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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Vie's and Viaducts, 1971

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Vie's and Viaducts, 1971

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . The now apparently doomed Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts replaced the old Georgia Viaduct that was built in 1915.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: The Cellar, 1964

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4TWhYDGJuQ This is an excerpt from an NFB documentary entitled In Search of Innocence about how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Komagata Maru, 1914

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Komagata Maru, 1914

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Ninety-eight years ago today, a Japanese ship named the Komagata Maru arrived in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­harbour with 376 passengers from India looking to settle in British Columbia.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: The Battle of Deadman's Island

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: The Battle of Deadman's Island

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . In 1899, industrialist Theodore Ludgate persuaded the Dominion government to lease him Deadman’s Island to build a sawmill.

Queen Alexandra Elementary Class of '86, Vancouver's Centennial year

Did you attend Queen Alexandra Elementary in 1986? Are you pictured in this graduation photo below holding an (AMAZING!) Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­100th anniversary flags? OR, do you know anyone in this photo? They'd be 30-something now, and I bet they'd love to see
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Hunter S Thompson, 1958

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Hunter S Thompson, 1958

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . After reading a Time Magazine article on the new direction of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Sun , a young and still unknown Hunter S. Thompson wrote the paper asking for a job.
Something big is happening next to Pacific Boulevard

Something big is happening next to Pacific Boulevard

If you've been anywhere near Pacific Boulevard or the Georgia viaduct over the past couple of days you may have noticed (in fact there's no way you DIDN'T notice) thousands of pallets on the ground of that chunk of land on the northeast corner of Fal
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Jitneys Vs. Streetcars

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Jitneys Vs. Streetcars

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Jitneys started appearing on the streets of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­and other cities during WWI.

Bing Crosby has (had?) the key to our city!

A friend forwarded this video along to me and I imagine it may have already made the rounds but I couldn't help but share. It's a "Canadian Paramount News" production of a whirlwind day that Bing Crosby did in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­in 1948.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Power Block, ca. 1925

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Power Block, ca. 1925

A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . This recently demolished building went up in 1888 as a saloon for Captain William Power of Port Moody at 819 Granville, just south of Robson.