29.03.18

Along the No.20 Line: "Nobody is at that stop today, so we roll on to Powell and Victoria Drive. This is Cedar Grove, the main portal to the eastern dockside. Forty years earlier it was the terminus of the Powell Street Line... The center of Cedar Grove is the Princeton Hotel. It's a small beer parlour crammed with people from opening to neon-lite closing. It's the sole oasis providing a glass of beer in Vancouver East. A stream of longshoremen, grain handlers, foundry-men and others from a host of waterfront industries pass through the doors of the Princeton Hotel (CVA). (p.18)

"This is a pretty busy corner, Victoria and Powell. They've just installed the first traffic light east of the downtown core here. On the corner across the street is a large billboard which hides a pensioner's row cabin." (p.19)

A view of the rail yards looking east, perhaps from the roof of the Princeton Hotel, back towards what has now been renamed Hastings Sunrise. (CVA)