Men lined up (#2) — Bike Couriers, Hong Kong Bank Bernie Lyon 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Dogs Lined Up — Cambie Bridge
Bernie Lyon, 2014
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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
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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.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
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.
Friday, December 6, 2013
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).
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Bernie Lyon, 2013.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Monday, September 23, 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)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sidaway Road, Richmond. 2013.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
TV screen shot— Golf tournament in Jersey City
Monday, August 19, 2013
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).
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
From the collection, circa 1910 or so...
(To me the top card looks as if it as been flipped horizontally. Anyone else?)
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Rental Hosing — Bernie Lyon finds the devil in the details (August 2013)
The motif here is Greater Vancouver in transition. With many exceptions.
Unless otherwise noted, most of the stuff here was created by Bernie Lyon, a Vancouver illustrator, and Lee Bacchus, a Vancouver photographer/writer. Our work has appeared in The Tyee, Vancouver Magazine and Western Living among others. Contact rlbacchus@gmail.com