Stanley Park, a map produced by Labatt Breweries of British Columbia Ltd, artist unknown. The brochure talks about the devastating effect Typhoon Frieda had on the park in the fall of 1962; more than 13,000 hemlocks were destroyed, knocking over mature trees onto younger generation of trees planted by foresters in the 1930s. In the spring of 1963, more than 22,000 Douglas fir were planted to repair the damage.
The cover of the December 2011 Buzzer by Dani Vachon. More samples of her fine vector poster art, traced poster designs, and hand-drawn posters here on her site.
Restoration Report: A Case for Renewed Life in the Old City, a brochure originally published circa 1969 by the City of Vancouver Department of Planning & Civic Development and Birmingham & Wood, Architects. Illustrations inside this urban plan for a revitalized Gastown would not look out of place in today’s landscape.
You can see this brochure in the Vancouver Heritage Foundation Reading Room, established thanks to a generous donation by Yosef Wosk.
Vancouver Tourist Association advert signed by Ronald Jackson, 1946. From inside the souvenir program for The Jubilee Show, seen here yesterday. This advert also resembles his colour painting for the Tourist Association seen here previously.
Souvenir Program from The Jubilee Show, a musical extravaganza held in July of 1946 for the city’s Diamond Jubilee. The artist responsible for the cover art is H. Edwards.
I found some media coverage which mentions the show in this issue of the Jewish Western Bulletin, a newspaper whose masthead bears a striking resemblance to that of Illustrated Vancouver!! Uncanny!
I also spotted a copy of this program for sale at Antiquarius books, a bookstore that was previously located in the Dominion Building in downtown Vancouver, now solely selling books on the Internet (situated in Falkland, BC). They got the date wrong though, presuming it was from the Golden Jubilee in 1936 instead of the Diamond Jubilee of 1946.
Cross-posted with additional text to VancouverIsAwesome.com
Simon Fraser University campus concepts by Arthur Erickson & Geoffrey Massey Architects, Zoltan Kiss, Rhone & Iredale, and R.F. Harrison, from the architectural competition of 1963, seen in the book Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson.
Update: I didn’t realize it wasn’t solely Erickson & Massey who ended up designing the buildings at SFU; from page 57 of Radical campus: Making Simon Fraser University by Hugh J. M. Johnston:
Five firms divided the project according to their placement in the competition. Erickson and Massey, with the first pick, considered the Academic Quadrangle, but took the mall because it was the central building that integrated all the others and that they believed really defined SFU. Rhone and Iredale, with second pick, had their eyes on the Academic Quadrangle, but were persuaded by Zoltan Kiss that the science centre would be better because it would expand in subsequent phases of construction, while the quadrangle, once built, was finished.
Zoltan Kiss took the Academic Quadrangle, which he had wanted all along. With a choice of theatre and gym or library, Robert Harrison chose the library. Duncan McNab and Associates were left with the theatre and gym/pool complex, a result which pleased McNab, who had been a diver on the McGill swim team.
A few more names I had omitted that deserve credit, from the SFU website:
The design chosen was that of a young UBC architecture professor, Arthur Erickson, and his colleague Geoffrey Massey. The four other winners were William R. Rhone and Randle Iredale; Zoltan Kiss; Duncan McNab, Harry Lee, and David Logan; and Robert F. Harrison. The Erickson and Massey design had been the unanimous choice of the judges, and had met all the requirements that Shrum had outlined in his memo.
Map of Vancouver by artist uncredited, although the artwork looks so much like Don Blood’s style, as seen in this colour map from 1955, I think it’s safe to attribute the work to him. From the November 1958 issue of the Vancouver Guide, a small handout advertising pamphlet published by George A. Vickers, lithographed by Evergreen Press Ltd. The year 1958 was celebrated as the British Columbia colonial centennial.
-Viaducts = Parks + submission #71 by DIALOG, PWL Partnership Landscape Architects, Beasley & Associates & Green Associatesin the City of Vancouver’s Re:Connect design competition regarding the future of the Georgia Street Viaducts. This entry was one of four selected as winners of the category Visualizing the Viaducts; all of the winners of the competition can be seen here.
Vancouver, The Pacific Playground: a SuperValu poster in the tradition of illustrated advertising maps of the city, conveniently pointing out all the SuperValu locations, not unlike this White Spot map. It’s signed Ed Langley, but I can’t find anything more about him. I’m also not sure of the date, but perhaps someone can pinpoint it with some of the landmarks? It shows the CBC headquarters designed by architect Paul Merrick so it must be post-1975, and it also mentions the Gastown Wax Museum, possibly early 1980s?!
Update: Thanks to theressomethingwrongwithyoubaby for this comment which seems to indicate the 1974-75 era is likely:
It shows the Crystal Pool at Sunset Beach which was replaced by the Aquatic Centre in 1974 according to the Parks Board site
I’ve passed this poster on to the VPL Special Collections.
Gastown Stories by Mary Drew, illustrated by Norman Drew. The book was published in 1980 by NC Press of Toronto. The character Chika was a favourite of the artist, and she was featured on their Saturday morning TV series as well. According to Drew’s own webpage, he would also like to release an e-book version of these stories and a DVD set of the original TV show, perhaps some time in the near future. From the title page of the book:
Mary Drew is a native of Sudbury, Ontario. Her children’s stories first appeared on the television series “Gastown Gang” in 1978. She has contributed articles to “Fun Times” magazine published in Canada by McDonald’s Restaurants.
Norman Drew was born in Kenora, Ontario and is a graduate of the University of Alberta in Fine and Applied Arts. As a motion picture animation producer, director, designer and animator he created cartoon episodes for Sesame Street, The Irish Rovers, The Beatles (Yellow Submarine), The Jackson Five, The Osmond Brothers (ABC-TV). His “Chika’s Magic Sketch Book” TV series is also produced for newspaper comic features. In 1978/79 he hosted a series of half-hour children’s shows on BCTV network called “Gastown Gang” based on his Gastown cartoon studio.
Actually, according to IMDB, Norman is one of a number of uncredited animators on the Beatles Yellow Submarine. I found this post by Norm Drew, where he reminisces about the making of the animated classic, which he posted on CartoonBrew.com back in 2010.
As one of the original animators on Yellow Submarine who worked at the studio in London in 1968, here are some of my thoughts about a YS remake.
At the time, we were aware it was a revolutionary graphic work. Some of us could see it would ‘break the animation mould’, though most of us didn’t foresee it would become a cult classic almost half a century later. John Lasseter is quoted as saying, ‘Yellow Submarine is my favorite animated feature’.
The production itself was more a creative ‘happening’ than an organized film production. We artists had great freedom and visceral involvement, far more than any highly organized production today…
White Spot placemat (dated Aug 22, 1947 in ink on the reverse). The initials L.D. appear in the bottom right of the placemat; anyone know a cartoonist from the 40s who might have those initials?!
Cross-posted to VancouverIsAwesome.com with additional text.
Illustrations of St James church by Frits Jacobsen, from inside the book Every Good Gift: a History of S. James’ Vancouver, 1881-1981 by Phyllis Reeve, the cover which I’ve shown previously. It’s a great history not just of the church and community, but of the City of Vancouver as well. Frits studied at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, arrived in Canada in 1959, and has lived in Vancouver since 1968 according to this 1999 interview. I met him in East Vancouver last week, and I can attest, his wit is as sharp as his style is precise. I got to share with him this trip down memory lane; a photograph of the door to his studio at 522 Shanghai Alley from 1974. His studio was situated next door and just above the The Sam Kee Building! And yes, as you can see, the buzzer he installed is still there!
Gastown Gorillas, a T-shirt from 1990 posted by VanKeefer seen in their Woodwards Collection on flickr.
(Best guess is that this was a softball team shirt for Woodward’s staff, or possibly some other Gastown area team at the time). Acquired second hand, mid-1990s.
