June 1, 2018

This is 40: Cambie Bridge West

Sadly, this may be the last in the series of panoramic retrospectives of Vancouver for a while.

Seeing the changes in our skylines, sightlines and view corridors over the years —via photographs from 1978, 2003, and 2018, by ‘Changing Vancouver‘ blog co-author Andy Coupland — has been somewhat startling.

Did we really have that many warehouses and heavy industry on now-coveted waterfront residential and recreational property? Was the world really that brown?

You know what happens to iron and steel in the rain — here’s the view westward from Cambie Bridge:

Click to see the full-size.

According to Andy, these bonus shots of East 2nd Avenue (below, from 2006 and 2018), will eventually be subject of a post on his blog. Indeed, the many changes here — especially between Columbia & Main — have been dramatic.

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