{"id":2793,"date":"2020-10-13T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2020-11-18T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T04:50:47","slug":"vancouver-back-in-the-day-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Back in the Day Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the ever-growing forest of towers and townhouses slowly engulfing the city, there are still a few buildings here and there that have survived the wrecking ball. I’ve spent these last few months of solitary confinement combing through Vancouver’s photo archives looking for some evidence that Vancouver actually did have an architectural past. Not a glorious, castles-and-chateaus kind of past like some places, but a good solid century of civilization.<\/p>\n

I have found quite a few buildings and landmarks that are still recognizable today, and have lined them up with a current photograph from the same location. At least I’ve tried to. It’s hard to accurately replicate the location, height, and focal length of the original shot, so in many cases the perspectives are a little off. One thing I’ve noticed: there are a hell of a lot more trees now than there were then, and they get in the way of a lot of my shots!<\/p>\n

Here are a few, and I will continue adding more as long as I’m allowed outside. (If you didn’t figure it out already, you can use the slider to swipe between the old and new images.) My thanks to the City of Vancouver Archives, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, and a number of blogs that have chronicled the history of these structures much better than I have.<\/p>\n