History

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . Ninety-seven years ago this week, Vancouver got its first taste of jazz music.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . The Retinal Circus was a divey rock club at 1024 Davie Street that opened in the summer of 1967.

A Vancouver time travelogue brought to you by Past Tense .

This year, the DOXA documentary film festival really connected with the archival community in B.C. and Vancouver, and to the filmmakers that recorded rare moments in time.

( Animated GIF above from a great resource on Expo '86 memories: Bobbea.com ) Tonight there's a quarter century lookback party for Expo '86 , which opened on May 2, 1986, and ran to October 13. For B.C.

A couple of years back the City Of Vancouver released an informative 6 minute piece about Expo 86, offering some history as well as insight from a city planner and ol' Jimmy P.

Double E! Full report and photos coming soon.

One year ago during the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, I was sent out by Presentation House 's Candahar Bar with a video camera to capture what I saw.

Do you know anybody who's crazy about collecting Olympic pins or just pins in general? It seems like there's a lot of those people around here lately.

I don't know how many times I've looked at this rock through the window on the bottom floor of MOV and not realized that it's a petroglyph and that the writing on it is hundreds of years old.