
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Another Controversial Subject: Vancouver Housing
Traffic congestion and inadequate housing are subjects which are revisited regularly in Vancouver. The previous post was a look at how the City tried to persuade residents not to be ‘Traffic Peakers’ in the 1940s. This post is a reproduction of … Continue reading
Victory on 500 Block of West Hastings
This is a very nice image made by Jack Lindsay, probably on VE or VJ Day.* The photographer was on ground level for this shot, standing in a vacant parking spot in front of the Bank of Toronto building (later, the … Continue reading
Name Those Streets!
I will show below three City of Vancouver Archives (CVA) photos. Each photo has been wrongly identified by CVA. Your challenge (if I may borrow from the theme of a 1950s-80s U.S. television network game show) is to correctly Name Those Streets! … Continue reading
Posted in Jack Lindsay, street scenes
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Butter Packing ’40s-Style
It is mildly shocking to our (or, perhaps more accurately, my) contemporary sensibilities to see butter being cut by patently non-antiseptic metal machinery and handled by people without any gloves. Ah well, the folks who consumed the butter were doubtless glad … Continue reading
Posted in interiors, Jack Lindsay, technology
Tagged bc, co-operatives, dairy, history, Saskatchewan butter, vancouver
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Concert Pianist, Conductor, Theatre Manager…
Maynard Joiner lived a long and fruitful life. He was born on one coast of North America (in Boston) in 1894 and died on another (in Vancouver) in 1990. By the time he was 10, he was considered a child prodigy. His forté was as … Continue reading
‘Tame’ Big Band
I have been a big fan of the ‘big band’ music genre for many years (when friends were wild about KISS in the 1970s, I was nuts for Benny Goodman), but Wayne King was not a band leader with whose … Continue reading
Posted in broadcasting, Jack Lindsay, music
Tagged american, bc, ckwx, history, vancouver, wayne king orchestra
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Fur Vault
The first and second image in this post were apparently commissioned by Nelson’s Laundry to local pro photographer Jack Lindsay to demonstrate the secure fur coat storage service offered by the launderer. It is difficult to recall/conceive in this day when fur … Continue reading
Posted in businesses, Jack Lindsay, street scenes, stuart thomson
Tagged bc, cambie street, fur coats, history, nelson's laundry, vancouver, vaults
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Peculiar Product Pairing
This product pairing, to my 21st-century eyes at any rate, seems very odd. It isn’t clear from the archival record just what kind of shop this window was in (hardware, grocery, department store?), but I’m hard-pressed to think of why Bendix … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, Jack Lindsay
Tagged bc, bendix, burns, pork, spam, spork, vancouver, washers, window display
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A Few of my Favourite Junk Yards
I confess to a longstanding fondness for junk yards; well, actually it is more accurate to say that I harbour a fondness for the idea of junk yards. This is a holdover, I think, from my pre-teen enchantment with The Three Investigators … Continue reading
From Rail/Industrial Park to Artificial Turf
This green space on the outskirts of downtown today is known as Andy Livingstone Park. From 1915-1960s, the first Georgia Viaduct would have cut across the southern section of where the park is today. Before the artificial turf of the athletic … Continue reading
Courthouse Fountain ‘Switcheroo’
These images are of roughly the same view of the north side of the Vancouver Courthouse (as it then was; now, although not for much longer, the Vancouver Art Gallery). The top image is of a drinking fountain on the … Continue reading
Posted in books/reading, Jack Lindsay, parks, postcards, street scenes, yesterday & today
Tagged art gallery, bc, charles marega, courthouse, devonshire hotel, fountain, georgia hotel, history, king edward vii, vancouver
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Vancouver As It Was: A Photo-Historical Journey 