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clownenergyy · 2 years

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GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN

GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN GASTOWN

#IM SO EXCITED #love gastown #number one gastown enjoyer #mad max #furiosa 2024 #furiosa #furiosa set pics #gastown #mmfr #mad max fury road #mm:fr #furiosa movie #mad max furiosa #clown talks

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filmap · 1 year

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Fresh Mimi Cave. 2022

Bar Clough Club, 212 Abbott St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2K8, Canada See in map

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#mimi cave #fresh #daisy edgar-jones #sebastian stan #dayo okeniyi #gastown #vancouver #british columbia #canada #bar #cocktails #movie #cinema #film #location #google maps #street view #2022

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aleverythingsfine · 1 month

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Sigo contando las horas para volverte a ver.🕑✨

#steam #clock #gastown

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cruella-devegan · 1 year

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MeeT in Gastown / Vancouver, Canada

Crispy BBQ Burger - Our signature burger patty, crispy-battered and tossed in our whiskey BBQ sauce, topped with crispy onion strings, a slice of chao cheez and chipotle mayo

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madame-myself · 5 months

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Letting time pass us by

#Vancouver #downtown #winter #cafe #pizza #canada #fairy lights #gastown

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rickchung · 7 months

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The Blarney Stone Irish Pub x Gastown.

New locally-sourced, overhauled menu from Rosie’s BBQ Executive Chef Karl Gregg.

Breakfast sando: scrambled egg, green onions, bacon, and cheddar on a potato bun.

Bangers and mash: sausages, seasonal roasted root vegetables, mashed potato, Guinness, and onion gravy.

Cottage pie: ground beef, mixed vegetables, buttered mashed potato, and tomato gravy.

“Stone” burger: cheddar, bacon, lettuce, pickles, mayo, BBQ sauce, and onion rings.

Signature Jameson glazed chicken wings.

Irish hand pies: ground beef, peas, mashed potato, and potted beef onion gravy.

Crispy fishwich sliders: hand-battered haddock, tartar, and cheese.

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adriantalens · 9 months

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released a chill lo-fi mix for a song of mine called 10:30 P.M 🌃🎵🎧

and made video with some of my photography around Gastown, Vancouver to go with it

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#musicproduction #chill #lo-fi #lofi #photography #Gastown #vancouver #aesthetic #Youtube

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the-revhead · 2 years

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FINALLY A MAD MAX OC POST!! I’ve been dying to redesign my girl for months. Meet Miss Whiskey! She’s an OC made mainly for the game ^^

The first design: Gastown Whiskey! This is how she dressed when she was a Bigwig. She was obsessed with the Old World and liked to come off as feminine and fancy as she could, much to the displeasure of Scrotus (who saw her femininity in his circle of power as a bit of a stain on his character)

The second design: after the events of the game, Whiskey loses her position in Gastown and is cast into the wastes. Spoiled and clueless from being pampered in Gastown for so many years, she has absolutely no survival skills.. except for her clever mouth.

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Description:

Miss Whiskey is a high ranking bigwig within Gastown’s hierarchy, being the negotiator for the People Eater and Scrotus himself. She initially made herself useful to Scrotus due to her ability to speak Under-Russian, which made her useful when it came to communicating and making deals with the Buzzard hordes at the time. This one taste of usefulness quickly went to Whiskey’s head, and she began doing everything she could to stay in Scrotus’s good graces. Although Scrotus isn’t exactly fond of her, he still keeps her within the hierarchy because she somehow always finds a way to make herself useful to him, whether that be keeping the Gastown wretches from rising up against him or negotiating with other factions. Her beauty and femininity definitely play a role in making her a very convincing messenger and negotiator.

Her status in Scrotus’ circle has also granted her the ability to have War Boys of her own. Dubbed “Parlor Boys” , her war boys are mainly trained to be body guards and heavy-lifters for her. They are distinguishable from other War Boys due to the fact that they wear bow ties on their necks, fancy white cuffs on their wrists, dress pants (or anything resembling them), and mark themselves with dots under their eyes to mimic Whiskey’s signature mole.

Many in the Gastown power circle believe it is only a matter of time before Scrotus does away with Miss Whiskey, but she genuinely believes she has Scrotus and Stank Gum wrapped around her finger. If only she knew how thin the ice she was walking on actually was…

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Name: Whiskey (changed to Miss Whiskey upon becoming a bigwig)

Age: 9490 days (26 years)

Height: 5’7

Sex: female

Gender: cisgender (she/her)

Sexuality: Androsexual

Species: human (full-life)

Occupation: Gastown’s Negotiator and Translator

Weapon(s): Blades hidden in her large coat

Car(s): a white, heavily modified 1955 Cadillac fleetwood dubbed “The White Cough”. It was a gift from another warlord some time past

Affiliations: Scrotus’ Horde

Alignment: Lawfully neutral

Personality: Whiskey is confident in her abilities and a bit narcissistic, often believing she can fix any situation she’s in and get anyone to like her. She likes to come off as beautiful and ladylike to get others to admire her. Secretly, she’s very open to experience and likes to spoil those she really likes, enjoying being seen as useful to them.

Skills: Multilingual, fast learner, good at convincing others to do scrotus’s bidding in a non-violent way, captivating others, calming others down, soothing, keeping people calm.

Interests: loves collecting “fancy” things from the old world. She assumes anything shiny is valuable to her and sends her Parlor Boys to find the best, shiniest and prettiest scrap they can find. Has an obsession with 1920s culture and music as well.

Favorite item: her dog-fur coat, made from the pelts of dogs. She considers it to be very fancy and often wears it to Gastown races.

Goals: to remain the Negotiator of Gastown and bask in the privileges it brings her

Familial relations: her mother is unknown, but her father is the Organic Mechanic from the Citadel. The two are estranged from each other and she prefers that people don’t know they’re related.

Positive traits: Eager to please, patient, good listener, confident, goal-oriented

Negative traits: full of herself, delusions of grandeur, spoiled by her wealth, loves the attention of men, little to no wasteland survival skills aside from negotiating

Allies: Jeet of the Great White (the two have a secret romance), Scrotus (for now), Stank Gum, The Outcrier

Romantic/sexual interest(s): Jeet and Stank Gum

#mad max #mad max game #stank gum #wasteland #jeet #gas town #gastown #stankgum #my oc art #oc x canon #oc rp #oc art #oc stuff

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greenbagjosh · 1 year

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Vancouver and Chilliwack April 2003

22 - 24 April 2003

Hi everyone! This weekend 20 years ago, I visited Vancouver, BC, Canada, for the second time. I spent two nights in Vancouver's Davie district, sort of west of downtown Vancouver. It was also the first time I rented a car on my own, in a foreign country.

Salut à tout le monde! Ce week-end, il y a 20 ans, j'ai visité Vancouver, BC, Canada, pour la deuxième fois. J'ai passé deux nuits dans le quartier Davie de Vancouver, un peu à l'ouest du centre-ville de Vancouver. C'était aussi la première fois que je louais une voiture par moi-même, dans un pays étranger.

I flew on Friday 22nd April from SFO airport's Terminal 3 by United Airlines. I had booked a first class seat with a 500 mile coupon. The flight took off about 5 PM nonstop to Vancouver. I think I arrived about 8 PM. When I landed, it was in the US terminal where prechecks going back take place. I had to go through Canadian customs. They asked their nosy questions similar to the last time I was there, April 2002. I was admitted into Canada, then I went to baggage claim and retrieved my suitcase. I went through the "Nothing to declare" green lane.

Once I retrieved my suitcase, I went to the Hertz car rental desk. They had my car ready. It was a 2003 Oldsmobile Alero (in Europe this was sold as the Chevrolet Alero). This one had a 3.4 liter V6 engine, 4 speed automatic transmission, and an AM/FM/CD player radio. I did not really need a map for the most part, as I had been to the youth hostel on Thurlow and Burnaby Streets once before. Parking it would be a challenge, but the hospital nearby had parking.

I drove up Grant McConachie Way to Granville Street. After Granville Island, BC route 99 split off into Howe and Seymour Streets. I went northeast on Seymour Street, to Davie Street and turned left. I went to Thurlow Street and turned left, then turned onto Burnaby Street. Back then, there was no plan to build what is known as the Canada Line. I noticed that some of the signals, that had flashing green signals, which meant mainly the same thing as a steady green. When the light was to change, there would be four seconds of steady green before the light went yellow. When the red cycle was over, the light would flash green again and repeat the cycle as necessary. That is something that happens in British Columbia, I have not seen that in other provinces in Canada.

I checked into the hostel, and deposited my bags in my room. I had a single room, right next to the elevator. My room was not ensuite, there was a shared bathroom down the hall. I had to park the car at St. Paul's Hospital. The car park allowed long term parking, so it was okay to park there overnight. Parking in Vancouver is much more difficult that most cities in the USA. I think it was about $20 US to park for two nights. Once I parked the car, I walked to Thurlow Street, then Davie, and to Bute Street. I remembered Hamburger Mary's (now it is called Mary's on Davie), so I went there. I thought about going to Denny's but I passed on that. In Canada, the apostrophe of Denny's is the red maple leaf. McDonald's has something similar in its corporate logo, with a red leaf in the center. I ordered a large hamburger but was unable to eat it all for some reason. I left enough fries as well. The waiter gave me a hinge container, I think a 9 by 6 by 3 inches (22 by 15 by 8 cm) and I took my food to the hostel. The hostel had a communal walk-in refrigerator, and they provided a permanent marker to mark whose food belonged to whom, and what their checkout date was. If there was food in the refrigerator and the guest had already checked out, it was put on a special rack for "free food". The hostel did not provide breakfast back then, so people had to cook their own. After I went to my room, I went to sleep. It was not high season, so it was fairly easy to fall asleep.

On Saturday 23rd April, I woke up, took a shower, went down to the kitchen to collect my hamburger and fries, then walked to the hospital to get the car. I stopped at a Blenz coffee shop, to get some coffee. Blenz is a coffee chain in British Columbia similar to Starbuck's, has few, if any, locations outside of British Columbia. I drove along Davie Street to Denman Street, up BC route 99 to Stanley Park Drive and the totem poles. The previous year, 2002, I had visited the Indigenous Art Museum at University of British Columbia where they had a massive collection of totem poles. The ones at Stanley Park were okay, not particularly spectactular. I liked the view of the Vancouver skyline better. I was able to see Canada Place across the harbor. The weather was nice then. I bought a few gifts for my family at the gift shop. I finished my hamburger, fries and coffee before driving onwards.

After leaving Stanley Park on the north side of the island, I went north on the Lions Gate Bridge to North Vancouver. I ended up in the Capilano Indian Reserve. I turned right on Marine Drive and drove east on Third Street and eventually Main Street. I crossed back into Vancouver by the Trans Canada Highway route 1 which went through Burnaby and Abbotsford. The speed limit was 100 km/h. All highway distances were in metric. After Abbotsford, the speed limit increased to 110 km/h. I planned to go only as far as Chilliwack. Chilliwack was named from the indigenous word Ts'elxweyeqw. The highway was very nice. I played a CD in the CD player. It was mostly of music I had recorded from November 2002, including a few German songs. It felt odd to play German music in Canada.

Once I arrived in Chilliwack, it looked very similar to a small town in the USA, with the main difference being, instead of the Stars and Stripes, it was two red rectangles, and a big red maple leaf on top of the white rectangle. I stopped at the McDonald's on Luckakuck Way, and ordered a hamburger and a small Coke. The hamburger tasted just like the ones I had in the USA. I drove to downtown Chilliwack and wanted to see the murals. One of them stood out to me and it was the decades from 1930 to 1990 or so.

About 2 PM, I drove west on the Trans Canada highway to Vancouver, turning off at Hastings and driving on to St. Paul's Hospital to park again. I walked to the hostel and asked for a day pass. They sold me one for $8.00. I went to the Shoppers Drug Mart, nearby and bought a 2 liter bottle of Sprite Ice. Sprite Ice is basically Sprite with mint flavoring. I rode on the line 6 to Seymour Street, transferred to the line 4 or line 7, and went to the Granville Skytrain station. Back then, Skytrain did not have fare gates. Skytrain stations Granville and Burrard, both have the eastbound platform on the lower level and westbound platform at the upper level. I took the Skytrain to Gastown, which would require a walk from the Waterfront station. I walked a few blocks along Water Street to the whistling steam clock. I watched the clock strike 3 PM. I wish at the time, that I had a working video camera. That would not happen until a year later.

I walked to the Victory Square Cenotaph at Victory Square, and drank some of the Sprite Ice from the bottle that I had in my bag. I walked down Cambie Street and BC route 1A to the Stadium-Chinatown Skytrain station. I took the Millenium Line to Loughheed Town Center. I remember the Millenium line only went as far as Braid, but on 31st August, the line was expanded to Commercial/Broadway. I spent about an hour in the Town Center. It was not much more different than the average shopping mall in the USA.

Due to its location, it was hard to accurately keep track of time, and the sun set later than in California. I took the Skytrain from Loughheed Town Center to Granville, took a bus to Robson Street and then fou a place to eat for supper. It was a Japanese curry restaurant. I ordered a donkatsu curry with udon noodles. It tasted excellent. I had a bubble tea, I think, matcha flavored. Then I walked back to the hostel.

When I was at the hostel, I took my radio and recorded some music. The radio I had was not the Aiwa HS-JS 479 that I brought the previous year, but it was a portable one with digital tuning and 2 inch / 5 cm speakers. Its cassette playback had the "Q-Sound" function to play prerecorded cassettes. I recorded some French and also some English programming. On one of the French stations, I recorded "Tous les palmiers" by the Quebec band Beau Dommage, and "Un homme et une femme" by some unknown duo, definitely not the original ones from the 1960s, definitely not Mireille Mathieu either. I went to bed soon after that.

Sunday the 24th April, I had to wake up and get breakfast. I had a coffee and pastry at Blenz Coffee on Davie Street. Then I checked out of the hostel, took my luggage to the car, and drove south on Granville Road to the airport. However there was one problem. I needed to fill up the tank, and I was not able to find a reliable gas station. I had to drive to Richmond, just a little south of the airport, to find some place that sold gas. Gas in Canada is more expensive than it is in the USA, and is sold by the liter. I drove along Number 2 Road, then Francis Road to Number 1 Road and found a Petro Canada station. I put in about 20 liters, which was not bad for a V6 and maybe 200 km of driving. I drove back to the airport and checked in the car. I noticed a few totem poles before going into the airport terminal.

Checking into my flight to Seattle and then San Francisco, I was not allowed to hand in my checked bag until I cleared the USA customs. I had to give my passport at customs before dropping my bag off. After dropping my bag off, I went to the gift shop and bought some salmon and maple syrup. The flight to Seattle was on an Embraer E120 twin propeller plane. It would be about an hour away from Seattle, and land in Concourse N. I would not need to collect my bag until I arrived at San Francisco airport. I would have to wait until about 2 PM to board the flight for San Francisco.

At 1:30 PM, the flight to San Francisco would board. I had an economy class seat. The flight home was not too long. I arrived about 5 PM. Somehow the flight had misplaced my checked bag, so I had to fill out a form for them to deliver my luggage to my home. I took the Line 292 back to Hillsdale and Norfolk Street in San Mateo, and walk the rest of the way home. It was not too far to walk. It must have been 7 PM when I arrived home. I made some supper, probably spaghetti or something, watched some TV and went to bed.

The next day I drove to work, worked from 7 AM to about 4 PM. I had some maple sugar candies to share with colleagues. My suitcase did turn up at home, a little bit after I had left work for the day.

My next overseas journey would be in late July 2003. Hope you will join me then!

Also, in May 2003, my car (at the time it was a 1997 Jetta with diesel engine) was all paid off and thus free of finance, and I received the title, what a nice early 31st birthday present.

Good night! Bonne nuit!

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illustratedvancouver · 1 year

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Gastown of the 1990s, a realist painting of Water Street and the Gastown Steam Clock by Paul Rupert. Paul Rupert (1946-2013) was a Canadian realist painter who trained under Arthur Lismer of the Group of Seven. From his obituary in the National Post:

Paul obtained his formal training at the school of art and design of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he studied under the late Arthur Lismer (Group of Seven) and at Concordia University. His unique use of the palette knife and oil paints earned him worldwide recognition in such noted collections as: Royal Bank of Canada, Corby's Distilleries, International Bankers Club in Hong Kong, Molson Breweries, Montreal Stock Exchange, Canadian Embassy in Washington, Governments of Alberta and Ontario, Canada House and Ontario House in London, England, The National Gallery, The Claridge Collection, Lower Canada College and many others. Paul was commissioned to paint many of North America's renowned golf courses including The Royal Montreal Golf Club, The Shaughnessy Golf Club in Vancouver, Nicklaus North, Chateau Whistler, and The Augusta National Golf Club.

You can date the painting to around 1994 or beyond, not from the cars which are mostly from the 1980s, but from the Starbucks located at Water and Cambie Streets. This location operated there from 1994-2022, when it was announced in January it had closed permanently after 28 years at this location.

I don't see many other paintings around Vancouver by Paul, and I can't find a record of any major shows he had here, though it is quite likely he did exhibit work here at some point, especially with this poster as evidence, and his work with the Shaughnessy Golf Club. If you spot more of Rupert's local work, let me know!

#Paul Rupert #gastown #vancouver #painting #water street #steam clock #starbucks

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