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Adele D. Oliver

Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

When Vancouver was Young

A well-known Vancouver image of City Hall ("Rathaus") set up in a tent after the great fire of 1886 ....... found this in a window of the library complete with reflections ( I went back on March 16th and took more pictures as planned).
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I want to thank everybody for your many visits and generous comments - forgive me if I can't find the time to comment on all your great images ......

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Sally Dunn 06/04/2012 10:49
City work and planning still has to continue despite catastrophes! I love looking at old pictures and seeing what the fashions were. What fabulous beards and moustaches they wore then! ;)) Not a hoody or a ripped pair of jeans in sight either!!
Hugs
Sally
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Pierre LAVILLE 05/04/2012 11:44
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Pierre
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Joëlle Millet 03/04/2012 0:25
Encore une jolie composition . Tu tiens un bon filon , comme les chercheurs d'or dans des temps anciens . Amitiés . Joëlle
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MICHAEL stüben 02/04/2012 14:30
City tent....used as city hall. Must be an very interested documentation for your city. GMichael
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Lawson McCulloch 01/04/2012 10:02
A great shot of bygone times.
best wishes from Lawson.
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melkart (pepe jaime) 31/03/2012 18:23
Me encantan las fotos retro y esta es fantástica. Un abrazo
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Claudio Micheli 31/03/2012 17:30
Veramente molto bella.
Ciao
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Jens Hansen 31/03/2012 16:40
an impressive piece of history!!

Best

Jens
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Maria João Arcanjo 31/03/2012 15:56
Vancouver past and present. Great Adele
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Alfred Schultz 31/03/2012 13:48
These gentlemen have had a good sense of photos
in the old, and also difficult times, it seems. -
That has obviously not changed in Vancouver.
Gruesse - A.
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Mark Billiau. 31/03/2012 11:47
It's a very interesting docu shot of the past and the reflections with your self-portrait and red car are a great extra bonus !

Mark
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Dave Murrell 31/03/2012 9:37
Excellent capture bringing old and new technology together

enjoy your week

Dave m
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s. sabine krause 31/03/2012 9:18
GREAT – not only the historical picture but also collage-like combination of the ancient photo with those fragments of modern life in the reflections: they are like "shards of surreality" and add such delightful little twists to it! the lower right corner, for example, is amazing, where the ancient sepia toning suddenly turns into color – a green lawn, a red care whooshing by and an eager contemporary photographer contorting herself/ her self into the perfect position for taking her ancient fellow-citizens' picture! photographic time travels… two more ingeniously weird little details: near the upper right corner of the shot, close to that patch of pale blue, i see a tiny spider(man) falling from the sky! and a little further down a big gray snake is inappropriately wiggling its way (sorry, gotta say it ; ))) out/or into the pants of the poor man to the very right! hugs, sabine.
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Tania Skaradek 31/03/2012 1:54
Perfect way to keep history - to show it for next generations! And it is better to see one time then to hear many times! Thanks, Adele!

Regards
Tania
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BRYAN CRUTE 30/03/2012 23:00
Nice edited picture of these founding fathers

Regards
Bryan

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