This Thursday I will be participating on a panel entitled Subcultural Heritage: Emergence of Social Diversity and the Creation of Heritage. This is "Conversation #3" in a series of Shaping Vancouver panels hosted by Heritage Vancouver in partnership with SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
The photo above is of the SBC Restaurant, an indoor skateboarding park/restaurant and the former site of the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret. (Source: Vancouver As It Was.) The photo below was taken in the 1960s by a Province newspaper photographer.
Below is 575 Beatty Street as it was in the late-1960s, when it was home to Intermedia:
There is no 575 Beatty Street today, only attempts at reminding us what stood there:
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