TBTPS – Georgia Street, 1924 (broken water main edition)

VPSN — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:02:04 +0000

The broken water main that’s being fixed on Georgia Street was originally installed in 1924. Today’s #TBTPS features a couple of pictures of Georgia from that same year.

Our headline image is of a police parade on Georgia at Hornby. Chief Anderson is leading the march, and you can see the the Law Courts (now Art Gallery) and former Hotel Vancouver in the background.

There’s also this great view down Georgia Street, looking west from Seymour. The Hotel Georgia is in the background, along with the Vancouver Block. The noble looking building at the corner of Granville is the original Birks Building (now London Drugs), and the Strand building next to it is the current location of the Scotia Tower.

Georgia St., looking west from Seymour

The above imagesare courtesy of the Vancouver Archives. More recently, this 2019 City of Vancouver photo shows the broken water main – in pretty much the same spot that the police were having their parade, some 95 years earlier.

Georgia water main break. 2019.

pics via @VanArchives #TBT #publicspace

Georgia gets grand for the Canucks

vancouverpublicspace — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:46:46 +0000

photo by Josh Paterson

The game may not being so well at the moment (the Canucks are down 4-0 at the end of the second) but Georgia Street is alive with people watching game 3 of the Stanley Cup.

At least as far back as the 1927 Bartholomew Plan Georgia Street was initially conceived as a grand ceremonial avenue for the city. It hasn’t often well-utilized in this respect… at least not in recent decades. Tonight’s game is giving us a glimpse of something different – the possibilities that can come with re-purposing our ‘big’ streets for other uses.

Now… time to score a goal!

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TBTPS – Georgia Street, 1924 (broken water main edition)

Georgia gets grand for the Canucks