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15 totally 80's moments from a defunct Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­newspaper

A couple weeks back I happened upon the "morgue" for a newspaper that Glacier Media used to publish, here at our new office where we work alongside other Glacier properties The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Courier , Westender , BIV , The Growler and REW.ca .

A couple weeks back I happened upon the "morgue" for a newspaper that Glacier Media used to publish, here at our new office where we work alongside other Glacier properties , , , and . Since we were a couple months back I've learned more about the newspaper industry than I thought I ever would - one thing I've learned is that a "morgue" is a bound "archive" of newspaper editions - and I've also learned a lot more about our city and how it looked in 1986, thanks to a morgue.

The literally dusty volume in my hands right now is for a weekly called the EastEnder, which was a paper that was published from 1983 until 1989. It was a sister paper to the Westender back when the cultural distance between being from East Van and Kitsilano was similar to today's Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­to Fraser Valley divide.

There's no digital archive of this paper available, so in an initial attempt to drum up interest in digitizing it I've started a thread on Twitter. I take a few moments of every day to shoot an image of a story or an ad and share it.

The ads and stories are weird. Some are entirely not PC (the word "hookers" is often used to describe prostitutes), others are a window into brands and advertising practices of the day, the excitement around Expo 86, and the community as a whole. It's an interesting overview of the East side of our city in 1986, and below are a few of the standouts I've stumbled upon so far.

is a direct link to the Twitter thread. I'll be attempting to add to it every day, and we just might do something more with this archive in the future.