Via Durning, a gentle black-and-white video from the CBC Vancouver program the 7 O’CLOCK SHOW special series on “Urbanism.” (Click title for video.)
This footage depicts the oldest neighbourhood in Vancouver (near the Port) Gastown and the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver.*
Older buildings (many vacant) on Alexander, Columbia, Carrall and Powell Streets are featured. In 1964 this was an area of the city in transition, where heritage buildings were neglected and vulnerable to idea of modernism.
*In the days when it was necessary to inform people where Gastown was, and before part of it was renamed the Downtown East Side. And in the days when the fabled ‘7-O’clock Show’ would commission and run a visual essay without narration.
