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  • parking lot, Specious wrote 17 years ago:
    An anonymous user originally marked this spot as "My first cigarette", with this story: === So, I was playing at the Big Band Bash. I think I was about 15 or 16. Anyway, after the show these two chicks came up to me and asked me to pretend to be someone named... hell, I can't remember. Maybe Louie? Good enough. Louie had loaned them his car and it had broken down. They were waiting for CAA, but they needed somebody to stand there and be the owner. CAA wouldn't give them service if the owner wasn't there. some sort of policy I suppose. That the guy had signed up for the service, Not the car. Anyhow, we were standing there waiting and I was being Louie. It took a while. While we were waiting, one of them smoked. I asked too bum one. I'd always liked the smell of cigarette smoke, even when I was very little I remember it fondly. Neither of my parents smoked(officially). I only smelt it walking around downtown with my dad wwhen I was so little I couldn't talk to another grown up. I saw the world through one eye. The other eye concretely fixed to the back of my Dad's leg. I enjoyed it. Had another. Got a ride home. I remember my heart beat a little faster than it should as I was trying to fall asleep.
  • Swallow Court Apartments, Swallow Court Address (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    233 E.12th Ave Vancouver, BC V5T 2H1
  • John Oliver Secondary School, notwhoyouthink (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    great school,well known for a "shady past",no more it has been turned 180 by its new principle.great teachers.
  • Kootenay Loop, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Now 2008, much diminished. Trolley buses have to turn in here, but fewer suburban diesel buses. Most surbuban buses now stop on Hastings and proceed along their route as this loop is no longer their terminus. Was a streetcar loop until April 1957. Had a small coffee shop in the centre from 1940s to 1960s.
  • 7 11, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Closed forever in September 2008
  • Basel Hakka Lutheran Church, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Another Hakka (Fujian Province of China, and overseas populations) church is on Princess Street in Chinatown.
  • Lakeview United Church + Daycare, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Very socially active church
  • Trout Lake, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Park is dredged and the banks are adjusted every few years to prevent eutrophication. It is filled with natural run off but has no outlet. A jet d'eau spray is to keep it aeriated. There have been attempts to add fish to it. Reed islands have been created near the banks to protect the bird population. In summers, a large 'paseo' or promenade occurs on most fine weather nights of the locals walking slowly around the lake. Some times there is model yacht sailing in the north side.
  • Cedar Cottage, the old district, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Is Commercial Street, while the cultural hub is 4 km north and called Commercial Drive. Here Commercial drive diversion lead to Victoria Drive and The (Commercial) Drive ended. Was a street of light industry in the 1950s: bakeries, furniture, car repairs, millwork etc. Rose up in the 1910s as a stop on the Interurban trams with a movie house, apartments shops and such.
  • Dollar Giant, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    Fire in 2007 never recovered. Still closed Nov. 2008. A chain store, site was formerly a Fedco, and Fields store
  • King Edward Village, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    A large condo (self-owned) apmartment complex that may not be evident in Google photo. Completed in September 2008. Includes 16 story tower on corner, branch library, coffee shops and a few stores.
  • TD Canada Trust, eastvanroolz wrote 17 years ago:
    A drive-in or drive-through bank. Formerly Canada Trust, became TD Canada Trust when Toronto-Dominion Bank did a takeover
  • Ocean Cement Plant, Line Noise (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    this is "Ocean Cement" not Lafarge cement
  • The Melville, Arbind (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    this is where i lived once
  • Venue, Dominator (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    Worst club ever!
  • Concord Pacific Place, bandneedsbeer (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    Let's take our tiny dog for a walk and get some sushi before yoga class, shall we?
  • The Waterfall Building, bandneedsbeer (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    Battlestar Galactica miniseries shot here as well (Laura Roslyn's doctor's office)
  • Value Village, stephanepj (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    I was in an Extra Foods (North Road and Lougheed) which had the exact same ceiling inside...
  • John Hendry Park, bio (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    the beach is fake
  • John Hendry Park, snapdragon wrote 17 years ago:
    This is Trout Lake, where my dad swam with his buddies when he was a boy in the 1920s. (They skinny dipped.) In those days the lake was surrounded by trees. In the winter, the lake would freeze over, and everybody went there to skate. I skated there, too, when winters were cold enough, though that was years later. When I was a teen in the late 70s, I swam in Trout Lake as well. But brown clouds of - what, pollution? - would float to the surface if I so much as touched my feet on the bottom. I thought that was icky, and mentioned to my dad that this creeped me out. "You silly kid!" he said, "...that is PEAT on the bottom of the lake, and it has always been that way." Except for where they added the fake sand, that is. The fake sand has not always been there. Just the lake, with its peaty bottom.