Urban Legend (2008), a painting by Dylan Schultz from a promotional invite for Art in the City, an event at the West End Community Centre that he headlined in May of 2009.
These distinctive hydro poles in back alleys are a disappearing breed, as BC Hydro announced the $75 million project last year to replace 350 H-frame poles with an upgraded underground network. A few poles will remain in Gastown and Chinatown for their heritage value (and their popularity with film crews), but the wires that remain will actually be dummy wires. But don’t go testing which wires are live and which are dummies just yet; the upgrade could take until 2017 to complete.
