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WE TOOK another walk
last Sunday but no way
would this one qualify
for our nine-miles-a-week
target.

THE VINTAGE YEARS

This was a walk of a dif-
ferent feather.

More of a gawk.

Our museum, you see, was
offering its contributions to
the city’s current FolkFest, by
repeating the heritage walk
that centres on the harbor

_ area, site of the city’s birth
80-odd years ago.

John Stuart, curator at our
museum, combined forces with
Gary Penway from city hall
(he’s in the development ser-
vices section). John showed us
the past, while Gary teased us
with visions of what the future

: might bring.

* What can we do with what
we have left to show of our
historical origins?

» How.can we handle it so

that it continues both to deco-

‘rate the present and serve it
too? I personally reject the
theme concept, setting it all up
like a frontier town or an
alpine village — we might
make some movie money but

- we still have to live in it.

‘According to John, we have
a singular abundance of origi-

: nal buildings, most of them on
their original sites. This is rare,

"as is the fact that so many of .
them are in current lively use.

|’ Some of them have had little
respect, ‘true, but there are
some reai treasures.

‘Take ‘the sturdy littie B. C
Telephone office on West First
Street, where we used to take
our handful of monthly chits
to argue over the bill. .

: And the domed Barraclough
Building on the corner of Se-
cond Street and Lonsdale
Avenue whose appearance has

, been lovingly tended all. these

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ow our historical

years, and the building cx-
tended with real care and
imagination.

The bank building at the
south east corner of First and
Lonsdale declares without
equivocation its serious pur-
pose, like any other secure
dowager.

On the other hand, the
Coronation Block an West
Esplanade owes its distinction
to its wild free-form architec-
ture. Jts second level seems to
have no relationship what-
soever to its main floor, except
to sit on top of it. A whim,

It was built by the North
Vancouver Land and Im-
provement Co. which original-
ly owned more than half of
what we now define as the Ci-
ty of North Vancouver. It
could, one presumes, afford
whim.

As we zig-zagged down to
the waterfront, about 15 of
us, 4 Special zig invited us to
visit Sue Chalmers’ Victorian
gucst-house on East Second
Street.

We left our shoes on the

porch and tip-toed through the
well-preserved rooms now for
rent 10 tourists.

Each bedroom has an
enormous bathtub ensuite, all
suitably furnished and papered
and curtained to keep the orig-
inal ambience.

Even the garden is stocked
with lovely old-fashioned
flowering plants.

Sue had to give up the se-
cond B in ‘B&B’? — she’s a
working woman — but her
place shows good advice
coupled with lots of elbow
grease,

All Lower Lonsdale's major
players, and others who want
to be involved, are currently
meeting tc solve the area's
problems. The acres and acres
of Versatile Shipyard present
one of the major targets for
development, but action
doesn’t begin and end with the
area’s owners.

The Port of Vancouver, the
City of North Vancouver, the
businesses on both sides of
Lonsdale, the union workers
whose life it was — they all

have to have a say.

Not to mention us: you and
me. It's our town. How much
do we care? What's important
to us? Would revenue from
towering apartments and/or
luxury homes on that water-
front make up for continued
loss of accessibility?

Then there’s transport to

e °
adjust, and bridges and barges
and trains to sort out.

It’s everybody’s business,
and you and I aren’t high on
the priority fist, but we can
think and imagine and suggest
and we have both memories
and dreams,

What would you like to see
happen?

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