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Watercolour mounted on cradled wood panel - 20” x 30”
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Originally a grocery store turned coffee shop was built in 1907. The building is the oldest remaining grocery storefront in Vancouver. It features an old-style western ‘boomtown’ front, a style developed in the California Gold Rush of 1849 era, when frontier merchants wanted to make their modest stores appear more imposing. (See also, the Scarlett Apartment Building from 1910 across the street, as we
Arbutus is one of the many tree-named streets in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano, a former hippie enclave that still boasts a beach, yoga studios on just about every block, health-food stores and the Naam, a café that’s been serving up brown rice with vegetable curries around the clock for 40 years. Much of the neighhourhood has gone upscale... but one place that seems apart from time is Arbutus Coffee, housed in a 1907 grocery store on Arbutus Street, up the hill from where Alice Munro lived as a newly-wed.”
Watercolour mounted on cradled wood panel - 20” x 30”
SOLD
Originally a grocery store turned coffee shop was built in 1907. The building is the oldest remaining grocery storefront in Vancouver. It features an old-style western ‘boomtown’ front, a style developed in the California Gold Rush of 1849 era, when frontier merchants wanted to make their modest stores appear more imposing. (See also, the Scarlett Apartment Building from 1910 across the street, as we
Arbutus is one of the many tree-named streets in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano, a former hippie enclave that still boasts a beach, yoga studios on just about every block, health-food stores and the Naam, a café that’s been serving up brown rice with vegetable curries around the clock for 40 years. Much of the neighhourhood has gone upscale... but one place that seems apart from time is Arbutus Coffee, housed in a 1907 grocery store on Arbutus Street, up the hill from where Alice Munro lived as a newly-wed.”