Then and Now: Kerrisdale

 

 
Staff writer February 1, 2013
 
 
 
Then: Bowser Block: West 41st and West Boulevard, Kerrisdale, 1913
 

Then: Bowser Block: West 41st and West Boulevard, Kerrisdale, 1913

Photograph by: VPL Accession Number: 71339 , Photographer / Studio: Unknown

Photographer Dan Toulgoet documents how times have changed in Kerrisdale, matching archived images from the Vancouver Public Library of streets, buildings and neighbourhhood haunts with their present day incarnations.

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Then: Bowser Block: West 41st and West Boulevard, Kerrisdale, 1913
 

Then: Bowser Block: West 41st and West Boulevard, Kerrisdale, 1913

Photograph by: VPL Accession Number: 71339 , Photographer / Studio: Unknown

 
Then: Bowser Block: West 41st and West Boulevard, Kerrisdale, 1913
Now: Bowser Block West 41st Avenue and West Boulevard.
Then: Strathcona Garage: 5503 West Boulevard, July 24, 1945
Now: 5503 West Blvd. a three story professional building.
Then: Fageol truck, Standard Builder's Supply Co. Ltd., Kerrisdale, 1929
Now: Former Standard Builder’s Supply is an apartment at 6080 East Blvd.
Then: St. Mary's Church in Kerrisdale, 1921
Now: St. Mary's Church in Kerrisdale.
Then: Safeway Stores Ltd. No. 1, Kerrisdale 1939
Now: Two stores along 41st Ave. where Safeway No. 1 once stood.
Then: Street scene of road construction on West Boulevard at 38th Avenue looking south, Kerrisdale, 1952
Now: Street scene on West Boulevard at 38th Avenue looking south.
Then: Magee Secondary School (formerly Point Grey High School), 1921
Now: Magee Secondary School.
Then: Kerrisdale Theatre, 1930
Now: Two stores occupy the space where the Kerrisdale Theatre was once located.
 
 
 
 
 

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