Yew & Cornwall (2014)

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

From the postcard collection…

Apple Store Employee Training — Bernie Lyon 2014

(click to enlarge)

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

Oakridge — Bernie Lyon 2014

Hastings-Sunrise 2014

RADIO NEWS AUDIO SUPPORT — BERNIE LYON, 2014.

BC Electric Street & Miscellaneous Guide printed in 1943 (click to enlarge). The sub head reads: Vancouver City and Suburban Street Railway and Bus Lines. Likely issued to streetcar motormen, conductors and bus drivers.

History —Here today, gone…
Demolition crew set to erase part of historic Japantown on Vancouver's Powell Street.
— photo by Lee Bacchus, 2005 (click to enlarge).

Bernie Lyon, 2013.

A slice of life and apples. A west-side high school lunch...

" I'd like a Happy Meal….grilled cheese…. apple slices….and could I replace my beverage with a latte…a skim milk latte?"

(Bernie Lyon, 2013)

Sidaway Road, Richmond. 2013.

TV screen shot— Golf tournament in Jersey City

News item: "Air Canada to permit dogs onboard in last five rows of cabin [beginning October 2013]."
— Drawing by Bernie Lyon (click image to enlarge).

From the collection, circa 1910 or so...
(To me the top card looks as if it as been flipped horizontally. Anyone else?)

Rental Hosing — Bernie Lyon finds the devil in the details (August 2013)

Langley bus stop (2013) by Bernie Lyon

West Point Grey, yesterday...

North Vancouver, a hundred or so years ago...

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Plum bob (with original string) — Used in the construction of 2095 West 35th. Built 1949 — Demolished in 2013.
—by Bernie Lyon 2013

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Queen Elizabeth Park, 2013.

Gin & Lemonade

Seen travelling south along Ontario Bikeway
— Bernie Lion, June 2013

Finn Slough — Two Views

 Wrought iron railing from the Spanish Grille (Old Hotel Vancouver 1916-49)

— by Bernie Lyon 2012

Mart Kenny Orchestra in the Spanish Grille 1935

(Vancouver Archive photo. W.J. Moore photographer.)

From the collection: The Letter Courier. 1911.

THE GREAT MYSTERY — CAPILANO GARDEN, BC
(A new addition to my postcard collection. The mystery is what the hell is this? Anyone know?)