What Vancouver looked like in the 1980s Through These Fascinating Photos

#1 Looking east from 1200 block of West Broadway in Vancouver, 1982

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#2 Entrance to Granville Island, under the Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1984

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#3 Ferguson Point Teahouse in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1984

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#4 Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, 1986

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#5 Free Long John Baldry concert on Water Street in Gastown, Vancouver, 1986

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#6 The white wall of Eaton’s Department Store is seen behind the Vancouver Art Gallery / Courthouse Plaza from West Georgia Street.

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#7 View north from Little Mountain in Queen Elizabeth Park looking toward downtown and the North Shore mountains, Vancouver, 1984

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#8 Bill Reid’s Haida killer whale bronze statue in front of entrance to the Vancouver Public Aquarium, Vancouver, 1987

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#9 Peace March gathered at Sunset Beach in Vancouver, 1987

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#10 PR railway trestle and the Burrard Street bridge as seen from Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1980

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#11 The Dominion Building on east side of downtown Vancouver as seen from VVI/VCC college in early 1986. Victory Square and Hastings Street are in the foreground

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#12 Truck with Christian religious signs parked near the entrance to Stanley Park at Denman and Georgia Streets, Vancouver, 1987

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#13 Wooden Roller Coaster, Vancouver, 1986

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#14 View of downtown Vancouver during Expo86..

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#15 View west from apartment on Barclay Street, Vancouver, 1983

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#16 A J Convenience grocery store on southeast corner of Main Street and East 49th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

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#17 Italian grocery and Main Ford Grocery store on Main Street (just south of Keefer Street), Vancouver, 1984

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#18 Wreck Beach at mouth of Fraser River in Vancouver, 1986

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#19 Granville Island Market & Bridges, Vancouver 1980

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#20 Downtown Vancouver as seen in the morning from First Avenue looking across Clark Drive and Grandview Viaduct in East Vancouver, 1982

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#21 Peace March, Sunset Beach, Vancouver, 1982.

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#22 Toor Spices & Foods Ltd., a grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#23 B&A Grocery store at 4172 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#24 Fortune Grocery store on Main Street near 49th, Vancouver, 1984

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#25 Dunsmuir Street at Seymour Street looking west, Vancouver, 1986

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#26 New condos on Pacific Avenue in Vancouver, 1986

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#27 Vancouver Nissan shipload car sale at Ballantyne Pier in Vancouver, 1987

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#28 Broadway & Heather, Vancouver, 1983

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#29 Park Theatre, Cambie Street, Vancouver, 1986

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#30 Robson & Thurlow

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#31 Expo in Vancouver, 1986.

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#32 New Years Day annual Polar Bear Swim, Vancouver 1982

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#33 Whitecaps NASL Soccer, BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, 1983

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#34 Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Charles visit the Expo 86 World’s Fair in Vancouver during a visit to Canada, May 1986.

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#35 Flying Karamazov Brothers at Vancouver Folk Festival in Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, 1982

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#36 Grocery store at 8105 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#37 Wreck Beach at mouth of Fraser River in Vancouver, 1984

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#38 CPR railway grain cars on the waterfront in East Vancouver as seen in early morning from Second Narrows Bridge. They are waiting besides the grain terminals in Vancouver, 1986

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#39 Georgia Street entrance to Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1986

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#40 View east on Dunsmuir Street in downtown Vancouver, 1986

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#41 Captain Cook Tug Passes Granville Island, Vancouver, 1985

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#42 Peace Under Burrard Bridge, Vancouver, 1985

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#43 Granville Bridge.

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#44 View of downtown Vancouver during Expo86..

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#45 Vancouver Aquarium Orca Pool, 1980

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#46 Bayshore Inn Kitchen Staff, Vancouver, 1980

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#47 Kits Point Marina, Coast Guard & Park, Vancouver, 1982

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#48 India Super Market grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#49 Below the seawall at low-tide east of Lions Gate Bridge in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1986

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#50 Looking east on Hastings Street at Cambie in downtown Vancouver, 1986

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#51 Sunset Beach and Burrard Street Bridge over False Creek in Vancouver, 1986

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#52 Vancouver’s Robson Public Market on Robson Street on snowy day, 1986

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#53 Under Burrard Bridge, Vancouver, 1985

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#54 Robson & Bute, Vancouver, 1984

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#55 Construction of New Cambie Bridge, Vancouver, 1986

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#56 Granville.

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#57 Hamilton at Davie in Yaletown.

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#58 Frank Ney at Vancouver end of Bathtub Race, Kits Beach 1981

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#59 Vancouver marathon on Beach Avenue and the south end of English Bay Beach are seen in this view from a Burnaby Street apartment, Vancouver, 1982.

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#60 Looking east from 1200 block of West Broadway in Vancouver, 1982.

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Scene includes my Yahaha 400 motorcycle, Plimley Dodge Chrysler Plymouth New & Used Cars and the big BowMac sign. That BowMac sign was famous as being the biggest neon sign in Canada. It is now used to advertise a Toys 'R Us store.

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#61 Chinese grocery stores on Main Street (just south of Keefer Street), Vancouver, 1984

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#62 KenMart grocery store on Main Street at 29th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

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#63 Windsor Packing Company at 4110 Main Street near King Edward, Vancouver, 1984

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#64 Workman putting up banners on Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver for the city’s 100th Birthday, 1986

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#65 500 Block Beatty Street (rear view), Vancouver, 1983

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#66 Hostel, Jericho, Vancouver, 1985

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#67 Law Courts (rear) & Nelson Square Tower, Vancouver, 1983

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#68 Cherry Tree Jesus, Vancouver, 1983

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#69 Western view of Terminal Ave, before the SkyTrain line. 3011.

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#70 Granville Island Bridges View, Vancouver, 1980.

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#71 Vancouver arrival of Nanaimo Bathtub Race, Kitsilano, 1981

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#72 View of marathon run on Beach Avenue seen from a Burnaby Street apartment, Vancouver 1982.

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#73 Main Market grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#74 Inside the Robson Public Market on Robson Street in Vancouver, 1986

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#75 The Lovers, Vancouver City Hall, 1983

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#76 Condemned Orillia Building, Robson & Seymour, 1985

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#77 Robson Square, 1984

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#78 Ambassador Hotel, Robson & Seymour, Vancouver, 1983

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#79 Granville Dunsmuir north

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#80 Robson at Hamilton.

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#81 Coal Harbour view of Vancouver’s West End 1983.

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Coal Harbour with marinas, boats, a seaplane and some apartment, office and hotel buildings. Seen from Stanley Park looking south towards Jervis Street in Vancouver, BC in 1983.At that time the CPR railway freight tracks still ran all the way to Cardero Street.In the early seventies, the area from here to Stanley Park was mainly old boat workshops and storage yards.

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#82 Wong’s Market on Main Street, Vancouver 1984.

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#83 Eaton’s “Marshmallow” Building, Vancouver, 1984

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#84 Industry, False Creek, 1984

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#85 GM Pavilion, Expo 86 Site, Vancouver, 1985

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#86 Georgia at Granville.

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#87 Sweet Cherubim Natural Food Bakery on Main Street, Vancouver in 1984.

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#88 View of back laneway parking and apartment building lawn as seen from Burnaby Street apartment, Vancouver, 1982

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#89 Grocery stores on Main Street near 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

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#90 Robin Hood Farms Ltd Freezer Meats store at 2710 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#91 Shirley’s Bakery on Main Street about 48th Avenue, Vancouver, 1984

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#92 Bank of Montreal Building, Main and Prior, Vancouver, 1984

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#93 The Gray Block, Homer & Davie, 1985

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#94 Construction of New Cambie Bridge, Vancouver, 1986

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#95 Main Street SkyTrain station under construction.

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#96 View south from walkway at north end of Granville Street Bridge, looking across False Creek to Granville Island and Kitsilano.

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#97 Lord Roberts Elementary school in Vancouver, 1982

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#98 Vancouver, Main Street Italian and Chinese Grocery Stores 1984.

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#99 Chinese Grocery on Main Street near Keefer, Vancouver 1984.

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#100 Vancouver entrance to Granville Island 1984

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#101 East on Hastings Street, Downtown Vancouver, 1986

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#102 Lindsay Wagner Movie, Pender Street, Vancouver, 1986

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#103 Vancouver’s magnificent Stanley Park, 1980s

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#104 Vancouver, 1980s

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#105 All India Food Centre grocery store on 6622 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#106 Fearn’s Food Market, a Lucky Dollar Foods grocery store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#107 Passing Trolley Bus, W. 10th Avenue, Vancouver, 1985

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#108 Pacific Hotel, Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#109 Cambie Bridge under construction.

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#110 Bowen Island Coast, Howe Sound, 1980

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Beach at Bowen Island, BC in 1980 with view across Howe Sound to the entrance to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. The Bowen Island ferry is coming across the channel and there is a heron fishing along the low-tide shoreline

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#111 Vancouver from Second Narrows Bridge, 1981.

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#112 All India Food Centre at 6622 Main Street, Vancouver in 1984

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#113 AJ Convenience Store on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#114 Shirley’s Bakery, Vancouver, 48th & Main in 1984.

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#115 India Super Market, Vancouver, Main Street in 1984

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#116 Beefway Meats and R.K. Foods on Main Street, Vancouver in 1984.

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#117 Vancouver, Main Street Grocery Stores in 1984.

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#118 KenMart Groceries at 29th & Main Street, Vancouver in 1984.

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#119 Fortune Grocery and RPM Records on Main Street, Vancouver 1984.

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#120 B&A Grocery Store on Main Street, Vancouver in 1984

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#121 Windsor Packing at 4110 Main Street, Vancouver 1984.

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#122 Bing Grocery, 17th and Main Street, Vancouver 1984

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#123 Main Street Overpass Construction, Vancouver 1984.

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#124 Dominion Building and Harbour Snow, Vancouver, 1986

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#125 Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver Centennial, 1986.

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#126 Pacific Avenue House Condos, Vancouver, 1986

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#127 Peace March, Cambie Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1986

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#128 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, 1986

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#129 Granville Street Bridge, False Creek, Vancouver, 1989

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#130 Georgia Medical-Dental Building Demolition Preparation, Vancouver, 1989.

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#131 West Georgia Street Gallery Plaza, Downtown Vancouver, 1984.

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#132 Hornby Street view of Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, 1984.

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#133 Produce Groceries at 8105 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984.

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#134 The journey aboard the Canadian transcontinental train which connects Toronto to Vancouver, 1985

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#135 Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1987

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#136 Lombard St. closed to film a car stunt for the third Perry mason tv movie, Vancouver, 1980s

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#137 The Last Dream Trains, 1985

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#138 Illuminated buildings at night reflecting off the surface of the Fraser River

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#139 Operation of one of the newest of domed stadia, Vancouver, 1980s

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#140 Vancouver – Expo 1986.

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#141 Suburban Market at 7295 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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The streets were wet with summer rain.I also photographed this same location in 2006 and 2014. This location is now Michael's Discount Foods.

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#142 Marina Grocery at 7007 Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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Signs advertise Pepsi, Coca-Cola, soft drinks and ice cream. There is a BC Tel phone booth on the corner.This store was later replaced by a couple of houses.This is just after a rain storm.

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#143 Main Street Food Centre, Hitachi and Sarees, Vancouver, 1984.

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#144 J&B Foods on Main Street, Vancouver in 1984

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#145 Freezer Meats & Launder-All on Main Street, Vancouver in 1984

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#146 Main Street, Construction Lunch Break, Vancouver 1984

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#147 View towards Vancouver Downtown from West End, 1988

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Looking north-east from the roof toward downtown. Bentall Centre, Harbour Centre and Royal Centre are all visible past the nearby apartment buildings.

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#148 Apartments with Construction Crane in Vancouver’s West End 1988

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#149 Alexandra Park Bandstand, Vancouver, 1988.

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#150 False Creek Barge Sphinx after Expo 86, Vancouver, 1989

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#151 Condo Construction with Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver, 1989.

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#152 Under Granville St. Bridge to False Creek Marina, Vancouver, 1989

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#153 Georgia Medical-Dental Building Demolition, Vancouver, 1989.

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#154 Medical-Dental Controlled Explosion Demolition Crowd, Vancouver, 1989

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#155 Georgia Medical-Dental Building Demolition Dust Cloud, Vancouver, 1989.

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#156 West End from Barclay Street, Vancouver, 1983

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#157 Barclay Street View, Vancouver’s West End, 1983

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#158 Park Place Plaza on Burrard Street, Downtown Vancouver, 1984

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#159 Fearn’s Food Market on Main Street, Vancouver, 1984

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#160 CN, Churchil, 1980s

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#161 Orel Hirshiser, foreground, looks on anxiously, 1982

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#162 Vancouver, 1985

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#163 The journey aboard the Canadian transcontinental train that connects Toronto to Vancouver, 1985

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#164 The journey aboard the Canadian transcontinental train which connects Toronto to Vancouver, 1985

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#165 The Last Dream Trains, 1985

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#166 The journey aboard the Canadian transcontinental train which connects Toronto to Vancouver, 1985

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#167 Bird’s eye view of a business district

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#168 Vancouver traders shuddered a week ago today, 1980s

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#169 Vancouver, 1980s

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#170 Vancouver – Expo 1986.

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#171 Vancouver, British Columbia, 1980s

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#172 Vancouver, Expo, 1986.

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#173 Canada Place, Vancouver, 1980s

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#174 Rangers & Canucks Action

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#175 Children play on brightly colored playground equipment that sprays water at the 1986 World’s Fair in Vancouver.

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#176 Eastern gate of Canadian World’s Fair, Expo 1986.

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#177 Monorail swooping past Swiss exhibit at Expo 1986 World Fair.

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#178 Vancouver, Canada, host of Canadian World, 1986

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#179 Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1980s

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