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Olympic pin traders
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.
Feb 10, 2011 10:30 PM
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Petroglyph at MOV
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.
Feb 3, 2011 10:47 AM
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Vancouver Is Awesome on 100.5 The Peak: Expo 86 crap on Ebay and Craigslist and 40 years of the Vancouver Canucks
Every Sunday at noon and 6PM 100.5 The Peak plays a feature that we record with them called Vancouver Is Awesome! Here's the one from this week about Expo 86 crap on Ebay and Craigslist and 40 years of the Vancouver Canucks... 100.
Feb 1, 2011 12:40 AM
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Vancouver Was Awesome: Where it all began
If you've not yet heard the news ( of course you have ), Vancouver is turning 125 this year.
Jan 26, 2011 12:59 AM
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V.I.A. Weekly Nardwuar – Week 20 Nardwuar vs. Ben Gibbard in an Expo 86 toque!
This is Bob K stepping in to introduce Nardwuar's video this week! If you watched his INTERVIEW WITH FLEA from 1991 that he shared last Friday you may have noticed he was wearing a sweet Expo 86 toque in it.
Jan 14, 2011 10:07 AM
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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
Nov 23, 2010 6:57 AM
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True Vancouver Story #5 - Your friendly neighbourhood Cigarette-Smoking Man
Did you know that the local actor who played the Cigarette-Smoking Man on the The X-Files ( William B Davis ) quit smoking in the 1970s and that he actually smoked herbal cigarettes throughout most of the production of the series? True story.
Nov 16, 2010 12:18 AM
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True Vancouver Story #4 - On The Georgia Straight's dime
Did you know that the Georgia Straight ( the free Vancouver arts and entertainment weekly which was founded in 1967) cost a dime to purchase when it was first published? Holy mackerel. True story.
Nov 9, 2010 7:08 AM
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True Vancouver Story #3 - Greenpeace
Did you know that Greenpeace (the international activist organization that focuses its work on global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues) was founded in Vancouver in the 1970's? True story.
Nov 2, 2010 8:08 AM
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One sweet Expo 86 visor
I've made so many blog posts about Expo 86 memorabilia over the years with V.I.A. that I don't even know how to introduce them any more.
Oct 15, 2010 10:33 AM
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