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Go go dancers and disco dancing were all part of the scene at Vancouver’s Oil Can Harry’s nightclub.
We dug through our archives for these groovy photos.
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From the 1930s to late ’70s, the Cave was one of Vancouver’s premiere supper clubs featuring entertainers such as Lena Horne, Cher, Mitzi Gaynor, The Supremes and Ray Charles.
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Happy 85th birthday, Orpheum Theatre!
We dug through our archives to discover photos and ads from the Vancouver landmark.
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Elvis lives — on in Vancouver, that is.
We dug through our archives to find our original review and coverage of his third — and last — time concert outside of the U.S. at Vancouver’s Empire Stadium.
Our review was mixed, to say the least.
_”Elvis may have given western Canada its biggest showbusiness crowd in history but he also produced a flop.”_
That 22-minute concert gave B.C.’s very own Red Robinson fame.
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Some things never change
A Vancouver Daily Province story about teachers in Vancouver uniting against school authorities under the subheadings “Salary question an issue” and “Overcrowding of rooms” made the front page on…
Oct. 3, 1910.
That other B.C. bud
Reason No. 3,259 why we love digging through the archives: Finding great print advertisements, like this one, which once upon a time ran in The Province.
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Who are these people?
These photographers were found in a box inside Vancouver’s WilMar Estate, a 1925 historic mansion (in original condition) which has been on the market since last November.
If you can identify the people in these photos with greater certainty, or know more about the Kitchen family, please send an email to tabtips@theprovince.com or call our city desk at 604-605-2030.
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History? What history?
We look back at roughly 40 years of bad blood between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins in this gallery.
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Province throwback to 1958
“With me, mornings give me the opportunity to rest and think. After breakfast with the older children off to school, what a pleasure it s to relax with the morning Province, to scan the news from London, New York, Paris or Moscow, to turn leisurely to Eric Nicol … Reading The Province with my morning coffee has become as much a part of my day as washing or cooking.”
— Mrs. Henry Delesalle
Oh Vancouver, how you’ve changed.
Check out more then and now photos of the city. Want to see more? Send archival photos from B.C. to gsedlarova@theprovince.com — don’t forget to include the original credit for the image, if known.
(P.S. We’re back and we missed you — a lot.)
A man cooks in an alley in the Downtown Eastside.
Stumbled across this Province file photo yet again during a recent search. It can also be found in our Facebook album “A pictorial history of The Province.”
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It was 50 years ago today, that U.S. president John F. Kennedy uttered his stirring words: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
In honour of that momentous moment of history we’ve compiled several other great speeches here.
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