Photos captured the West End before the dramatic transformation of the late 1950s and 1960s.
The positive of the cold weather was that it was clear and sunny. So Vancouver Sun photographer
Beside the Englesea Lodge is a one-storey white building built on piles over the water. It once held the Winter Garden dance hall, which was built in 1925 and seems to have been torn down about 1958. This was a separate structure from the oldThe biggest surprise in Filion’s picture is how many houses were still on the waterfront in 1956. The whole northern side of the 2000-block across from the Englesea Lodge was still houses, right beside Stanley Park.
A second Harry Filion photo of the West End waterfront across English Bay from Kits Point, Feb. 14, 1956. A yegg is old-time slang for a burglar or safe-cracker. In this case, “cracksmen used knives and meat cleavers to chop open a safe when nitro-glycerine failed them.” They absconded with $700 from a market at 1400 West Broadway.Another story reported two men had been attacked “by toughs.
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