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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Expo '86 and False Creek

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Expo '86 and False Creek

( Animated GIF above from a great resource on Expo '86 memories: Bobbea.com ) Tonight there's a quarter century lookback party for Expo '86 , which opened on May 2, 1986, and ran to October 13. For B.C.

It's Expo 86 week!

A couple of years back the City Of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­released an informative 6 minute piece about Expo 86, offering some history as well as insight from a city planner and ol' Jimmy P.
Guess who I met today?

Guess who I met today?

Double E! Full report and photos coming soon.
V.I.A. Weekly Nardwuar – Week 24 Nardwuar vs. The Olympics #van2010

V.I.A. Weekly Nardwuar – Week 24 Nardwuar vs. The Olympics #van2010

One year ago during the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, I was sent out by Presentation House 's Candahar Bar with a video camera to capture what I saw.
Olympic pin traders

Olympic pin traders

Do you know anybody who's crazy about collecting Olympic pins or just pins in general? It seems like there's a lot of those people around here lately.
Petroglyph at MOV

Petroglyph at MOV

I don't know how many times I've looked at this rock through the window on the bottom floor of MOV and not realized that it's a petroglyph and that the writing on it is hundreds of years old.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ on 100.5 The Peak: Expo 86 crap on Ebay and Craigslist and 40 years of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Canucks

Every Sunday at noon and 6PM 100.5 The Peak plays a feature that we record with them called Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­! Here's the one from this week about Expo 86 crap on Ebay and Craigslist and 40 years of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Canucks... 100.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Where it all began

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Was Awesome: Where it all began

If you've not yet heard the news ( of course you have ), Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­is turning 125 this year.
V.I.A. Weekly Nardwuar – Week 20 Nardwuar vs. Ben Gibbard in an Expo 86 toque!

V.I.A. Weekly Nardwuar – Week 20 Nardwuar vs. Ben Gibbard in an Expo 86 toque!

This is Bob K stepping in to introduce Nardwuar's video this week! If you watched his INTERVIEW WITH FLEA from 1991 that he shared last Friday you may have noticed he was wearing a sweet Expo 86 toque in it.
True Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Story #6 – Hotdoggin’ it at EXPO 86

True Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Story #6 – Hotdoggin’ it at EXPO 86

Did you know that Expo 86 housed the biggest food production centre ever created for a world's fair, and that they sold over 2 million hot dogs during it? Allen Garr (the same Allen Garr who is now a BEEKEEPER that we featured recently) presented a s