My apartment and neighbourhood, as seen from space

My apartment and neighbourhood, as seen from space

Old photo, as the old Safeway and crackhouses (see notes) can attest.

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Submitted by deleted on Tue 2005-04-05 09:51 #

Ooh, rich people can live in former crack houses next to porn shops? How glamourous!

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Tue 2005-04-05 20:41 #

There used to be a nudie bar just west (i.e. to the left) of the area photographed, but they closed it down and replaced it with...a liquor store.

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Tue 2005-04-05 21:21 #

Looks like Matt had the idea to annotate his (old) neighbourhood before I did. Another case of great minds think simultaneously I guess.

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sillygwailo added a note: public library

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sillygwailo added a note: workout gym and swimming pool

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sillygwailo added a note: Safeway grocery store, pre-demolition. There is currently a new, bigger one with underground parking at this location.

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sillygwailo added a note: old high school, now adminstrative/volunteer centre with basketball gym

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sillygwailo added a note: elementary school with gravel field

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sillygwailo added a note: porn store and dim sum restaurants (two separate businesses!) at street-level; five-pin bowling alley on the second floor

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sillygwailo added a note: convenience store

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sillygwailo added a note: convenience store

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sillygwailo added a note: convenience store

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sillygwailo added a note: liquor store

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sillygwailo added a note: still-undeveloped property

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sillygwailo added a note: still-undeveloped property

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sillygwailo added a note: crackhouses, now demolished to make way for rich-people's condos