22 — Sunday, August 9, 1992 - North Shore News Tours offered for people feeling out of touch IT COMES home to me every once in a while, shocking how insular I’m_ getting to be. Maybe it’s not having my car any more, mak- ing me more of a stick-in-the-mud. Or, perish forfend, maybe I’ve taken old age too seriously, and have let myself believe that there are things I can’t do now. Whatever the reason, I don’t like finding out I’m really out of touch with the city. I’ve heard people say that they just never go over to town any more, that they shop on this side and visit on this side all the time, now. They sound awfully smug, and now [ have to turn the adjective on to myself. Couple of weeks ago, Meeting my daughter for lunch in the art gallery, I was really discombobulated by the crush of people, by the layers of chat, by the stuff they were choosing to eat. I was swirled around; it felt like New York; I felt like a hick. Out on the street, looking around at the soaring build- ings, I wondered when and how some of them had got there? I’ve never seen that tower before! When did they put that up? . I made a little private vow to get acquainted with what’s going on, to see more of the changes and to keep up with this busy throbbing centre from which so many of our . benefits flow and which we; laid back against the moun- tains, loftily dismiss as crowded and dangerous and dirty and noisy. Resolve made and scarce- ly jelled, there was a tag at the end of one of Robin Ward?s architectural essays noting that three times a week an expert will guide one around a selection of downtown buildings that have made the city what it is. Some have been reincar- nated; some still serve their original purpose in z00d order; some are new, but sited on history. The excursion as offered MBA Eleanor Godiey trucks and inconvenient crowds and cross-walks. He guides his group through all the styles that have influenced the construction as well as the decoration of places like the Leckie Building and the original Cloth Hall, now Le Magazin, and the original Hudson’s Bay store across from it. And while you learn from Peter you are seeing attractive shops and cul-de-sacs and tea-rooms and arcades you weren’t aware of and which you’d like to return to for another look. As an architecture student § he’s got his biases, natural- THE VINTAGE YEARS is easy (as in physical), free, and on foot, of course, so you can touch and peer. Gives you a chance to take the SeaBus always a pieasure — and then to join Peter the leader and some other pilgrims for an ex- plore of three different parts of downtown. We chose Hastings Street for the first day — still to go are the Gastown eastward trip, and the Bur- rard corridor. Make sure you’re at the gathering point shortly before 2 p.m., and wear something suitable for gawking, along with your most comfortable shoes. You’fl be given an an- netated map of what’s what architecturally. Peter Bodnarus, the do- cent, is an architecture stu- dent at UBC, and he’s in- formed, weil-versed, and keen. He’ll open your eyes to details of style and period and teach you to at- tribute influences from the ancients as well as the mod- erns. 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Show up a few minutes before 2 p.m., you'll find 44 Out on the street, looking around at the soaring buildings, I wondered when and how some of them had got there. 99 the trendy blank concrete spaces around the Trade and Convention Centre, say, and the new one across from the Marine Building. He calls them ‘‘corporate lunchrooms’’ because, as he says, they only come to life in the noon hour. He makes you think, too, about the city as a living, breathing entity. He wants you to think seriously about the essence of the city’s success, about how it needs people to vitalize it, how putting malls underground defeats this need, how D.O.H.C.- 1.9 lire engine, 5 spd. Ro A ae de chess whole lot of fun. Peter Bodnarus at the en- trance to 103-131. Water Street. Monday and Friday you can do Gastown East, which includes Pender and Carrall Streets; Tuesday and Thursday, the Hastings Street tour, the longest; and Wednesday is spent on the Burrard corridor, and in- cludes Robson Square. 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