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鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Goat on the Lam, 1967

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Goat on the Lam, 1967

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Russell the mountain goat busted out of the zoo and lived wild in Stanley Park for about two years, spending most of his time hanging out on the cliffs out of reach of zoo employees.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Marie Moreau by Jack Lindsay, 1942

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Marie Moreau by Jack Lindsay, 1942

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . This is a photo by Jack Lindsay , one of the top photojournalists during Vancouver's " noir " era, of Sun fashion editor Marie Moreau atop Hudson's Bay Department Store.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Champion of the World (1933-1935)

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Champion of the World (1933-1935)

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Jimmy McLarnin was born in Ireland, but raised at 662 Union Street in Vancouver's East End. “Our street was Union Street, not far from the docks,” he told Maclean’s Magazine in 1950.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: 鶹ýӳAerial, 1951

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: 鶹ýӳAerial, 1951

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . In my routine scouring of the internet in search of old 鶹ýӳphotos, I came across a website filled with some amazing, high quality mid-century aerial shots of BC.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Vancouver's Scariest Resident, 1909 - 1911

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Vancouver's Scariest Resident, 1909 - 1911

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . A young Englishman and aspiring thespian named William Henry Pratt came to 鶹ýӳin 1909 looking for work.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Repatriating Petroglyph Rock

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Repatriating Petroglyph Rock

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Stanley Park has much not-so-awesome history for local First Nations.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Vie's and Viaducts, 1971

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Vie's and Viaducts, 1971

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . The now apparently doomed Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts replaced the old Georgia Viaduct that was built in 1915.

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: The Cellar, 1964

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4TWhYDGJuQ This is an excerpt from an NFB documentary entitled In Search of Innocence about how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Komagata Maru, 1914

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Komagata Maru, 1914

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Ninety-eight years ago today, a Japanese ship named the Komagata Maru arrived in 鶹ýӳharbour with 376 passengers from India looking to settle in British Columbia.
鶹ýӳWas Awesome: The Battle of Deadman's Island

鶹ýӳWas Awesome: The Battle of Deadman's Island

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . In 1899, industrialist Theodore Ludgate persuaded the Dominion government to lease him Deadman’s Island to build a sawmill.
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