Showing posts with label Cambie Village. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambie Village. Show all posts
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Cambie Street. In the distance things are jumping in Mordor, er, downtown Vancouver.[/caption]
This morning I work up at 8:30 a.m. to the honking -- not of geese or car horns -- but of fog horns -- slow, sonorous sounds; prehistoric; soothing... When I woke up again two hours later the fog horns were still sounding off. Too many just for False Creek I thought. Given the way fog can work on sound I might have been hearing horns from as far away as the Burrard Inlet on the north side of downtown Vancouver.
Cambie Street. In the distance things are jumping in Mordor, er, downtown Vancouver.[/caption]This morning I work up at 8:30 a.m. to the honking -- not of geese or car horns -- but of fog horns -- slow, sonorous sounds; prehistoric; soothing... When I woke up again two hours later the fog horns were still sounding off. Too many just for False Creek I thought. Given the way fog can work on sound I might have been hearing horns from as far away as the Burrard Inlet on the north side of downtown Vancouver.
This blind-sided Mini Cooper was sitting off Cambie yesterday. I know it's only a car, but doesn't that look painful?
I can't stand by and just watch an overly anthropomorphized car suffer!
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A Canadian Tire store. Popular with Canadian consumers and Canadian birds.[/caption]
Here's a Canadian retail institution in one of it's recent "big-box" incarnations at Cambie Street and 7th Avenue.
Canadian Tire used to sell everything men needed for their cars and their workshop. For decades, when a man needed a hand tool, he turned to Canadian Tire's trusted Mastercraft-branded line of tools.
These days the nation-wide chain has expanded their wares considerably; they now sell everything a man needs for his car, his workshop, his kids, his home and his backyard, and his forays into Nature. And, not to make the Tire's business model sound too sexist -- they also have products aimed at housewives.
Canadian Tire had adapted very successfully to a big-box store model. Ninety-one years after the first location opened in Toronto in 1922, it is estimated that 85 to 90% of all Canadians now live within a 15-minute drive of a Canadian Tire store.
A Canadian Tire store. Popular with Canadian consumers and Canadian birds.[/caption]Here's a Canadian retail institution in one of it's recent "big-box" incarnations at Cambie Street and 7th Avenue.
Canadian Tire used to sell everything men needed for their cars and their workshop. For decades, when a man needed a hand tool, he turned to Canadian Tire's trusted Mastercraft-branded line of tools.
These days the nation-wide chain has expanded their wares considerably; they now sell everything a man needs for his car, his workshop, his kids, his home and his backyard, and his forays into Nature. And, not to make the Tire's business model sound too sexist -- they also have products aimed at housewives.
Canadian Tire had adapted very successfully to a big-box store model. Ninety-one years after the first location opened in Toronto in 1922, it is estimated that 85 to 90% of all Canadians now live within a 15-minute drive of a Canadian Tire store.
Just off Cambie Street there's a sight to warm a Prairie boy's heart – the traditional Christmas lights on the tractor.
Why, I can still remember the Christmas when Uncle Elmer got all liquored-up and decided to put the lights on the the Massey Ferguson on a particularly moonless night during a snowstorm. Turned out, not only was corn whiskey a good conductor of electricity but it's effects could render a person insensible to electrocution. That was our "Christmas by candlelight."
You may think there's not a word of truth in that story but remember, Prairie folks do not lie, at least not about the weather – it really was snowing. Click the image to enlarge it.
We've seen this tractor before ►
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Home ownership is becoming a bit of a bad dream in Vancouver.[/caption]
Above is a photo of what could be a factory module dropped from low Earth orbit onto a lot off the south side of King Edward Avenue on Yukon Street. It doesn't look like it but this is actually a brand new home. At first, I thought it was a so-called "lane home," a small detached rental unit that Vancouver home owners have been allowed to put on their properties since 2009. But it's on it's own little lot, and not a lot of lot at that.
Home ownership is becoming a bit of a bad dream in Vancouver.[/caption]Above is a photo of what could be a factory module dropped from low Earth orbit onto a lot off the south side of King Edward Avenue on Yukon Street. It doesn't look like it but this is actually a brand new home. At first, I thought it was a so-called "lane home," a small detached rental unit that Vancouver home owners have been allowed to put on their properties since 2009. But it's on it's own little lot, and not a lot of lot at that.
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