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Watercolour mounted on cradled wood panel - 20” x 24”
Vancouver’s iconic “Ho Ho Inn” Restaurant, first opened in China Town in 1954 at 102 East Pender Street. A very popular, well established Chinese Food eatery and famous for its food and amazing neon signs including a rice bowl and chopsticks. Today the signs and restaurant are not operating.
The tall, narrow building is seen as a good example of a Chinatown ‘society building’,” many of which were purchased by Chinese benevolent societies as an investment for their members. The heritage building at 102 East Pender St. was built in 1911 and bought in 1926 by the Lung Kong Tien Yee Association, which still owns the property and provides affordable housing for community members in the Sun Ah Hotel on the building’s upper floors.
The Sun Ah Hotel has heritage value because of its associations with important persons, patterns, and institutions in Chinatown and Vancouver. Heritage value is also found in the architecture and the important role it played in shaping East Pender Street, Chinatown’s main commercial and community street.
Contact me to arrange date and time for viewing at studio: micbro@telus.net
Watercolour mounted on cradled wood panel - 20” x 24”
Vancouver’s iconic “Ho Ho Inn” Restaurant, first opened in China Town in 1954 at 102 East Pender Street. A very popular, well established Chinese Food eatery and famous for its food and amazing neon signs including a rice bowl and chopsticks. Today the signs and restaurant are not operating.
The tall, narrow building is seen as a good example of a Chinatown ‘society building’,” many of which were purchased by Chinese benevolent societies as an investment for their members. The heritage building at 102 East Pender St. was built in 1911 and bought in 1926 by the Lung Kong Tien Yee Association, which still owns the property and provides affordable housing for community members in the Sun Ah Hotel on the building’s upper floors.
The Sun Ah Hotel has heritage value because of its associations with important persons, patterns, and institutions in Chinatown and Vancouver. Heritage value is also found in the architecture and the important role it played in shaping East Pender Street, Chinatown’s main commercial and community street.
Contact me to arrange date and time for viewing at studio: micbro@telus.net