Thursday, June 5, 2014























Anywhere Vancouver this week — 2014
By Bernie Lyon


Tuesday, May 27, 2014




























West Pender — 2014


Thursday, May 22, 2014



















YVR — Bernie Lyon 2014


Friday, May 9, 2014


















From the collection (late 40s?)...
Kitschy. But you have to admire the creative liberties taken with some of photos for these hand-painted postcards.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014




















Garbage Day (2014)
by Bernie Lyon

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

















Beaver Lake trail, Stanley Park. 2014

Saturday, April 19, 2014




















Italian court orders former Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi to spend at least four hours a week, for one year, helping older people in a care home in Lombardy (New York Times, April 16/14)
— Illustration by Bernie Lyon

Monday, April 14, 2014




















44th off Fraser
Bernie Lyon 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014



















Photo by Brian Kent.

A quarter century ago I wrote this Vancouver Sun feature about an 18-year-old Canucks rookie:

TREVOR LINDEN's 1965 red Mustang is five years older than he is and a classic for all the right reasons.
None of these flashy reptilian Teutonic-Italio imports with more curves than a swimsuit calendar for Johnny Canuck. The Vancouver rookie likes 'em simple, swift and honest.
Back in The Hat (as Linden calls his hometown of Medicine Hat) he keeps a stock Datsun 240Z for off-season spins and has helped his dad restore a 1956 T-Bird - the classic of classic cars.
Classic. The noun-adjective of the '80s. While boomer-oids pine for all things classic (rock & roll, Coke and Gilligan's Island), sports fans, too, yearn for the classic aesthetic - the purity of a Johnny Unitas, the elegance of a Jean Beliveau, the integrity of a Stan Musial...
Read the rest here 

Wednesday, April 9, 2014


















From the collection — circa 1930s?

Saturday, April 5, 2014



















37th Avenue East, Laneway House
Bernie Lyon — 2014

Wednesday, April 2, 2014


















Blue Angel Convenience — West Pender (2014)

Saturday, March 29, 2014


























Oakridge introduces comfortable chairs in the West Atrium.
Bernie Lyon — 2014.


Wednesday, March 26, 2014




























International Village Mall 2014

Saturday, March 22, 2014




















At the Oakridge lotto kiosk.
Bernie Lyon 2014


Wednesday, March 19, 2014


















Jericho 2014


Monday, March 17, 2014



















ESL College - Hastings and Homer
Bernie Lyon 2014


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

















Recent acquisition. Can this be real? Early 20th century ultralight...


Friday, March 7, 2014



















Men Lined Up (#3) — 3rd & Ontario
Bernie Lyon 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014



















Two Women Having Lunch at Jericho on a Very Cold Day
(2014)



Friday, February 28, 2014























Men lined up (#2) —  Bike Couriers, Hong Kong Bank
Bernie Lyon 2014


Monday, February 24, 2014



















Dogs Lined Up — Cambie Bridge
Bernie Lyon, 2014
(click image to enlarge)

Friday, February 21, 2014


















Yew & Cornwall (2014)

Saturday, February 15, 2014


















Men Lined Up #1, Jack Poole Plaza (First in a series) — Bernie Lyon, 2014.




Wednesday, February 12, 2014




























From the postcard collection…


Friday, February 7, 2014





















Apple Store Employee Training — Bernie Lyon 2014

(click to enlarge)




Wednesday, February 5, 2014


















The Oak Theatre, an art-deco movie house once perched among the motor courts and used car dealerships on Kingsway in Burnaby, is a faint apparition of a memory now. But I will not forget seeing Riders to the Stars (1954) there, a clunky space yarn in which astronauts try to catch meteors in large nets suspended beneath their rocket ship.



Riders to the Stars didn't arrive at the Oak until the early '60s, along with the pneumatic Dawn Addams in her obligatory skin-tight spacesuit.
One scene in which an astronaut abandons the womb of the ship in a fit of claustrophobia and consequently has his face promptly sucked off by the cosmic vacuum, disturbed my sleep for months, and still haunts me occasionally.
Perhaps the futurism suggested in the Oak's forward-looking architecture along with the simultaneous promise (some of it erotic) and dread evoked by the movie's "technology" anticipated my own uneasy futuristic encounter with modernism and mortality.

— Lee Bacchus



Friday, January 31, 2014


Oakridge — Bernie Lyon 2014

Wednesday, January 29, 2014
















Hastings-Sunrise 2014

Friday, January 24, 2014




















RADIO NEWS AUDIO SUPPORT — BERNIE LYON, 2014.