Road Trip, Aug 16 2012

Leif Norman

A big walk around Vancouver featuring Granville, Gastown, Chinatown and Canada Place

…and all of the John Fluevog shoe stores we could find.

(all two of them)

Graffiti all over the pay phone; 10th and Granville, Vancouver

 

Cool reflections in the store window, Vancouver, Broadway and Granville. I really like this picture. It’s confusing, familiar, abstract and geometrical. #urban #street #art #photo #Vancouver

 

Granville Loop Park, just south of the Granville Bridge, Vancouver

 

Vancouver gum all over the street, Granville and Nelson. Vogue Theatre in the background

 

The Fluevog shoe store 837 Granville street, Vancouver

 

Park your car. Drive Fluevog

 

I really dig Fluevogs. They are fantastically well designed and well made shoes and boots.

 

 

 

My nice new Fluevog CISL Radio’s in Blue Purple. (from the Fluevog website) “True to his Canadian roots, John broadcasts another hip style in the modern Radio family with the CISL. Named after Vancouver’s soft oldies station broadcasting at 650 AM, CISL is one of Canada’s few remaining music stations on the AM dial. Featuring a modern twist using laser etching on the nostalgic wingtip motif with grosgrain (word score!) piping, an upturned toe, and a tunite heel & sole, The CISL will bring you the smooth, sweet tunes of yesteryear. Tune in, Turn on, and Vog out!”

http://www.fluevog.com/code/?w=family%3ARadios&pp=1&view=detail&p=4&colourID=3378

A piece of Vancouver sidewalk infrastructure covered in student art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. This thingy happens to be by Mark Illing, the nice artist we bought a print from yesterday. “WRAP A student / community project”

 

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Granville and Georgia, Vancouver

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The Vancouver Art Gallery

 

Inside the Historic Vancouver Train Station

 

Stylish bubbly polka dot manhole cover, Vancouver

 

Vancouver’s Gastown

 

The steam clock in Vancouver’s Gastown, Cambie and Water street

 

Information about the Gastown Steam Clock, Vancouver

 

Vancouver’s Steam Clock

 

Information about Vancouver’s Gastown

 

John Fluevog’s main store in Vancouver’s Gastown; where new shoes are born!

 

Nifty Vintage Velocette motrocycle in the Fluevog store. Did you see what I did with the reflection in the mirror there?

 

Rechristened the “Fluevocette” this bike is a unique looker!

 

Vancouver’s Historic Gastown

 

Flatiron style building in Vancouver at the wedgy corners of Alexander, Carall, Powell and Water street

 

One of Vancouver’s notorious and nefarious back alleys. In between Pender and East Hastings from Carrall street

 

Kam Gok Yuen Chinese Restaurant, BBQ Pork and Rice. Yummy!

 

Steamed Gai Lan with Oyster Sauce

 

Kam Gok Yuen, Vancouver’s Chinatown, East Pender Street, between Columbia and Main street. One of my favourite places to eat in Vancouver

 

 

Vancouver’s Historical buildings in Chinatown. Weat Pender and Carrall

 

The Chinatown Supermarket in Vancouver

 

Vancouver’s Chinatown. Keefer and Gore street

 

Winnipeg does not have any busy looking Chinese stores like Vancouver does. (sigh)

 

Cluttered looking store in Vancouver’s Chinatown. I wish I knew how to use half of the stuff in here. Fascinating.

 

Little dried fish for sale in Vancouver’s Chinatown

 

Pender and Carrall. Vancouver’s skinniest building

 

Interesting people on the Vancouver sidewalks

 

 

Wild store at Carrall and Hastings, Vancouver

 

Lots of screaming and shouting and carrying on at Pigeon Park, Vancouver. Carrall and Hastings

 

 

Vancouver street photography

 

Woodward’s Department store, Vancouver, Abbott and West Hastings

 

 

Some MOD fashions and style, Gastown, Vancouver

 

Inside the Smart Mouth Cafe, Vancouver, near Water and Abbott

 

Vancouver’s street artisans

 

 

Vancouver’s Canada Place on the waterfront

 

A seaplane lands on the water in Vancouver harbour. North Vancouver is in the background

 

Gimli Manitoba makes a small appearance in Vancouver on the Canadian Walk

 

 

Vancouver’s City Hall

 

2 thoughts on “Road Trip, Aug 16 2012

  1. I really enjoyed living in Bellingham, WA in the early 1970s and being able to visit Vancouver whenever I wished. Some of the scenes you captured were similar enough to those I loved to make the visit through your eyes and camera pretty cool!

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