Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/11/2019 at 08:30 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 08:36

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good evening.

Only Vespas... > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 08:51

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What city is this?

Party-vi > Only Vespas... 07/11/2019 at 08:55

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418 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C.

CalzoneGolem > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 09:20

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They look overdressed.

ttyymmnn > Only Vespas... 07/11/2019 at 09:25

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http://theoldmotor.com/?p=109630

ttyymmnn > CalzoneGolem 07/11/2019 at 09:26

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Probably just the salesman or his boss sticking his nose in because he thinks he knows more than the mechanic. Of course, that’s how you dressed on a regular day in 1933. 

facw > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 10:08

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Building was still there in 2017 (even doing something car related):

By 2018 though it was torn down to make room for a new office tower head office for Deloitte :

Which will be this weird stack of cubes:

facw > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 10:10

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Also what sort of weird Chevy dealer has a Ford billboard painted on its side?

fintail > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 10:41

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The brick“Stonehouse” building actually survived until 2017/18 (a Budget car rental lot in its later years) but has since been razed, to be replaced by more bland office towers or maybe faux edgy luxury condos for money launderers/residency purchasers.

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/418-west-georgia-street/

https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/proposal-for-building-with-innovative-design-goes-to-public-hearing-feb-20-1.23173041

ttyymmnn > facw 07/11/2019 at 10:44

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I love classic buildings, but I do not hate that new tower. It’s an interesting design, I’m just not sure it’s in the right place.

Re: old buildings, the elementary school I attended in Norfolk, VA opened in 1917 . By the 1990s, there was push to raze it and build a modern school. When I was there in the late 70s, the school had no air conditioning, it was heated by the original radiators, it was riddled with asbestos, and the classrooms had 20 layers of lead-based paint on the walls. T his being VA, many cried out at the sacrilege of tearing down a “historic” building. There is a difference, however, between a historically significant structure and a dilapidated building. But Virginia is all about the past. The joke goes, “How many Virginians does it take to change a lightbulb? Four—one to change it, and three to talk about how good the old one was.”

Incidentally (or not), the school was (and still is) named after Walter H. Taylor , a Confederate soldier and aide to General Lee, who went on to serve in the VA General Assembly and later as  an attorney for N&W Railway. The school was eventually torn down in 1998 and replaced with a new building that looks very similar to the original.

ttyymmnn > facw 07/11/2019 at 10:47

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Ha, I hadn’t noticed that. There’s a Toyota dealership here in town that used to have a very large billboard from a competitor directly across the street.

ttyymmnn > fintail 07/11/2019 at 10:48

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facw posted some pics of the building before and after it was razed, along with an illustration of the new office tower that will take its place. 

fintail > ttyymmnn 07/11/2019 at 11:02

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D’oh, I missed it.

Really a hideous mess replacing it, too.