Showing posts with label VGH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VGH. Show all posts
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How he rolls. Looks like Hansen's statue is about to run the barricade.[/caption]
As I rode west along 10th Avenue I happened to spy a big hunk of something behind barricades and yellow caution tape in the little parking lot beside the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. It was a very impressive statue of the famous wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen.
This was not a new statue; it had previously been featured on the grounds of Rogers Arena in downtown Vancouver. I had no idea why it was parked here, but here it was in stall 2524.
The larger-than-life size granite sculpture was carved by sculptor Bill Koochin in 1997 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the completion of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion World Tour.
How he rolls. Looks like Hansen's statue is about to run the barricade.[/caption]As I rode west along 10th Avenue I happened to spy a big hunk of something behind barricades and yellow caution tape in the little parking lot beside the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. It was a very impressive statue of the famous wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen.
This was not a new statue; it had previously been featured on the grounds of Rogers Arena in downtown Vancouver. I had no idea why it was parked here, but here it was in stall 2524.
The larger-than-life size granite sculpture was carved by sculptor Bill Koochin in 1997 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the completion of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion World Tour.
The late afternoon sun is playing nice with a building, at Oak Street and 10th Avenue, which is part of the Vancouver General Hospital complex. Click the image to enlarge it.
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Oh look, the circus!? Click the image to see the poorly spliced-together panorama shot.[/caption]
Velofix describes themselves as a mobile bike proshop. I saw their truck-and-pavilion set-up yesterday, parked off Heather Street, on what might have been 14th Street (I think), if it had been marked, except this was within the grounds of the Vancouver General Hospital, where the street plan is trumped by the buildings, which sit wherever they seem to have been dropped.
Velofix looked, to me, to be a mobile bicycle repair shop for an upscale clientèle who can afford the expensive-looking, skinny-tired road bikes I saw them working on. They work by appointment only, so someone booked with them for bike service at that location on the VGH grounds -- quite probably the Suit who is speaking with the mechanic in the photo below. I didn't get a chance to get even a ballpark idea of pricing, but we can guess, right? Click on the images to enlarge them.
Oh look, the circus!? Click the image to see the poorly spliced-together panorama shot.[/caption]Velofix describes themselves as a mobile bike proshop. I saw their truck-and-pavilion set-up yesterday, parked off Heather Street, on what might have been 14th Street (I think), if it had been marked, except this was within the grounds of the Vancouver General Hospital, where the street plan is trumped by the buildings, which sit wherever they seem to have been dropped.
Velofix looked, to me, to be a mobile bicycle repair shop for an upscale clientèle who can afford the expensive-looking, skinny-tired road bikes I saw them working on. They work by appointment only, so someone booked with them for bike service at that location on the VGH grounds -- quite probably the Suit who is speaking with the mechanic in the photo below. I didn't get a chance to get even a ballpark idea of pricing, but we can guess, right? Click on the images to enlarge them.
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