Nostalgia Hit – Vancouver Parks in 1940

Here’s a nice piece to match up with SCARP’s 60th anniversary: what Vancouver Parks looked like in 1940, when the planning school was just getting going …

It’s silent, but it’s in colour – and it’s fascinating, as much for what has stayed the same (even Beaver Lake in Stanley Park was covered in lily pads back then) as for what has changed .  Then there’s incidental shots of the skyline, of Lions Gate Bridge (the traffic! – all three cars of it) and of course of the ethnicity (a few surprises), the fashion and, even without hearing the accents, the British colonial feel of the thing.

Thanks again to Tom Durning.

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