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The Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club sits on Fir Street between 14th, and 15th Avenue. Well it doesn't so much sit as stand -- as a reminder of the South Granville area's genteel, and monied roots. Both the Lawn Bowling Club, started in 1912, and it's neighbour, the even tonier Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club, situated between 15th, and 16th Avenue since 1914, were built to serve the needs of rich residents of the original Shaughnessy neighbourhood, which starts on the South side of 16th Avenue. Where the lawn tennis folk maintain a busy, year-round schedule of well-to-do doings, the Lawn Bowling Club's schedule seems to consist of about 360 days of slow, and steady lawn care, punctuated by about four summer days where groups of people actually bowl on the meticulously manicured lawn. I'm surely exaggerating -- the groundskeepers must get more than four days off a year.


Just to prove me wrong, here's a club member tossing the little black balls (and one white ball) on a fine fall day. It looks even more sedate in person. I think genteel is the distant ancestor of our modern laid back. Click the images to enlarge them.