Interesting places in South Cambie:

Best Western Uptown Hotel		BC Children s and Women s Hospital
Old Translink bus yard		Shoppers Drug Mart / The Olive Condos

the South Cambie is part of Vancouver .

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Fairmont Training Academy - 1920
Made by Bob_2006
4949 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC. Description of Historic Place: The Fairmont Training Academy, formerly known as the Langara School, is a large, attractive building, in Vancouver's neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights. Designed in the Tudor-Revival style, the building has a ground storey of brick and an upper storey of stucco with half-timbering. It features a prominent entrance and a large flared hip roof articulated by dormer windows, brick chimneys and a bell tower. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building. Heritage Value: The Fairmont Training Academy is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations, and its architectural and environmental value. Historical Value: The Fairmont Training Academy is associated with private school education in British Columbia, and with the role of the Mounted Police in the province. It was an early example of a trend toward the establishment of private British-style schools in the province in the early twentieth century. The property was sold to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920, following the force's jurisdiction to the province and in the 1950s, the Fairmont Training Academy became the RCMP sub-divisional headquarters and served as a training academy. Architectural Value: The Fairmont Training Academy is one of the best examples of architect Samuel Maclure's work. Well-known in Vancouver for his Tudor-Revival residential designs, his first institutional project follows this stylistic theme, reflecting at the same time the simplicity and irregularity of the contemporary Arts and Crafts movement in its selection and use of materials, particularly within the interior. It exhibits very good functional design and high quality craftsmanship. Environmental Value: The Fairmont Training Academy reinforces the character of the park-like residential neighbourhood setting and was designed to embody the refined formality expected of such an institution. Located on the periphery of Vancouver's elite neighbourhood of Shaughnessy Heights, it is a familiar landmark. Sources: James de Jonge, Fairmont Training Academy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Federal Heritage Building Report, 88-168. Fairmont Training Academy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Heritage Character Statement, 88-168. Character-Defining Elements: The character-defining elements of the Fairmont Training Academy should be respected, for example: Its very good aesthetic appearance and functional design, high quality craftsmanship and materials, for example: -The formal massing, symmetrical façade and balanced composition; -The use of design features such as Tudor half timbering, a flared hip roof, prominent doors and windows harmonized by the simple nature of their materials; -The functional orientation of the building which emphasizes its central entrance and directs access to all portions from a central corridor; -The surviving significant interior materials. The manner in which the Fairmont Training Academy reinforces the park-like residential character of the neighbourhood and is a familiar landmark, as evidenced by: -Its Tudor-Revival residential design which reinforces the park-like residential character of its neighbourhood; -Its large scale and location on a large acreage on the periphery of a well-known and prestigious residential neighbourhood which makes it a familiar landmark. Canada's Historic Places


Foley Building - 1909
Made by Bob_2006
696 West 16th Avenue / 3208 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC. Heritage Value: The building at 696 West 16th Avenue, known as the Foley Building, is listed in the “B” category on the Vancouver Heritage Register. This two storey wood frame commercial building has both architectural and historical significance. It was built in 1909 and is a good example of a pioneer vernacular corner store that was common to Vancouver’s older neighbourhoods. It features large display windows adjacent the angled corner entry and decorative woodwork in the cornice. It occupies approximately one third of the site at the most westerly end, at the corner of Heather Street. City of Vancouver Heritage Plaque Program The large 7-Up Olympic Grocery sign identifies this building as a former corner store. Rebuilt in 2005, this 1909 Edwardian building was one of the first commercial buildings erected in the Municipality of Point Grey. The municipality was established in 1908 just south of the City of Vancouver’s southernmost boundary of 16th Avenue. Point Grey and the City of Vancouver amalgamated in 1929. The building was erected in 1909 by J.B. Foley, a local realtor. The corner commercial unit at 698 West 16th was a grocery or confectionery store continuously from 1911 until the mid 1990s. The !rst store was the Samuel Barker & Sons grocery store. This was followed by a string of grocers until 1914 when it became the Heather Market, and then in 1930 the Heather Confectionery. From 1940 to 1965 the Beckett family operated the Heather Confectionery which became Becketts’ Red & White from 1960 to 1970. Once the Beckett family moved from both the residential unit on 16th and the store, the Chow family’s Golden Star Grocery and subsequently the Kim family’s Olympic Grocery carried on the corner store tradition. The original plans for the redevelopment of the building in 2005 involved rehabilitating the original structure, but due to serious structural issues the building was dismantled and as much of the original exterior fabric as possible was re-used. This includes much of the ground storey siding, the dentils and the grocery sign. The new building looks much as the original building did in 1909. The interior of the building is completely new, and presents a good contrast to the completely original Connaught Apartments in Kitsilano (House #9 and #10 on the tour). The completed building ties into the strata developments to the east and south, and retains the grocery store in situ, which today functions as a photography studio. Little is known about the unit at 3208 Heather Street. The address only appears in city records as the James C. Bradley Beauty Parlour and Barber between 1927 and 1939, otherwise it is absent from city records. The original configuration of the building had a four-bedroom, one bathroom residential unit upstairs, accessible from the eastern end of the W 16th Avenue façade, and from an internal ladder in the store. - Vancouver Heritage Foundation


bubbles
Made by soma_slim
While we were there and the world seemed separate from what we thought if as real life and normal circumstances, an abberation, we all took a bad flash sooner or later and usually more than once, like old acid backing up, residual psychotic reaction. Certain rock and roll would come in mixed with rapid fire and men screaming. Sitting over a steak in Saigon once I made nasty meat connections, rot and burning from the winter before Hue. Worst of all, you'd see people walking around whom you'd watched die in aid stations and helicopters. The boy with the huge adams apple and wire-rimmed glasses sitting at a table on the Continental terrace had seemed much more nonchalant as a dead Marine two weeks before at the Rockpile than he did now, wearing the red 1st Division patch, trying to order a Coke from the waiter while a couple of margouilla lizards chased each other up and down the white column behind his head. I thought for a second that I was going to faint when I saw him. After a fast second look I knew that he wasn't a ghost or even a double, there actually wasn't much resemblance at all , but by then my breath was gummed up in my throat and my face was cold and white, shake shake shake. Nothing to worry about boy, Page said. Just your nineteenth nervous breakdown. They were always telling you that you mustn't forget the dead, and they were always telling you that you shouldn't let yourself think about them too much. You couldn't remain effective as a soldier or a reporter if you got all hung up on the dead, fell into patterns of morbid sensitivity, entered perpetual mourning. You'll get used to it, people would say, but I never did, actually it got personal and went the other way. Dispatches (1977) - Michael Herr


Day Eighty Four
Made by VancouverGeek
So today I had planned on going to return some video games but I ended up being too bagged to do so. Instead I just laid around and played them some more. Isobel and I went in to the office to say hello to people and drop off one of our thank you cards (We're working on getting everyone's out don't worry if you haven't gotten yours yet) as well as having our wedding video transfered from a digital file to a disc that can be played in players. I also stopped off at Ricky's to grab their turkey club wrap and feed Isobel lunch out of it. She seemed to enjoy the turkey which isn't surprising, turkey's really good....mmmmm turkey. From downtown I headed out to the Oak Street Blood Clinic to do my duty as a blood donor. Brandi looked a little green at the sight as she still has blood issues but I can't really laugh at her since I felt naseous after donating due to my lack of fluid intake prior to showing up there. Silly me. Brandi drove home which led me to think I'd have the edge on the -buggy game due to the concentrating on the road in front of her but she still kicked my butt. So either she was paying no attention to driving and only looking for buggies or she's better at that game than I am...I suspect it's the later but will say it's gotta be the former. I made pancakes for dinner while Brandi and Isobel watched Confessions of a Shopaholic. Brandi really liked the book and we got it two for twenty along with The Reader...mmmm Kate Winslet.


grate
Made by soma_slim
Anyway, said Grimes, there shan't be any children; I'll see to that. It has always been a mystery to me why people marry, said Mr Prendergast. I can't see the smallest reason for it. Quite happy, normal people. Now I can understand it in Grimes' case. He has everything to gain by the arrangement, but what does Flossie expect to gain? And yet she seems more enthusiastic about it than Grimes. It has been the tragedy of my life that whenever I start thinking about any quite simple subject I invariably feel myself confronted by some flat contradiction of this sort. Have you ever thought about marriage - in the abstract, I mean, of course? Not very much, I'm afraid. I don't believe, said Mr Prendergast, that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed. Don't you agree? I don't think you can be quite right, said Paul, you see, animals fall in love quite a lot don't they? Do they? said Mr Prendergast. I didn't know that. What an extraordinary thing! But then I had a aunt whose cat used to put it's paw up to it's mouth when it yawned. It's wonderful what animals can be taught. There is a sea-lion in the circus, I saw in the newspaper, who juggles with an umbrella and two oranges. Decline And Fall (1928) - Evelyn Waugh


blue light
Made by soma_slim
'Poor Casimir', she said, Why was it that people always got involved in one's life? If only one could manage things on the principle of the railways! Parallel tracks - that was the thing. For a few miles you'd be running at the same speed. There'd be delightful conversation out of the windows; you'd exchange the omelette in your restaurant car for the voul-au-vents in theirs. And when you'd said all there was to say, you'd put on a little more steam, wave your hand, blow a kiss and away you'd go, forging ahead along the smooth, polished rails. But instead of that there were these dreadful accidents; the points were wrongly set, the trains came crashing together; or people jumped on as you were passing through the stations and made a nuisance of themselves and wouldn't allow themselves to be turned off. Poor Casimir! But he irritated her, he was a horrible bore. She ought to have stopped seeing him. Antic Hay (1923), by Aldous Huxley


William H. James House - 1941
Made by Bob_2006
587 West King Edward Street, Vancouver, BC. A cozy English Tudor cottage provided the model for this cute fairy-tale residence, one of three put up by builder Brenton T. Lea. (The others are at 3979 West 9th Avenue, Vancouver, and 885 Braeside Avenue, West Vancouver.) The undulating shingle roof convincingly imitates thatching. This portion of King Edward Avenue (25th Avenue) marks the transition from the historically affluent West Side to the more basic amenities of the East Side. To the west the roadway is divided (with boulevard trees and buried services) and picturesquely curves beyond Granville. To the east the roadway narrows and powerlines replace the publicly planted trees. The different landscapes reflect the respective aspirations and tax bills of the former municipalities of Point Grey and South Vancouver. Discover Vancouver


Heritage House - 1912
Made by Bob_2006
3699 Ash Street, Vancouver, BC. The house at 3699 Ash Street was completed in 1912, by Harold O. Hatt, a contractor, and it is a good example of the Craftsman style. Some of the more notable design features include an unusual roof configuration of a side gable with full length shed dormers, symmetrical composition with a full width front porch, paired porch columns, decorative brackets, some leaded glass windows and exterior cladding of wood shingles and siding. The building is one of a pair of houses, of comparable age and design, which form a special streetscape in the Douglas Park area. It is listed in the B evaluation category on the Vancouver Heritage Register. City of Vancouver Heritage Plaque Program


E. Div. R.C.M. Police Fairmont Barracks. Vancouver B.C. April 28th. 1921.
Made by City of Vancouver Archives
Item Number: PAN N191A Physical Description: 1 photograph: nitrate negative; 20 x 145 cm Date of Creation: 28 Apr. 1921 Scope and Content: Group portrait shows the men on horses in front of the barracks. Photographer: Moore, W.J. Statement of Responsibility: W.J. Moore Photo Private Records #: Add. MSS. 54 Part of Fonds: Major Matthews collection Part of Series: Collected photographs Part of Subseries: W.J. Moore Cirkut negatives Media Note: Cirkut Physical Condition: Tear left lower edge, mirroring throughout. Numbering Note: Photographer's number #632.P. Subject and Geographical Classifications: Police Horses Barracks Panoramic photographs Vancouver (B.C.)


Neighbours Past
Made by Tom Wiebe
Locker number 24, on the left, is our locker in the NICU. Locker number 26, on the right, belonged to a friend who for so many months filled the place with joy. She and her husband are some of the warmest and kindest people we've encountered in our path through life. On Monday, January 17th, their little girl, who had fought so valiantly since August to go home with her wonderful parents found the fight was more than she could take. She was Trajan's neighbour for his first 6 weeks, just across the glass in room 42 and her Mother's easy laugh and warm smile made those first 6 weeks immeasurably more bearable for Lisa and I. Now, the locker beside ours is glaringly, unbelievably, inconceivably...empty.


Imprisoned By Big Petroleum
Made by Tom Wiebe
Can't have a kid roaming the streets who's unable to contribute to global warming so, one of the last steps in the NICU is to ensure that Trajan can comfortably sit in his chair while we burn the very dinosaurs he is sure to grow to love. Nevermind that we almost never use our car and can happily walk to anything we care to or need to see. He passed though so, no worries (unless, of course, you're a dinosaur). No discharge date has been firmly set as of yet but, it looms ever nearer. I bought a book of Faresavers instead of a bus pass this morning.


scale of things
Made by superNova K
in the puzzle called life, one's life can be shattered to pieces by unimaginable number of things. in a moment, things that used to mean a lot become utterly insignificant. today we had to go to children's hospital to check sofia for condition that could be serious but turned out to be completely innocent. in our scale of things, mortgage, marks in school, interestingness of job or choice of movies remained important for us and i am thankful to genes, aliens, organic food, pagan slavic and christian gods and whoever and whatever for that fact.


Canada Lines
Made by Andy Grellmann
Published in the March 2010 issue of ARCADE magazine, used for one of a series of articles detailing the urban infrastructure built for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The article can also be found on the website in black and white: www.arcadejournal.com/public/IssueArticle.aspx?Volume=28&... HDR of the tunnel through which the Canada Line runs. Composed from 3 photos, +/-2EV. Taken at the King Edward Ave and Cambie station


Kamikuma (Spirit Bear)
Made by Joseph Wu Origami
I had previously designed a (low) intermediate bear for a client, and had forgotten about it. Then, a few days ago, I stumbled upon a rough draft of it while cleaning up. Looking at it afresh, especially after it had been partially squished, I realized that it could be made into a 3D design. This new kamikuma is the result. It is a standing bear that is fully closed. The belly and the underside are sealed by separate locks. The paper is lokta, with a starting size of 45 cm square. The final bear stands 23 cm tall.


Pray for Japan
Made by Chun@Vancouver
A massive earth quake hit the Northern Part of Japan just three hours ago. Tsunami has flooded a lot of coastal area. Casualties and damages are are not clear yet but definitely to be suffered. I would like to pray for my friends and the people there for their safety. I wish people will quickly rebuilt their homes lost in this horrible disaster. China seffered great casaulties in a earthquake in Sichuan Province three years ago and got tremendous help and support from countries like Canada and Japan.


Feeding Tube As Metaphor For Fax Machine.
Made by Tom Wiebe
Trajan's gavage (feeding tube) is now as useful to him as the fax machine in most offices. Sure, it's still there but, I'll be damned if it gets used anymore. Especially now that the Occupational Therapists and doctors have upgraded Trajan to 'On demand feeding' this morning. Yep, you read that correctly. The Emperor will no longer be held to an artificial schedule of feeds at 9, 12, 3 etc. Like any other self respecting tinpot dictator, he'll now eat what he wants whenever he damn well pleases.


Fairy Tale House, Vancouver
Made by Uncle Buddha
There's a series of postwar homes along King Edward Avenue between Cambie and Oak that are pretty much all the same - the biggest difference is that some are mirror images of the others. But then there's this one which has the same floorplan as the others but the roof and faux half-timbering really make it stand out. Today's uploads are my first time shooting in RAW. It seems to make the colours pop a little better but I'm worried it's a bit too much.


Tubeless
Made by Tom Wiebe
We're flying without a net now. Oral feedings have gone well enough in the last few days that Trajan's gavage has now been removed. He's still making the monitors beep periodically but, the beeps are fewer and farther between. Getting to be high time for us to decide whether we're going to keep him or not! ;-) (to be perfectly clear, I'm kidding. Especially after the kerfuffle about that kid in the maritimes on craigslist last week...)


The new Middle Class
Made by Tom Wiebe
Vancouver's bizarre real estate market makes for some odd sights. The area around Queen Elizabeth Park is full of primarily modest but nice homes. A solid, middle class neighbourhood of the 40's and 50's. Except nowadays, these modest bungalows sell for north of a million bucks and, instead of the Fords and Chevy's that would've dotted this neighbourhood 30 years ago, it's rife with Porsche's, BMW's and Audi's.


Bamboo
Made by soma_slim
You Were Beyond Comprehension Tonight But I Understood Now If Only I Could Hold Time Words have Failed Me Tonight But You Knew What I Meant You Heard What I Said the Whole Time And I Wrote This Song about It Cuz I Didnt Care About any Worthless Photograph I Wrote This Song just to Remember The Endless, Endless Summer in Your Laugh.... Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Dum Da Da Da Dum Dum Da Hold Time - M. Ward