Tag Archives: courthouse
Corrected Image by Horizontal Flip
It can be disorienting when a historical image’s negative is printed from the wrong side. By viewing the image to the right, you can see the way the image appears on CVA as of mid-February, 2017. (That the image was … Continue reading
Posted in businesses, cafes/restaurants/eateries, churches, Ernie Reksten, hotels/motels/inns
Tagged Arthur Erickson, bc, bc hydro building, block 61, clements block, comfort stations, courthouse, Danceland, Elektra, history, Johann Strauss Hotel, Law Courts Complex, Mayfair Hotel, public washrooms, robson street, Sheraton Wall Centre, Sir William Dawson School, St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, vancouver
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Robson Square Ice Rink Formerly Public W.C.
If you are a Vancouver resident or have visited the city, you will probably know that these apparently quite handsome public washrooms are no longer here (there are two remaining sets of these relics, neither in the downtown core and … Continue reading
Betwixt and Between
This post consists of two 1914 images that appear to have been made on the same day by BCER (and of the mates made last week by the author). The 1914 images were interesting to me because they were made at one … Continue reading
Posted in hospitals/health care, street scenes, yesterday & today
Tagged bc, City Hospital, courthouse, history, vancouver, victory square
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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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