Titel: Souvenirfoton?
Skrivet av: Thomas Vikander skrivet 2010-07-18, 03:36
Both photos are taken at the same place, only the angle is different. Most likely it's in Stanley Park which is a City of Vancouver Park administered, as are all parks in Vancouver, by an elected Vancouver Parks Board. So it's not a National Park. The building may be one of the large bath houses/change rooms, existant at the time, at one of the beaches. I'll check this out. The long 'slang' appears to be logs chained end to end. I'm thinking this may have been done to prevent floating wood debris from comming in with the tide and accumulating on the beach. It's possible the photos may have been taken by a soliciting photographer/businessman who would hang around the beaches (or downtown) and ask to be paid for a photo he would later mail to you with whatever you wanted printed on the front side. This was a roaring type of business certainly in the 1940-60's on Granville St. in Vancouver.