WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT PASSES AWAY

Frank

ONCE UPON a time, there was a handsome, happy and
very kind gentleman who was generous beyond measure to
those who needed his love, his assistance or his money.

He dressed nattily, he served his
community well, moved in all of
the hospitality circles, had many,
many friends, owned several fine
establishments, as well as a
beautiful yacht named EI Citta.

And on the galley apron of the
skipper of the ship was the follow-
ing message:

“*], Sovereign of the Succulent
Steak, Overseer of the Oven,
Viceroy of the Victuals, Emperor
of the Embers, Lord High Host,
and Boss of the Barbecue, do
hereby declare that the name of the
game is Happiness... so enjoy it!
You'll never have a sooner
chance!””

That’s exactly the kind of motto
that the one and only Frank Baker
had been promoting almost from
the day he was born in Vancouver
in 1922.

Frank died of pancreatic cancer
last Tuesday afternoon. His wife,
Dorothy, and their two daughters
were with him at his bedside in the
Palliative Care Ward in St. Paul's
Hospital.

As a young man, he attended
King Ed, along with people like
CKNW’s Jack Cullen, the jazz
world’s Bob Smith and the Sun’s
Jack Wasserman.

That’s where he began his
musical career, playing trumpet.
He met his lifelong friend, Jim
Pattison, when they were both
playing at the Foursquare Taber-
nacle, and he and his trumpet
toured with Amy Semple McPher-
son and her Pentecostal troupe
while she was travelling
throughout the province many
years ago.

He began his business career as a
caterer, mainly because he’d had
so many dreadful meals during his
musical gigs.

So he opened his own Spring
Gardens Catering operation on
Granville, and shortly after joined

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hotelier Frank Bernard at the new
Georgian Towers.

Frank ran the two hotel restau-
rants, the Top of the Towers and
the Colonial House.

He'd always been one of the ci-
ty’s and the province's extraor-
dinary tourist-boosters, whether in
Vancouver or in Hawaii, where he
was just as familiar a sight in his
all-white outfit, straw boater and
diamond-studded trumpet.

It was during this time that he
served as a Vancouver City alder-
man from 1956 to 1962, and
worked on every city promotion,
whether on the Grey Cup commit-
tee, the restaurant reform semi-
nars, or the tourism board.

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Always eager for something new
and challenging, Frank then cross-
ed the bridge and bought Capilano
Gardens from North Shore
businessman George Thompson,
which, after a time, became the
unique and rather nostalgic Attic
Restaurant.

This was the famous restaurant
where the waitresses wore hoop-
skirts and picture hats, and Dix-
ieland musician Lance Harrison
played nightly for almost 11 years,

and everybody and their minister ©

dined on the Sunday night $3.98
buffet dinners.

But after a series of financial
downswings, he lost the Attic and
his bankroll and returned to Van-
couver to open the much smaller
Frank Baker’s on Cambie.

While he had great plans to buy
the old Quarry House Restaurant
in Queen Elizabeth Park, it all fell
apart when he couldn’t get his fi-
nancing together. This was a

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