History

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.

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.

If you've not yet heard the news ( of course you have ), Vancouver is turning 125 this year.