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Oct. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Old School Heritage Program

Always glad to promote the courses from the Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Survival Tales: The Stories of Three Renovations October 12th,…
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Sep. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Name That Building

Bonus point for its location – before it was demolished. It’s the second Hotel Vancouver, located at the 100-per-cent corner…
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Sep. 29, 2011 / Gordon Price

Vancouver, the Backdrop

Is it just me, or does Vancouver seem to be serving as the set for a lot of commercials, particularly…
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Sep. 21, 2011 / Gordon Price

Rogues Gallery

Another piece of the Canada Line Public Art Program just appeared at Granville and Robson, on the side of the…
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Sep. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

The West End: A Planning Tour

I hear the guide is pretty good:   Heritage Vancouver presents A Planning Tour of Vancouver’s West End  Tour Guide:…
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Sep. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

Melbourne and Vancouver: the real source of our livability and wealth

Despite that silly little competition in The Economist over “World’s Most Livable City” between Melbourne and Vancouver, we have something far…
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Sep. 07, 2011 / Gordon Price

Numbers

A friend asked for the following: From 1990 to 2010 , what was the increase in the square footage of office…
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Sep. 05, 2011 / Gordon Price

States of Mind: A Comparison

We posted the ‘original’ below – a faithful parody of “Empire State of Mind” adapted for Vancouver. How faithful? Compare…
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Aug. 31, 2011 / Gordon Price

A Century of Fashion in 100 Seconds

Not sure what’s it’s for – but it’s so well done: . UPDATE: That didn’t take long: It’s for Westfield Stratford…
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Aug. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Vancouver State of Mind

Lots of different views of Vancouver today.  Here’s another one, supposedly a parody – a take-off on Empire State of…
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Aug. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Gasp! Shock! Vancouver only third most livable city

Because of the Malahat: It was not the riots that did it. Instead it was an adjustment in Vancouver’s score…
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Aug. 29, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Best of Brian Gould

Actually, the only Brian Gould works I know of … videos at least.  I referenced Brian’s videos before, but since…
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Aug. 25, 2011 / Gordon Price

Subversive Bicycle Photos: Vancouver

The Copenhagenize blog’s series on subversive bike photos picks up some from Miss604. Like these: 1966 – Bikes at Blundell…
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Aug. 25, 2011 / Gordon Price

Strathcona on Sep 25

Put this in your calendar – Sep 25.  Follow the details here.…

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