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True Vancouver Story #6 – Hotdoggin’ it at EXPO 86

Did you know that Expo 86 housed the biggest food production centre ever created for a world's fair, and that they sold over 2 million hot dogs during it? Allen Garr (the same Allen Garr who is now a BEEKEEPER that we featured recently) presented a s

Did you know that Expo 86 housed the biggest food production centre ever created for a world's fair, and that they sold over 2 million hot dogs during it? Allen Garr (the same Allen Garr who is now a BEEKEEPER that we featured recently) presented a story about it for CBC's The Journal in May of 1986 and you can watch that story HERE.

True story.

As an aside, if you know anybody who has access to the original artwork of that incredible hot dog/Expo 86 graphic I think I know somebody who wants to purchase it.