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03-05-2011, 01:33 AM
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#1 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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| Vancouver in the early 1900s
Hey guys i'm not sure if this was posted before but let me know if it's a repost!
It's a lot of pictures of Vancouver way back in the early 1900s http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouver-archives/
The thumbnails do not do any of these pictures any justice. You've got to right click and view all sizes and click one of the larger ones. They're pretty awesome.
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03-05-2011, 02:18 AM
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thanks for this. 
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03-05-2011, 02:26 AM
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Interesting to see how it looked then. =]
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03-05-2011, 09:29 AM
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03-05-2011, 10:38 AM
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#5 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Vancouver was awesome back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Then someone thought it would be great to hold a world expo to show off the city. Been going down hill since. Should have kept this part of the world a secret.
Someone should have spread a rumour that Richmond is not the eye of a dragon, but the penis of the devil. Could we have promoted Calgary better?
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03-05-2011, 04:50 PM
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Then our RS population would be down by 90%
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03-05-2011, 05:14 PM
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land was so cheap back then.
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03-05-2011, 05:19 PM
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#8 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Originally Posted by flagella  Then our RS population would be down by 90% | No Jing Wu's and the like............. now wouldn't that be sad?
Those racist gangstas in Richmond won't have any messages to spray. They may have to find something else to do. No C-Lai's, too. Life would be hella boring.............
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03-05-2011, 06:04 PM
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#9 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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03-05-2011, 06:18 PM
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#10 | | Banned (ABWS)
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03-05-2011, 07:04 PM
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#11 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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kinda sad to see how some of those buildings are just sitting there doing nothing
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03-05-2011, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 89blkcivic Vancouver was awesome back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Then someone thought it would be great to hold a world expo to show off the city. Been going down hill since. Should have kept this part of the world a secret.
Someone should have spread a rumour that Richmond is not the eye of a dragon, but the penis of the devil. Could we have promoted Calgary better? | Vancouver easily ranks as the best place in the WORLD, and if it isn't one year, it always in the top 10
I live in Calgary, and I would never be able to compare it to home...plus you have any idea how cold it gets here? You guys get severe weather warnings at like -10 with windchill lol....Calgary will get -30, and then add the windchill factor - you don't want to know! It was the coldest place on the PLANET for one day this winter. It's -21 as I type this. No way anyone would want to promote a place like this, it's a frozen wasteland in the winter
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03-05-2011, 10:57 PM
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#13 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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It's a dry cold up there though. Gear up and it isn't so cold...
for 30-60 minutes. then the balls will start freezing.
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03-05-2011, 11:11 PM
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Humidity means nothing when there's windchill and it's already 20 or 30 below, it's absolutely brutal
Back on topic though, I had a laugh looking at the picture of the Vancouver Police force back in the day. They should do a side by side comparison to today lol, the firepower the modern police force brings is devastating, they're so much more beefed up now
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03-05-2011, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 89blkcivic Vancouver was awesome back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Then someone thought it would be great to hold a world expo to show off the city. Been going down hill since. Should have kept this part of the world a secret. | HEAR, HEAR!!! Also those assholes who thought having the Olympics in the city would be a good idea should be sent to rural Nunavut. Quote:
Originally Posted by flagella Then our RS population would be down by 90% | LOL
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03-05-2011, 11:46 PM
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#16 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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[insert joke about chinese population increase since then]
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03-06-2011, 12:25 AM
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More importantly, in the 40s-70s, when we needed to build a bridge, the mutherfucker got BUILT. There wasn't a million whiny bitches complaining about this or that.
Now we need to jump through flaming hoops made of kryptonite just to ask permission to talk about building a bridge or widening a road, and when we finally agree to build it, it costs 200x more than it should, and then some loser cancels the whole idea and decides to build a bike lane instead.
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03-06-2011, 07:51 AM
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^ Hahahah +1
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03-09-2011, 10:58 AM
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#19 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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| City of Vancouver Photo Archive: Vancouver in 1900
Granville St and 37th Ave, 1919 
Burrard Inlet looking west from Second Narrows/north Burnaby, 1923 
Full Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouver-archives/
EDIT: Sorry, hombres: this was a repost.
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03-09-2011, 11:30 AM
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#20 | | Welcome to Planet Power ///M
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pardon my ignorance but isn't there a huge ass hill on granville/37? based on the location of the mountains, it looks like the horizontal road going across the picture is granville st, yet the terrain looks completely flat.
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03-09-2011, 11:52 AM
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#21 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Haha good point, I have no idea. Photo description doesn't give anything away either: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouv...es/5456675439/ | |
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