Vintage Stores on Main

Main Street in Vancouver has an amazing assortment of vintage clothing and antique furniture stores, all within an afternoon stroll.

While the biggest cluster of retro shops starts at Main & 16th, You may want to start with F as in Frank Vintage Clothing at Main & Broadway before heading south.

As a true Vancouver-ite, you will be familiar with the 'awesome' numbering system  used for addresses on Vancouver streets. There are at least 3 Vintage shops worth checking out on Main at 16th including The Main Sellution, Bohemia Gallery, and C'Est La Vie Consignment Boutique which are of course in the 3,200 block.

Heading up to 19th you'll find A Bakers Dozen Antiques, Front and Company at 22nd,  JoJo's Place  and Woo Vintage Clothing between 28th and 30th and finally ReFind just south of 30th. Plenty of other cool shops along the way.

Visit the Vancouver Antique Store Map for a complete map of more Vintage and consignment antique stores in Vancouver.

Email rneuman(at)shaw.ca if you would like your vintage, antique, or consignment store added to the map.

Deep Cove Brewing and Distilling 

I absolutely love the industrial décor at Deep Cove Brewing and Distilling. Located at 2270 Dollarton Hwy (between Riverside & Forester) in North Vancouver, Deep Cove Brewing has a rustic look that makes an awesome place to drink awesome beer and spirits!

Photo courtesy of The Spirit of BC

Reclaimed wood Table

EVERYTHING is cool inside. You’ll find reclaimed wood used in the steel pipe shelving and long continuous wooden tables that make an extremely social setting.

There’s a wall of barrels behind where the musical acts play and a tasting bar made from a reclaimed brewing tank. The In the hallway to the back there’s a huge set of ominous door that look like they came from the set of King of Thrones. The Doors are actually made from reclaimed wood from a dock in China where they sourced the still. The doors are a lot lighter than they look.

Smaller table made from barrels with glass table top.

The spirit still by the bar is an amazing sight. I’m so glad they placed it where it’s easy to see when enjoying a Long Table Cucumber Gin. It’s like something straight out of 2,000 leagues under the sea. The distillation and rectification columns look like huge copper oboes. Totally steampunk!

Look up – It’s a stylish bicycle (of course!)

Check it out yourself! 2270 Dollarton Hwy (between Riverside & Forester) in North Vancouver

Venables Antque Stores Map

Anique Stores on Venables

From West to East:

Memory Lane Antiques
169 Parker St, Vancouver, BC

Abe's Furniture
1599 Venables St, Vancouver, BC

Sugar Barrel Antiques
915 Cotton Dr, Vancouver, BC

The Peg General Store 
1003 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC

Attic Treasures 
944 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC

The Found and The Freed 
706 Victoria Dr, Vancouver, BC

Visit the Vancouver Antique Store Map for a complete map of more Vintage and consignment antique stores in Vancouver.

Time Traveler's Bazaar 2016

SUNDAY APRIL 17, 2016 10:30 am to 5:00 pm
Heritage Hall at 3102 Main Street (at 15th Ave) Vancouver, BC

Here are some photos from the 2016 Time Travelers's Bazaar:

Serious Time Traveler!

Fine Victorian Ladies!

Men that appreciate a great vest.

I met some very cool people here with some fantastical hand-made jewelry and steampunk accessories.

Here are just a few of the tables:

Art of Adornment - Beautiful Victorian, Gothic, & 1920's Style Fashion Accessories

Bat-Fish studio - Upcycling everything from fabric samples to bicycle inner-tubes.

Kwest Costume Art - Awesome plague masks!!

My Tell Tale Heart - Faery Tale, Celtic, & Steampunk clothing & jewellery

Naranation - Star Wars and Walking dead cellphone clutches and wallets.

whovianart - Steampunk,  comic book, and alterworld jewelry and accessories.

Steampunk gears from Professor Whovianart

See a complete list of Vendors Here.

While your on Main street, you might as well pop into A Bakers Dozen Antiques at 19th.

The weather is supposed to be good so you might as well take a stroll up to 28th and 30th and visit JoJo's Place and ReFind. Plenty of other cool shops along the way.

Visit the Vancouver Antique Store Map for a complete map of more Vintage and consignment antique stores in Vancouver.

Black Steel Pipe Lamp

Black Steel Pipe Lamp $50

New lamp made with 1/2" black steel pipe and Vintage 60 Watt Bulb.

Email rneuman(at)shaw.ca if you are interested.

Steampunk Lamp

Steampunk Lamp $90

Made with copper pipe and 1/2 inch steel pipe. 60 watt Vintage bulb.

 

email rneuman(at)shaw.ca if you are interested.

Kerrisdale Antiques Fair April 2016

Check out the Sneak Peak Behind the Scenes at Kerrisdale Antiques Fair April 2016 from Secondhand Savvy

Vintage BC Photos in North Vancouver

Presentation House Gallery

Who doesn't love a good ole' Stove Exchange?

333 CHESTERFIELD AVENUE, NORTH VANCOUVER, BC
WED TO SUN 12:00 - 5:00 PM T +1 604 986 1351

NANITCH: Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection
Saturday, April 16 | 7:30pm – Exhibition Reception
Monday, April 18 | 7pm – Gold Nuggets and Silver Salts: The Photographic Legacy of Frederick Dally, Lecture by Joan Schwartz
Thursday, May 12 | 7:30pm – Exhibition Tour with Uno Langmann

NANITCH offers the first look into the Uno Langmann Family Collection of BC Photographs, an important archive of over 18,000, rarely seen photographs recently donated to UBC Library by Vancouver’s Uno and Dianne Langmann and Uno Langmann Ltd. Spanning a sixty-year period from the 1860s to the early 1920s, this groundbreaking exhibition reveals dramatic changes in the province, as well as in how and why photographs were made.

The dynamic display of photographic material shows how the official activities of nineteenth-century working photographers using large-format cameras evolved with the introduction of amateur cameras and mass distribution of promotional photography. The eclectic material includes hand-coloured albumen prints, stereocards, cartes de visite, postcards and glass negatives.

Over 2100 Vancouver Historic Maps Now online

Thanks to funding from the British Columbia History Digitization Program, The city of Vancouver has recently completed a project to digitize over 2100 maps and plans and made them available online for you to use and re-use.

They’ve tried to digitize these maps with enough resolution to support future types of re-use and processing, including optical character recognition and feature extraction. - See more at: Vancouver Map Archives

Railtown, Gastown, Chinatown Story in L.A. Times

Canada's revitalizing Gastown, Railtown and Chinatown

Read the whole Los Angeles Times story at: Hip meets heritage in Vancouver

Tucked alongside the city's forest of gleaming glass towers are three historic neighborhoods that had been overlooked until recently. These neighborhoods, the city's oldest, had fallen into disrepair and were home to those struggling to survive in one of Canada's poorest postal codes.

Gastown is Vancouver's birthplace; Railtown boomed as the warehouse district for the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway, which was completed in 1885; and Chinatown was the hub for many of the 15,000 Asian immigrants who helped construct that nation-building line.

Skateboards and modern art pop up amid the traditional in gentrifying Chinatown

Trendy shops, gastropubs and high-tech firms have re-illuminated Gastown

 

Railtown on track to becoming a funky 'hood full of craft beers and stellar food

"Railtown is becoming a hip 'hood, and it's changing fast. On a decidedly ungentrified block of Powell Street, a young couple recently opened the funky, vintage Mackenzie Room restaurant, while just down the road is the new, industrial-chic, pan-Latin small-plate Cuchillo."