{"id":84,"date":"2020-02-20T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/7ds.ca\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:59:14","slug":"captain-vancouvers-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/captain-vancouvers-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captain&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/vancouver-walk-abouts\/\">1. Vancouver walk-abouts<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/blog\/image\/blog-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are few occupations that allow people to walk around during the day soaking up what is going on in\u00a0neighbourhoods. After all, most of us spend our day inside our offices. I&#8217;ve spent my fair share in them as well over the years so I know that feeling. I can however, think of two occupations that include a significant amount of walking about\u00a0neighbourhoods\u00a0as part of their job. One is a postal worker, although that may end soon with community boxes and they always seem to be half running so who knows what they are taking in? Then there is my occupation, a professional Realtor\u00ae. Of course I&#8217;m going on the assumption that other real estate agents do &#8216;walk-abouts&#8217; as well in order to hand out flyers and meet prospective clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>So here I go, this is my blog and my first entry into the blogosphere! If you haven&#8217;t guessed its about my &#8216;walk-abouts&#8217; in and around Vancouver.<br><br>Ok before you run in the other direction &#8230; this is not a play by play on each step I take (3000 steps today folks! Aiming for 4000 tomorrow!) Nope, this is different &#8230; this blog is on my observations on what I see, hear and experience in your Vancouver\u00a0neighbourhood. If you ask my partner Amy, she will tell you that it&#8217;s a bit like\u00a0Cin\u00e9ma\u00a0v\u00e9rit\u00e9\u00a0or Direct Cinema as it is known, only in blog form. \u00a0I&#8217;m observing and recording things and events in which the subject and audience are unaware of the cameras presence (or in this blogs case, my presence). Now, one more disclaimer, no it&#8217;s not my own unique brand of\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0watch disguised to get your business &#8216;<em>yes I&#8217;m sure I saw a burglar trying to get into your home Mr. Jones. Perhaps you should think about moving soon?&#8217;<\/em>. \u00a0In a nut shell, think of my blog as Mr. Rogers&#8217;s\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0meets the pied piper (yes your dogs and cats have been known to follow me). \u00a0The only difference is that I leave the living room unlike Rogers and I don&#8217;t blow into a flute like Piper. The rest is pretty much the same when you combine the two together. You get the picture right?<br><br>Ok, so my blog will also have observations from a couple of important people to me. My grandmother-in-law who is a second generation\u00a0Vancouverite\u00a0since 1919, my-mother-in law whom I have come to think of as the counter balance to everything I say. Plus there&#8217;s my team who also walks about the city and there is my partner who is an artist, she will be contributing to this blog and believe me she can see the beauty in things that shouldn&#8217;t be seen as beautiful, like walls with multiple paint\u00a0colours\u00a0peeling off\u00a0<em>&#8220;Ian&#8230; when the light hits that wall just right, it is simply magnificent!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;m sure she will present a whole new perspective from an artistic stand point on whatever topic we decide to discuss.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>On my\u00a0walk-abouts\u00a0there are two subjects that I want to keep updating, well at least in picture form. One is your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/vanfurchildren\/\">&#8216;Fur Children&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0love their pets and they are in truth the highlight of my day so expect photos of your Feline and Fido friends. When I can, I will leave my card and a note to say I have taken their photo and for you to check it out on line. There&#8217;s the wild life as well. Recently I came across a squirrel with a white tail (picture skunk\u00a0colours\u00a0with a squirrel body). No I wasn&#8217;t dehydrated from a long walk. I did see the squirrel that looked like a skunk near East\u00a019th\u00a0and Lakewood Dr. However I will concede that it may have got its tail stuck in a can of white paint since there is a lot of &#8216;renos&#8217; going on in that area. There was also the time when someone from my team was chased by a coyote in the Kits area and there are rumors of a flying parrot near west\u00a02nd\u00a0Ave and\u00a0Trutch\u00a0St., that will attempt to land on your head according to a lady who told us that it had escaped years earlier and now just flies around her\u00a0neighbourhood. I&#8217;m not sure why but I can&#8217;t get my team to go back to that area so you will likely see me there next time! Essentially, I will report on all manner of species (not just human) that I meet on my walks.<br><br>If you read my biography on my web page you will see that I am clearly a techie person. I have well over a hundred websites that are a part of a vast Real Estate Network. This is my business but I promise that I won&#8217;t sell homes on my blog. You can go to my own real estate\u00a0website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ianbrett.realtor\/\">IanBrett.realtor<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/\">CaptainVancouver.com<\/a>\u00a0network to check out homes and get real estate advice instead of getting it here.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>Well at least if I&#8217;m going to promote a home for sale on my blog I won&#8217;t do it in too obvious a way (after all I&#8217;m still a Realtor\u00ae\u00a0and can&#8217;t very well miss opportunities!). If I do find something I want to say in that area, I promise to do something to soften the sell like take video doing something dramatic so that you won&#8217;t really care as much and it will still feel like entertainment to you. Plus I have to say you&#8217;re going to want to hear some of my team and my more intriguing observations that touch on real estate and shall we say the VIP life. There was the time when one of my team was walking through Point Grey when she swore she came across a famous actor or something (she wasn&#8217;t entirely sure)&#8230;there was a whole lot of commotion and security guards and the PR rep. questioned her for just being on that road at that particular time. Unfortunately since she can&#8217;t speak Chinese it all remains a huge mystery to her \u00a0(she probably should have just asked the PR lady) Nevertheless she now can&#8217;t let it go and since she is prone to exaggeration, there is no doubt that the story will take on a life\u00a0of its own and may well be recycled a year or two in this blog, although it may not be recognizable by then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>Now as for where I go in Vancouver, since I&#8217;m\u00a0<strong>&#8216;CAPTAIN VANCOUVER&#8217;<\/strong>&#8230;yes I have registered the trademark so don&#8217;t be fooled by knock offs and please don&#8217;t call me Captain America&#8230;that&#8217;s a super hero and although I like to think of myself as a hero, at least I am to my kids, I don&#8217;t walk around in tight pants and a cape&#8230;.just a fake Naval Captains outfit in bright blue so that no one will mistake me for a real Navy Captain&#8211;Vancouver is a major Port after all. Anyway my territory is pretty much all of Greater Vancouver. In fact my team has walked a couple of hundred kilometers between us last summer alone. So I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll see me at some point. Make sure you say hi! Restarting my walks in a week, so check back then for the next update!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/the-vancouver-special\/\">2. The &#8220;Vancouver Special&#8221;<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Blog-VIS.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What&#8217;s so special about the #Vancouver Special? The Vancouver special is a bit like that relative that you all quietly say<em>\u2026.\u201d how did he end up in our Swedish family?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0You have 50 cousins all with blond hair and names like Bjorn,\u00a0Gustaf, and Helga and then there\u2019s Cousin Jimmy, the only one with black hair, a weird sense of humor and well \u2026the name Jimmy in a family full of Nordic names. He\u2019s family and you know it, but he\u2019s just a bit out of sync., from the rest of you, and that is how I would describe the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver_Special\">Vancouver Special<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver_Special#mediaviewer\/File:Vancouver_spcials_01.jpg\">&#8211;<\/a>&#8211; a bit out of sync. but very familiar.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This week I was walking down a beautiful street in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerrisdalevillage.com\/\">Kerrisdale<\/a>\u2026the\u00a0sun was shining\u2026the cherry blossoms budding. Birds were singing harmonies almost in step with my stride as I enjoy the breathtaking architecture and sweet aromas of spring, and then\u00a0<em>\u2018wham\u2019<\/em>\u00a0I\u2019m hit with it. No, I do not mean the smell of the horse %#** wafting up the hill from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southlandscommunity.ca\/history\/\">Southlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Like a sudden kink in my back after walking up numerous stairs to get to post boxes (<a href=\"http:\/\/marketsnapshots.ca\/\"><em>to hand out my market snapshots in case you are wondering<\/em><\/a>) there it was\u2026smack dab in the middle of rows of gorgeous heritage homes is the ubiquitous \u2018Vancouver Special\u2019. Almost as sudden as my instant displeasure at seeing the out of place home, I was hit for a brief moment with a sense of excitement and this is where the alluring part of my title comes into play. This Vancouver special was calling out to me\u2026almost beckoning me. Telling me why I should give it a second look, why it is the preverbal diamond in the rough\u2014giving me reason to consider why it is truly \u2018special\u2019 among this street of dreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I knew what that \u2018special\u2019 meant\u2026for in that instant the Vancouver Special once thought by me as the ugly duckling of Vancouver home architecture styles had redeemed itself entirely as I looked up from my feet only to realize that I wouldn\u2019t have to climb a flight of stairs.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Its mailbox was at ground level and this is where my view of the Vancouver Special changed.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After handing out flyers to heritage homes some with 10 flights of stairs, the Vancouver Special took on new alluring appeal to me. I suddenly liked them! It\u2019s that same feeling you get when you are not sure you like someone but then they do something to change your opinion of them and instantly you see them different.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We can all probably agree that name \u2018Vancouver Special\u2019 is a bit of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxymoron\">oxymoron<\/a>\u00a0when you look at its design\u00a0aesthetic. It\u2019s not special because it looks good. It\u2019s got to be special for some other reason right? The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes the word special as<em>\u00a0\u201cdifferent from what is normal or usual.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Ok let\u2019s take a look at what that &#8216;Special&#8217; might be, starting first with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver_Special\">Vancouver Special Wiki page<\/a>\u00a0where you will see it described in terms of proliferation and mass production. This doesn\u2019t exactly sound \u2018special\u2019 to me, rather more overwhelming if anything. The Vancouver Special is everywhere. In fact so much so that the city of Vancouver realizing that too many \u2018specials\u2019 were being made decided to implement a little family planning by making changes to the single family zoning regulations in the 80\u2019s with the intent to stop additional Vancouver specials from being built but not before over 10,000 Specials propagated the Vancouver landscape between the period of 1965 to 1985\u2014and that is just in Vancouver. Take a trip across the river and you will see that the &#8216;Special&#8217;, just like morning glory, sprung up in other parts of the Lower Mainland taking over entire streets, growing like a weed that you can\u2019t quite control. I don&#8217;t think there are any statistics on the number of &#8216;specials&#8217; outside of Vancouver but I would venture a guess that there are upwards of 30 thousand or more when you factor in Burnaby, Delta, Langley and other Lower Mainland suburbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I don\u2019t think there is a family in Vancouver that hasn\u2019t lived in a Vancouver Special at one point in their lives and if they haven\u2019t, they most certainly have been in one.\u00a0 My wife grew up in one and when I immigrated to Canada, the first home we bought from the Strand family was a Vancouver Special (BTW&#8230;my parents still live in it)<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When my wife and I have looked for homes ourselves she points them out, dismissing better looking homes as possible contenders for purchase\u2026<em>honey don\u2019t you think that would be a great home to raise the kids\u2014its spacious, functional, and reminds me of my childhood?<\/em>\u00a0I won\u2019t tell you what I think of when she says that but then again, I grew up with monkey\u2019s in my backyard before I moved to Canada so I really have no fair comparisons.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I see my wife\u2019s affinity for the Vancouver special much like a friend of mine who grew up in Alberta. He lives here now but to hear him talk about Alberta, you would think it is like the Disneyland of Canada&#8211; the happiest place on earth. Despite frequent bouts of -40 degree weather and that it is in a state of perpetual deep freeze for 8 months out of the year. If you ask what he thinks of Vancouver by comparison whilst standing in 14 degree January weather, he politely says \u201cAlberta is better.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So like my friend, I allow my wife to live under the allusion that the Vancouver Special is a beautiful architectural marvel.\u00a0 She grew up in a Vancouver Special and all memories are wrapped up in it. The Vancouver Special is a cookie cutter home so she is virtually going back to her childhood every time she steps in one much less looks at one. The Vancouver Special is unique to the Vancouver landscape and is truly a part of the Vancouver Psyche now but not because of the shier volume of them, rather I think the &#8216;special&#8217; is a reminder of a time when Vancouver was not the most expensive city in North America. The Vancouver Special symbolizes a time when everyone had a chance at making it here.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/vs(2).jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A view not lost on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/entertainment\/Artist+pays+homage+Vancouver+Special\/10833301\/story.html\">Artist Ken\u00a0Lum<\/a>\u00a0who built a miniature version of the &#8216;special&#8217; as a commentary on the city&#8217;s cost of living<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/entertainment\/Homage+Vancouver+Special+time+when+housing+still+affordable\/10833301\/story.html\">.<\/a>\u00a0Ken built a Vancouver Special scaled to its property value in 1973, then increased it by 8 fold. What you get is virtually a backyard playhouse.<br><br>My father-in-law actually built a Vancouver Special in 1970, it was his first home.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Blog-vancouver-special.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>My Father in Law in front of his first &#8216;Vancouver Special&#8217; home (circa 1971)<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For a guy like my father-in-law who had come from a home that didn&#8217;t have much money, the Vancouver Special afforded him the chance to build on his dreams. In fact, he talked about his Vancouver Special as a source of pride, but not so much in how the house looked but in how he got the plans for next to nothing, that it was fast to build, spacious, affordable and its box like shape allowed for a degree of customization by him later on. In fact his second house was built in the \u2018Salt Box\u2019 style for many of the same reasons.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By and large it is not known as a pretty house, it\u2019s a functional one that sheltered thousands of young families including new immigrants, like my family, who came to Vancouver during its building boom years. The Vancouver Special was easy to build fast and on demand. Some even went from empty lot to \u2018finished home\u2019 in just three weeks. It also maximized the use of space on the standard\u00a010-metre\u00a0lot so it was great for multi-generational families that needed more living space. The plans were easy to get and only cost $65 from the local planning office, making it a home that was inexpensive and very convenient. The Vancouver Special was in the 70\u2019s what the condo is today to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=vancouverite\">Vancouverites<\/a>, an affordable entry level home for first time home owners.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You can\u2019t build them anymore in Vancouver and it has long served it\u2019s original purpose as a mass produced entry level home. It has though gotten its second wind of late, calling out to a new generation of\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0to use it again by renovating it to give it an updated appearance.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Blog-VIS-Remodel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Original Vancouver Special beside Remodeled Vancouver Special (Right)<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Out with the stucco, metal framed balcony and aluminum window frames. In with timber beams, spot lighting, modern finishing and brightly\u00a0coloured\u00a0doors. What was once an affordable cookie-cutter home has now reoriented itself for the next generation to use it once again as an entry way into the housing market, and that my friends puts the \u2018special\u2019 in the Vancouver Special!<br><br>Check out the latest addition to the Captain Vancouver Real Estate Network offering sellers a\u00a0<strong>VANCOUVER SPECIAL revision package<\/strong>:<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouverspecialsales.com\/\">vancouverspecialsales.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/hollywood-north\/\">3. Vancouver &#8211; Hollywood North<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/van%20news.jpg\"><br><br>Did you know #Vancouver was the first Hollywood!\u00a0You\u2019ve likely never heard of Filmmaker William\u00a0Harbeck. He died on the Titanic at the age of 44 over 100 years ago and was in fact the\u00a0official filmmaker on the Titanic. He also happens to have made the very first film of Vancouver, in 1907. Imagine filming the first movie in Hollywood, California.\u00a0Well\u00a0Harbeck\u00a0did that for us here in &#8216;Hollywood North.&#8217; Incidentally, the first film in Hollywood California wasn\u2019t made until 1910 so\u00a0technically\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0was the first\u00a0Hollywood.<br><br>Vancouverites\u00a0have a bit of a love\/hate relationship with movie making. We know its a big industry\u00a0that we should all support,\u00a0but when you see the street lined with white trucks and a person at the end\u00a0with a safety\u00a0vest ready to stop you&#8230;well you may just get annoyed a little bit. Last year, the Mayor of Vancouver had to release a statement for the\u00a0<strong>Movie\u00a0Deadpool<\/strong>\u00a0because it closed down a major viaduct that went into the city for 10 days. A carefully worded reminder of how much money the film was bringing to Vancouver and that the main actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryan_Reynolds\">&#8216;Ryan Reynolds&#8217;\u00a0<\/a>was a hometown boy &#8211; to try and curb complaints.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtoQQzOoCjY<br><strong>Movie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/deadpool?src=hash\">&#8216;DeadPool&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0with Ryan Reynolds on Vancouver Bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a>In any given day, if your going from one end of town to the other, you will be sure to come across a production set. There&#8217;s even a\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_filming_locations_in_the_Vancouver_area\">Wiki page dedicated to film locations in and around the\u00a0Vancouver area.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Perhaps you\u00a0consider yourself lucky if you are\u00a0making a mint off of a production renting your house or facility, maybe not\u00a0so lucky if you are the\u00a0neighbour.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Kerrisdale.jpg\"><br><strong>Movie Production Trucks line Shaughnessy\u00a0area street in\u00a0Vancouver<\/strong><br><br>All Vancouverites have what I call\u00a0<strong><em>movie-making moments<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;from friends&#8217; that have been extras in movies to run-ins with movie stars and more. My wife has a collection of stories starting with one of her friends&#8217;, whose\u00a0Dad made $500 dollars to turn off his lawnmower when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_NeverEnding_Story_(film)\">&#8220;never ending story&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0was being filmed in\u00a0White Rock in the early 80&#8217;s&#8230;and yes he did try turning it on again the next day&#8230;so did all their\u00a0neighbours.<br><br>She\u00a0personally dodged Dr.\u00a0McDreamy\u00a0when he had a\u00a0meltdown in the parking lot of a bowling alley in the early 90&#8217;s and she was almost run over by an actors golf cart in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vandusengarden.org\/\">VanDusen\u00a0Gardens<\/a>\u00a0for the filming\u00a0of &#8216;Good Boy!&#8217;\u00a0The one production movie moment\u00a0that stands out for her was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joel_Schumacher\">Joel Schumacher<\/a>\u00a0movie &#8216;Cousins&#8217;\u00a0staring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Danson\">Ted\u00a0Danson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isabella_Rossellini\">Isabella\u00a0Rossellini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd_Bridges\">Lloyd bridges\u00a0<\/a>and over 5 of her friends who played extras in the last 5 minutes of the movie. It was her own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jumping_the_shark\">&#8216;jumping the shark&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0moment for watching all movies thereafter&#8230;she said she couldn&#8217;t\u00a0take any movie very serious\u00a0nearly as\u00a0much after that.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Terry%20and%20Cathy.jpg\"><br><strong>My wife&#8217;s &#8216;Jumping the Shark&#8217; moment with the 1989 Movie &#8216;Cousins&#8217;<\/strong><br><br>For myself I have a personal favorite movie-making moment that recently occurred when I was driving through Vancouver. I watch none other than one of my superhero colleagues\u00a0<strong>&#8216;the Flash&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0cross the street with his body guards (even\u00a0Superheros\u00a0need protection sometimes). Got a great Vancouver\u00a0movie-making moment, post them to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?src=typd&amp;q=%23yvrshoots\">#VYRshoots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/TheFlash.jpg\"><br><strong>Sighting of &#8220;The Flash&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CW_theflash\">The Flash TV Series<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Vancouver\u00a0has been used as a filmmaking location for over a century, three years after\u00a0Harbecks\u00a0film of Vancouver,\u00a0the\u00a0<em>The Cowpuncher&#8217;s Glove<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Ship&#8217;s Husband<\/em>,\u00a0were\u00a0also both shot in Vancouver in\u00a01910.<br><br>So why is Vancouver considered a great place to film a movie apart from the beautiful scenery. Well I have it on good authority that the ever present &#8216;cloud cover&#8217; is better for filming, we have some mega studios, serious talent, our scenery is versatile..its close to L.A. studios and our lower dollar at this point doesn&#8217;t hurt either.\u00a0<br><br>By now you might be wondering the topic of\u00a0Harbecks\u00a0first film? Well it was more like a silent documentary of Vancouver streets\u00a0including\u00a0Carrall, Powell, Cordova and\u00a0Cambie, Robson and Davie.\u00a0Harbeck\u00a0set up a film camera on the front of a BC Electric Railway streetcar and started filming the city\u2019s downtown streets where you can see horse-drawn wagons, ladies in ankle long skirts, and men in bowler hats.\u00a0You can see that\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0got bitten by the movie making\u00a0bug with\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/index.html\">Vancouver province\u00a0<\/a>reporting&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>&#8220;many prominent citizens were suddenly stricken with\u00a0kinetoscopitis\u00a0yesterday&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>and reassured readers that\u00a0<em>&#8220;kinetoscopitis\u00a0is not nearly as serious in its effects as spinal meningitis.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><strong>The article observed that\u00a0<\/strong><em>&#8220;the way that prominent citizens suddenly discovered that they had business on the other side of the street and strolled across sort of unconcerned like, when they saw the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinetoscope\">kinetoscope\u00a0<\/a>coming was very amusing to those on the front of the car.&#8221;<\/em><br><br>Can&#8217;t find any reference to what exactly\u00a0<strong>&#8216;kinetoscopitis&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0was to\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0back then but it would seem to be either a joke or a new medical term for something akin to\u00a0<strong>&#8216;deer in headlights&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>that didn&#8217;t exactly take off. Oh well, we can&#8217;t be first at everything!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All this talk about moving making in Vancouver\u00a0neighbourhoods\u00a0means that I really have to\u00a0mention our\u00a0independent\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0movie\u00a0theatres.\u00a0Alas, most\u00a0are now being taken over by developers for their property value or they have surrendered themselves to the digital era and\u00a0to\u00a0mega\u00a0theatres. How people watch movies has changed and the small independent\u00a0theatre\u00a0fast becoming extinct but I have to say I love the art deco design that adorns most of the facades and despite being a real estate Ambassador I do like it when old\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0theatres\u00a0get\u00a0repurposed\u00a0while still keeping their character like\u00a0Cloverdales\u00a0&#8216;Clova\u00a0Cinema&#8217; which served as a frequent backdrop in the TV show\u00a0&#8216;Smallville&#8217; is now a Church.\u00a0I&#8217;ve been in it, and I have to say they have preserved the authentic\u00a0feel of the original\u00a0theatre.\u00a0Metro Vancouver has had its fair share of small independent\u00a0theatres. Most are slowly closing their doors. Here are just a few&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Kits.jpg\"><br><strong>75 years family owned &amp; operated in Vancouver&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yourkeytokits.com\/\">Kitsilano<\/a>\u00a0neighbourhood<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Stanley.jpg\"><br><strong>The Stanley\u00a0Theatre\u00a0opened in 1930 in South Granville is now used by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsclub.com\/\">Arts Club\u00a0Theatre\u00a0Company<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Clova.jpg\"><br><strong>Clova\u00a0Cinema opened in 1947 and shut its doors in 2014. Its\u00a0now home to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossridgechurch.ca\/\">Crossridge\u00a0Church<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/christmas-story\/\">4. Vancouver &#8211; Christmas Story<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3 id=\"103\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.captainvancouver.com\/template_permalink.asp?id=103\">The Worlds Best REALTOR\u00ae &#8230; a Christmas Story<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You&#8217;re expecting me to say that the world\u2019s best\u00a0Realtor\u00ae is none other than me &#8211; right! Well\u00a0maybe,\u00a0but for this article I&#8217;m going to pass the credit on to a real estate professional named \u2018Jo\u2019 &#8211; but just for December. The rest of the year I&#8217;m the Worlds Best Realtor\u00ae.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For my December post it seemed only appropriate that my blog should have a Christmas theme to it. After all, for those of us who celebrate the season, our houses are inexplicably linked to Christmas. It&#8217;s most often the place where we share our Christmas meal together with family and friends. While for others, we display lights and share the joy of the season\u00a0by adorning our house with lights.\u00a0I just love Christmas lights because in South Africa where I was born, it wasn\u2019t really a tradition like it is here. We had Guy\u00a0Fawkes\u00a0day, but that was really about blowing up a house, not making it look attractive with lights. Anyway, I started a website for Lower Mainlanders called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christmashomes.ca\/\"><strong>Christmashomes.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Christmas%20Homes(1).jpg\"><br><strong>Ian Brett&#8217;s Captain Vancouver\u00ae Presents<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christmashomes.ca\/\"><strong>ChristmasHomes.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Christmas Homes lists all the homes in Greater Vancouver that have light displays. If there\u2019s a competition, my favorites are in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookswoodvillage.com\/\">Brookswood<\/a>, Langley where there seems to be a lot of Christmas cheer going on by way of flashy lights, music, and gigantic castles.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgSG1Zlpw68\",\"type\":\"rich\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"embed-handler\",\"responsive\":true,\"className\":\"is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgSG1Zlpw68\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:embed -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0going to be a\u00a0Scrooge for a moment and ask you to put\u00a0aside the Christmas cheer that December brings for just a brief moment. As a Realtor\u00ae writing in a Real Estate blog, I would be remise if I didn\u2019t mention December tends to be the hardest month to sell a home. What\u2019s the reason behind this? Well there\u2019s the obvious reasons&#8230;if you live in a snowy place, not seeing the land under the house is one good reason. School is another&#8230;parents just don&#8217;t like to switch their kids out into a new school half way through the year. Then there&#8217;s the not so obvious which happens to be more on the physiological\/emotional side of things that I think actually\u00a0makes\u00a0selling a home in December harder because of Christmas.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Christmas%20Vancouver.jpg\"><br><strong>Vancouver Archives &#8216;Kerrisdale\u00a0Home&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The problem with selling a home in December in my opinion is that homeowners are\u00a0more likely emotionally detached\u00a0from their\u00a0homes the moment it was listed while Christmas is an emotional event\u00a0that encompasses\u00a0family and finances. If your Realtor\u00ae asked you to de-clutter, likely all the &#8216;personal&#8217; photos are down\u00a0and now you are forced to have one last celebration in\u00a0a\u00a0home that really doesn&#8217;t feel like home anymore.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you still want to live in your home but are being forced out for whatever reason. Well that makes moving all the worse around Christmas&#8230;in fact downright depressing! If you sold and are ready to move, then you are contending with boxes&#8230;and do you really want to pack more kids toys do you.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The truth is, moving is pretty much always the result of a change in a job, divorce, death, downsizing and so on. Realtors\u00ae call it the\u00a0<strong>4-D\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>(debt, divorce, death, diapers). I think there is actually\u00a07\u2019D\u2019s\u00a0but that is for another blog.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are heavy emotions with the reasons\u00a0behind moving and its only emphasized when Christmas rolls around. My wife will tell you that the first Christmas after her Dad died was very hard because she remembered thinking the previous year when he was alive that he would not live to see the next Christmas. She envisioned an empty chair at the Dinner table the following year, only to see what she imagined realized the next Christmas. She said that suddenly all her good memories eating at that table in the front room seemed to vanish with the last image of her Dad carving the turkey. It was no surprise to us that her Mom put the house up on the market a few months later. Selling and moving can be the start of something new and wonderful but no matter how good the reason for moving, it\u2019s almost always an emotional experience.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My best advice for the emotionally burdened December mover\u2026get out town if you can, even if costs you more than you want to spend. This year we went to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/_0yc_VEIzO\/?taken-by=captainvancouver\">Harrison\u00a0Hotsprings\u00a0to celebrate Christmas<\/a>\u00a0for no reason other than a change of scenery and I must admit it was a nice alternative and something I would personally do if I were to ever move in the month of December. It will give you space to breath, think and regroup.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Speaking of extra spending. December also happens to be the month that puts people into debt (another one of the\u00a04D\u2019s). Sorry&#8230;but I did say that I was going to be\u00a0a Scrooge for a bit!\u00a0Even though statistically all\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0are technically millionaires with our housing prices what they are. I think it\u2019s fair to say that we can all relate to Clark Griswold expecting his Christmas bonus to cover his Christmas promises to his family, only to be let down. The bell to the front door of the Griswold house rings and there\u2019s the Delivery guy who was supposed to deliver Clarks yearly Christmas bonus but instead ends up delivering to him a membership in the \u201cJelly of the Month Club\u201d. BTW\u2026the delivery guy is\u00a0<strong>Vancouverite<\/strong><strong>\u00a0&#8216;Keith\u00a0<\/strong><strong>MacKechnie<\/strong><strong>.&#8217;<br><br><\/strong><br><strong>Vancouverite<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Keith\u00a0<\/strong><strong>MacKechnie\u00a0in the Classic Movie &#8216;Christmas Vacation&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Kind of reminds me of a job I had when I was young, before I was a Realtor\u00ae.\u00a0Just before Christmas one year, my\u00a0employer told me that my job title had changed. I thought, wow better\u00a0that than to loose my job, like a sort of mixed blessing. A week later I was called into his office.\u00a0<em>&#8220;Ian&#8230;<\/em>he said,\u00a0<em>I want to congratulate you on your new job.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Nothings changed, there&#8217;s no raise&#8230;\u00a0but you get a new title&#8230;.Merry Christmas!&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Then he gave me my old title back from the week before! Gees thanks! It was the ultimate in Bah Humbug!All this bah humbug about the\u00a04D\u2019s\u00a0and selling homes at Christmas and my own Griswold Christmas story. Now I will turn from Scrooge to Saint.\u00a0We&#8217;ve all heard it said before that Vancouver is &#8216;no-fun city&#8217; and that\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0are lonely and unfriendly. Well I bet there are few cities that offer free kisses under the mistletoe. If your an out-of-towner&#8230;feel free to just kiss anyone\u00a0that happens to walk under the\u00a0<strong>#VanKiss\u00a0<\/strong>mistletoe.<br>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wink\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.captainvancouver.com\/102-blog\/ckeditor\/plugins\/smiley\/images\/wink_smile.gif\"><br><br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/VanKiss(1).jpg\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vankissed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><strong>#VanKiss<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<strong>Elves bring kisses to\u00a0Vancouverites<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Now I&#8217;m an eternal optimist if you haven&#8217;t guessed\u00a0and I&#8217;m\u00a0reminded that Mary and Joseph didn&#8217;t have a home to stay in and that our Christmas story\u00a0was also about\u00a0homelessness and how we all\u00a0respond to those less fortunate. With all the myriad of problems that any homeowner could possibly experience during this time, whether emotional or financial, it pales by comparison to homelessness. There is a staggering 17,000 working poor and homeless people throughout the Lower Mainland and I\u2019m happy to say that many of them will receive blankets and warm clothing this winter thanks to donations collected during the\u00a021<sup>st<\/sup>annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blanketdrive.ca\/\">REALTORS Care\u00ae Blanket Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So how does selling a home in December during the Christmas season connect to \u2018Jo\u2019\u2026the World&#8217;s best Realtor\u00ae? No, he or she didn\u2019t hand out thousands of blankets at the Blanket Drive. \u2018Jo\u2019 happens to be\u00a0<strong>St. Joseph\u00a0<\/strong>the unofficial patron saint of real estate. No, that&#8217;s not a joke, it\u2019s true. There\u2019s actually an unofficial Saint for all of you out there that are having trouble selling your home (not likely in Vancouver) or for some reason need to purge your house from some kind of ghost of Christmas past. I&#8217;m sure it will work for that as well.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Jo.jpg\"><br><strong>EcoJoe\u00ae St Joseph Statue<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The tradition of burying a statue of St. Joseph has been around for hundreds of years but\u00a0was revived in the 1980\u2019s\u00a0when Realtors\u00ae\u00a0began\u00a0burying thousands of small plastic St. Joseph statues on properties that they wanted to sell.\u00a0Probably attributed to the downturn in the economy at the time (as\u00a0they say no atheists in the\u00a0fox hole). You&#8217;ll find a lot of homeowners who genuinely believe that burying a statue of St. Joseph face down in the yard of a home that is on the market, and praying to St. Joseph for help finding the right buyer for the property, will help make a house sell faster.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to the\u00a0EcoJoe\u00ae website (they sell environmentally sensitive St. Joseph statues that dissolve into the soil). There are different versions of the beginning of this legend. One of the most popular theories about the origin of this tradition attributed it to St. Teresa of Avila. The legend is that St. Teresa started the custom of burying a statue of St. Joseph in the land in her quest for a new convent for her nuns. As the order grew and the Church wanted her to open other chapters of her order she needed appropriate land that would be large enough to house the nunnery.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>She prayed to St. Joseph to help her find land that would be large enough and cheap enough for the project and encouraged her nuns to bury medals of St. Joseph in the ground to consecrate it and show the devotion of the nuns to St. Joseph. Eventually she did find the right piece of land and felt that the nuns\u2019 prayers and burying the medals of St. Joseph had led St. Joseph to help her find the land.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>From that point forward it became a tradition for people that were looking for a new home or looking for a piece of land to bury consecrated medals of St. Joseph in the land and pray for help finding a new home when they wanted to buy a new house or a new piece of land. Over the centuries the custom changed and instead of burying medals of St. Joseph people began burying small statues of St. Joseph when they wanted to sell their home or their property.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Another version of the custom of burying a statue of St Joseph in order to help a house sell faster is attributed to Germany where home builders would often place a small statue of St. Joseph or St. Joseph medals that had been blessed in the foundations of new homes. The builders would pray for the new owners of the home and leave the statues and medals in the home to protect the new owners.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>St. Joseph is the patron saint of the house so it\u2019s only natural that burying a statue of him would help the house sell faster, because of his profession as a carpenter and his role in raising Jesus and providing a stable, happy home for Jesus in grow up in he is the perfect saint to pray to when you want to sell your home to a new family that is looking for a safe and happy place to live.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Burying a statue of St. Joseph is unofficial as far as the Catholic Church goes and\u00a0is more leaning towards superstition. There are no stats on &#8216;Jo the Realtor\u00ae&#8217; but even if he manages\u00a0to help the emotionally burden mover &#8216;calmer&#8217; (you know who you are)\u00a0then Kudos to &#8216;Jo&#8217; for being the Worlds Best Realtor\u00ae! Have a Merry Christmas Vancouver!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/vancouver-cycles-sea-to-sky\/\">5. Vancouver Cycles &#8211; Sea to Sky<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3 id=\"99\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.captainvancouver.com\/template_permalink.asp?id=99\">Vancouver cycles from Sea to Sky<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Gran%20Fondo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>#Vancouver cycles from Sea to Sky. The\u00a0GranFondo\u00a0this year started in Stanley Park at sea level and cyclists rode 122 km all the way up to the village of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistler.com\/\">Whistler<\/a>\u00a0an elevation of 1700 meters. Since we proudly sponsored a rider this year, Septembers blog is going to be about Whistler and what it is like to live there. Whistler is approximately a 2 hour drive north of Vancouver on the\u00a0<strong>Sea to Sky Highway<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Islands.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Enjoy the incredible ocean views as you drive, and by the way I have an island or two to sell you if you looking along the way. (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouverislands.ca\/\">VancouverIslands.ca<\/a>)<\/strong>\u00a0 Now if you are one of those fast riders\u2026I mean the Grand\u00a0Fondo\u00a0cyclists, apparently it only took some of them 3 \u00a0hours and 15 minutes to get from Vancouver to Whistler\u2026yes some of them actually drive their bikes as fast as a car It\u2019s really quite exhausting to watch them pass my car!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/ben.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Whatever your mode of transportation though, be it train, car or bike, the biggest pit stop after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horseshoe_Bay,_West_Vancouver\">Horseshoe Bay<\/a>\u00a0is a place called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Squamish,_British_Columbia\">Squamish<\/a>, (S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh)\u00a0known as the Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada. Here you will be greeted by roadside attraction &#8216;Sam&#8217; the\u00a0Axe\u00a0Man, a throwback to the 2010 Olympics. Sam has had a recent facelift in 2014 including a new hat so what you see in the photo below is a little different. Now from a Real Estate perspective,\u00a0Squamish\u00a0is definitely an attractive place for first time homebuyers looking to get into the market, but who maybe can&#8217;t afford the prices in Vancouver. You&#8217;ll likely commute, but the prices are comparable to Maple Ridge so it will be well worth it to move there for those wanting to break into the market.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"478\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Squamish.jpg\" width=\"320\"><br><strong>&#8220;Sam&#8221; The\u00a0Squamish\u00a0Axe\u00a0Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Squamish\u00a0has come into its own over the last couple of years.Its no longer thought of as the pit stop on the way to Whistler. Its become a destination city in its own right with the\u00a0Squamish\u00a0Valley music festival, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seatoskygondola.com\/\">Sea to Sky Gondola\u00a0<\/a>and a lot of attractive activities for the outdoorsy type. Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploresquamish.com\/\">Explore\u00a0Squamish<\/a>\u00a0and make sure that when your there&#8230;take a peak up at the peak of the\u00a0Stawamus\u00a0Chief Mountain. Look closely and you&#8217;ll no doubt see mountain climbers on the various edges of the mountain.Can you see all the hikers in the photo below? I&#8217;ve highlighted one but there is way more if you look closely!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Hikers(1).jpg\"><br><strong>Stawamus\u00a0Chief Mountain in\u00a0Squamish<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On from\u00a0Squamish\u00a0heading north, you&#8217;ll travel 58\u00a0kilometres, or a little more than 40 minutes to get to Whistler where you will be met by another roadside attraction at the very entrance to the town, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inuksuk\">Inukshuk<\/a>\u00a0which traditionally means &#8220;You on the right path&#8221;. You will definitely find that you are indeed on the right path when you spend any amount of time in Whistler Village and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Whistler%20Village.jpg\"><br><strong>Entrance to Whistler Village<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Whistler is considered a resort town and since the Winter Olympics of 2010, it has attracted international attention. From a Real Estate perspective, historically Whistler has attracted investors looking to invest and buy second homes. From 2008 to 2014 prices have gone down drastically and today it is half the value it was at it peak in 2008 &#8211; perhaps a good time to buy! Check out the\u00a0HPI\u00a0price to get a sense of the market over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"185\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Whistler%20stats(1).jpg\" width=\"534\"><br><strong>HPI\u00a0Price &#8211; Whistler 2005-2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If your planning on working in Whistler, and price is a concern, then you should look at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerhousing.ca\/\">Whistler Housing Authority<\/a>\u00a0where you will be able to get the run down on affordable housing and ownership housing options for people who need to work and live there as opposed to real estate buyers looking to invest.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is a trade off when you live in a place like Whistler. You are trading the noise, pollution, and busyness of the city for the quite solitude of the wilderness at the expense of convenience, amenities, and in the case of resort towns like Whistler, over two million visitors a year. It&#8217;s a lifestyle decision to live there but it seems worth it to me when you experience the beauty of the area plus the homes have a certain alpine look to them which I personally like.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Whistler%20home.jpg\"><br><strong>Typical Whistler Home<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019ve mentioned before that my wife is in film and she usually likes to get some b-roll footage here and there when she can. So this time when we went to meet our cyclist in Whistler, she wanted to drive way up the mountain, as far as we could go, in order to take some shots of Whistler Village from the top. So we drove as far as our car would take us where there were a few chalets, row of town homes, a gondola station, plenty of tree and mountain tops as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There were also lots of people on the chair lifts riding to the top overhead to go hiking or mountain biking. My wife and our cyclist positioned themselves looking downward toward the village, underneath the chair lifts where there is a lot of low grass. Our rider held the tripod while my wife filmed (I sat in the car which was smart as you will soon find out). As my wife was blissfully filming away when she started to get waves, heckles, pointing and this strange sort of puzzled look that many of them were giving her as they passed overhead. She ignored it but it kept happening. One chair list rider after another \u2026this is strange she thought&#8230;why do they looked so puzzled at me she asked. So she turned too looked to our cyclist to tell him\u2026.&#8221;don&#8217;t worry, just ignore them\u2026. everyone wants to be a movie star\u201d Only now our cyclist was suddenly a sprinter\u2026sprinting with the tripod pointing in an awkward position sideways and backwards, while he ran in the opposite direction of my wife back to our car. Keep in mind he had just ridden 122 kilometers\u2026then ask yourself what would make a person sprint after that!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My wife looked back up at the chair life\u2026&#8221;are they trying to tell me something\u2026.I need my glasses\u2026.and I should take out my headsets too so I can hear exactly what they are saying,&#8221; my wife said to herself. That is when she realized that the people on the chair lift were not star struck or annoyed by the presence of her camera filming them\u2026it was a family of three black bears eating right behind her. They were either shocked or trying to warn her.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/ski%20lift.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My wife says there was a moment of sheer panic and physical freezing, that is until she scanned her eyes over to the right a bit where there was a young boy who was around 10 sitting on his bike (those bike people are a tough bunch) where he was standing even closer to the bears than my wife. He waited in an almost nonchalant manner, leaning his elbow down on the bike handles as if to say \u2018hurry up\u2019.The bears were eating close to the path, but after a minute or two they moved off the path and then he ever so casually drove his bike past them at what my wife describes as a leisurely pace. I could only image this boy texting his mom to say that he would be late because some bears were on the bike path. Not quite the same as what a kid in the city has to worry about.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When my clients have talked about moving to remote areas past Metro Vancouver such as coast and mountain areas that require ferry rides or long drives, I really want them to think about the lifestyle they would be buying.You can book a Whistler vacation with the same booking agent who booked the Royal Visit to Whistler at:<a href=\"http:\/\/homeholidays.com\/\">\u00a0homeholidays.com<\/a>\u00a0or go straight to looking for a home in Whistler at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/604yourkey.com\/102-604yourkey\/greater-vancouver\/whistler\/\"><strong>Click here for Homes for Sale in Whistler\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>then give me a call at:\u00a0<strong>(604)Your Key\u00a0<\/strong>or email me at:<a href=\"mailto:ian@captainvancouver.com?subject=Whistler%20Homes&amp;body=Hi%20Ian%2C%20I%20read%20your%20Blog%20on%20Whistler%20and%20would%20like%20some%20information%20on%20homes%20available%20in%20Whistler.\"><strong>\u00a0ian@captainvancouver.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/the-colour-of-real-estate-in-vancouver\/\">6. The Colour of Real Estate in Vancouver<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3 id=\"95\">The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/colourofrealestate?src=hash\">#colourofrealestate<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in #Vancouver.<\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Summertime&#8230;&#8217;For Sale&#8217; signs go up, families move in and out of\u00a0neighbourhoods, and its a time when homeowners do their outdoor\u00a0renos\u00a0like exterior painting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have a client with an elderly relative who I&#8217;ve gotten to know over the years. She maintains her Vancouver property in immaculate shape. Her house looks great for its age and she has maintained it well over the years. A while back she called me up and said\u2026<em>\u201cIan\u2026I have new\u00a0neighbours!\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Ok I thought that\u2019s nice but we all have new\u00a0neighbours\u00a0from time to time. Especially since she has lived in the same home in Vancouver for over 40 years, no doubt she\u2019s seen her fair number of homes changing hands. I could sense there was an issue so I thought I would head it off and say\u00a0<em>&#8220;why don\u2019t you go over and talk to them&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0when she interrupted and said\u2026<em>\u201dthey\u2019ve painted their house\u00a0<strong>bright purple\u00a0<\/strong>like that funny looking\u00a0bear they use to have on\u00a0tv&#8230;<\/em>(she meant Barney) and<strong><em>\u00a0orange<\/em><\/strong>\u201d\u2026followed by\u00a0<em>\u201ccan they do this\u201d\u00a0<\/em>and then\u00a0<em>\u201cwill it affect the value of my home?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At first I thought\u2026well maybe the home is just a shade of lavender with cream\u00a0coloured\u00a0trim and it\u2019s not nearly so bad as she is describing it, or maybe its just some sort of strange undercoating like when they have paint that is treated with a chemical that paints on bright\u00a0colour\u00a0so you can see where you are painting but dries white. Sensing the stress I thought I would drop by and see what she was talking about. There it was. Her new\u00a0neighbours\u00a0even bought matching plastic chairs and planted coordinating flowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/purple%20house.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Bright Purple and Bright Orange, this was the\u00a0colour\u00a0choice of her new\u00a0neighbours. I want to highlight the word\u00a0\u2018choice\u2019\u00a0because that is pretty much at the core of how local municipalities see the\u00a0colour\u00a0of Real Estate. All municipalities in the Greater Vancouver area allow homeowners to paint their house any\u00a0colour\u00a0they want. If the property is not being maintained that is another issue, but esthetic choices\u2026well that is subjective as far as municipalities are concerned. The good news is that the\u00a0colour\u00a0of your\u00a0neighbours\u00a0home does not affect the value of your home. For the homeowner, well they are more likely to have a problem selling their home if they have an unusual\u00a0colour\u00a0scheme, but being their\u00a0neighbour\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t affect the value of your home. Unusual\u00a0colour\u00a0schemes can affect buyers who are not able to visually look past it and you may have to be a bit flexible with your selling price to compensate for a new paint job.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A neutral\u00a0colour\u00a0scheme really is best for resell. If your really into\u00a0colour\u00a0I always suggest limited any &#8216;bright&#8217;\u00a0colours\u00a0to doors and trim. Rest assured to any\u00a0neighbours\u00a0living beside the home equivalent of a\u00a0Mondrian\u00a0painting, unusual\u00a0colour\u00a0schemes are more typically found on older homes that have wood siding and siding needs to be painting for upkeep so chances are you&#8217;ll see a new\u00a0colour\u00a0combination at some point in the future. Just cross your fingers that your\u00a0neighbours\u00a0get some advice before their second go around with\u00a0colour.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The choice in exterior home\u00a0colour\u00a0is not entirely a subjective one, its also ties into the style and age of the home. To me, this is where\u00a0colour\u00a0gets interesting because really old homes, as in &#8216;heritage homes&#8217; often have dynamic\u00a0colour\u00a0combinations that look wonderful,\u00a0 while you could apply the same\u00a0colour\u00a0combination on a newer home and it can look pretty bad. In Vancouver we have a lot of heritage homes and many of them are painted in multiple bright colours&#8230;colours that add to their charm. If you happen to have a registered heritage home in Vancouver then you are eligible to obtain a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org\/get-a-grant\/true-colours\/\">&#8216;True\u00a0Colours\u00a0Grant&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0where you can receive a $1, 000 cash grant and complementary paint to restore the exterior paint\u00a0colours\u00a0of your heritage building. As you can see by True\u00a0Colours\u00a0Paint Swatch there are some pretty dynamic\u00a0colours.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/VC-colours-778x1024(1).gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/vancouver%20city%20heritage%20homes.jpg\"><br><strong>Fred Welsh House, 144 West\u00a010th, Vancouver<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When I walk around Vancouver, it seems that the older the homes the more you can get away with when it comes to &#8216;wild\u00a0colours&#8217;. I use to live in Ontario in a small town between Hamilton and St.\u00a0Catherines\u00a0called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimsby.ca\/\">Grimsby<\/a>. It\u2019s not a town that is known for too much but it has an interesting history that relates to some of their heritage homes called<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Painted_ladies\">\u00a0\u201cPainted Ladies\u201d<\/a>, a term first used in San Francisco to describe Victorian and Edwardian homes and buildings painted in three or more\u00a0colours\u00a0that embellish or enhance their architectural details. Just a side note for Vancouverties&#8230;the Painted ladies of\u00a0Grimsby\u00a0sell in the 300 thousand dollar range.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Painted%20ladies3.jpg\"><br><strong>Painted Ladies in\u00a0Grimsby\u00a0 &#8211; Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/18441_269305530660_2072340_n.jpg\"><br><strong>Grimsby\u00a0Beach Painted Lady &#8211; Then<\/strong><br>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>These particular homes were built around 1870 as summer cottages for pilgrims making their yearly summer trip to what is called a\u00a0Chatauqua. There are still\u00a0Chatauquas\u00a0today, mostly in the USA, and they are now more about education and philosophical pursuit than religion. The painted ladies of\u00a0Grimsby\u00a0were actually built with bits and pieces of wood including wood taken from old boats and they had a lot of fret work on them which is punctuated by\u00a0colour\u00a0as you can see in the photos. Perhaps these pilgrims painted their homes in these bright\u00a0colours\u00a0to reflect how they felt&#8211;excited, happy, hopeful about the religious revival spirit of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimsby.ca\/Learn\/chautauqua-history.html\">Chatauqua\u00a0<\/a>community. As time went on the religious aspect of the meeting place became more known as a beach destination for summer fun. Interesting, the same friend in this story used to go to\u00a0Grimsby\u00a0Beach as a teenager in the 1920&#8217;s and she remembers the painted ladies well. Today, these homes are still there only now they are nestled among newer homes. Its not a beach destination like it used to be and I really only came across the homes when I went on a bike ride with my kids one day. Believe me the sight of seeing those homes after driving my bike through\u00a0neighbourhoods\u00a0filled with newer homes was quite a rare find, it soon became our bike trip destination.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A couple of weeks after my first phone call from my friend she called me again to tell me that her garbage bins were mysteriously making their way back into her garage\u2026she suspected her new\u00a0neighbours. The\u00a0neighbours\u00a0with the purple and orange house. I asked her &#8216;why do you think they painted their house such an\u00a0unsual\u00a0colour? Her answer, they&#8217;re happy, friendly people and I think they just like to express that with their home. So I guess you never really know\u2026in this case it was less about\u00a0colour\u00a0expression and more about expressing the way they felt.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you feel inspired in anyway to buy a heritage home in Vancouver. The best place to start your search for available heritage homes on the market is at<br><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouverheritage.com\/\"><strong>VANCOUVER HERITAGE.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/moving-flowers\/\">7. Moving to Vancouver &#8211; Flowers<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3 id=\"91\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.captainvancouver.com\/template_permalink.asp?id=91\">Moving your flowers with you<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to leave your heritage flowers behind when you move. This month I spent a lot of time in East Van and I added another website to the Your Key Series on the Captain Vancouver Real Estate Network for East Van called\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0luv\u00a0east van (<a href=\"http:\/\/yourkeytoeastvan.com\/\">YourKeyToEastVan.com<\/a>). \u00a0How does this bring me to my next posting on Flowers in the family? Well East Van is right near Burnaby which makes me think about my wife&#8217;s grandmother because she has lived there for over 50 years. I visit her frequently and in the spring her Hydrangeas start to bud. Then again pretty much all of the other cities in the lower mainland\u00a0neighbour\u00a0Burnaby so maybe I&#8217;m making a leap here. Either way when I think spring in Vancouver I think hydrangea-grandma-Burnaby and the closer I am to seeing Burnaby combined with spring..I think Grandma Marion! It doesn&#8217;t matter in what order or if it make sense to you..just go with it. It&#8217;s one of those memory association things we all get.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/balkan%20street(1).JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Balkan Street Home where the original hydrangea was located.<\/strong><br>\u00a0So the story of the family hydrangea goes like this. My father-in-law bought this for his grandmother Jesse (Grandma Marion&#8217;s Mother) when he was 10 years old. They lived on Balkan Street in Vancouver. In 1969 my father-in-law&#8217;s mother moved to a new house in Burnaby where she remains today. \u00a0According to my wife this hydrangea has been the backdrop, centerpiece and side piece of every family photo possible, for example, here is my wife&#8217;s aunt from Holland posing beside the table with the same &#8216;dried&#8217; hydrangea. Now I know what you are looking at and thinking! Not one to deflate your day, those aren&#8217;t fake flowers&#8211; I assure you! They are real, genuine, and the same flowers from the family Hydrangea. Although they may not look real-they are! I have to say one thing being Captain Vancouver and all..I sure like the nautical theme on Auntie Mini&#8217;s shirt and at this moment I&#8217;m glad Auntie Mini lives an entire ocean away.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Flower%20Mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Auntie Mini posing with the hydrangea<\/strong><br>\u00a0Anyway the plant lived in the same spot for 25 years facing west and then was uprooted and moved on the same property to its current spot facing south. I&#8217;m assuming that the move is due to Hydrangeas being more of a shade plant-who knows, but the family photos have moved right along with the plant.<br>\u00a0Back to the Hydrangea.this posting is about heirloom flowers (ok your still looking at that photo aren&#8217;t&#8217; you..come on stick with me here). Great-grandma Jessie has long since passed (as a side note she lived in Burnaby until 108 years of age) and her grandson who gave it to her has passed on as well, but the Hydrangea that was given as a gift from a 10 year old boy to his grandmother is still with us. So my wife is going to attempt to take a cutting of the Hydrangea that grew in Burnaby that was a cutting from the first plant on Balkan street and replant it in Langley at my parents&#8217; house where we know it will live for at least another 20 years under the care of my parents who have the green thumbs in our family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/HYDRANGIA-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Grandmas Hydrangea<\/strong><br>\u00a0My wife is documenting the clipping here and next year we will transfer it from the container to the ground. In truth the family Hydrangea looks like it has seen it&#8217;s last years, it used to be much fuller when we look at the old photos and compare it to how it currently looks so we hope this will work. \u00a0Our intention is to save it before it just stops blooming. The longer term goal is to eventually take some clippings from the Langley plant and give to the great-great- grandchildren who we know in time will move about the Lower Mainland and maybe even out of the province&#8211; as a way to always stay connected in some way. In case you are even more amateur at gardening than us, &#8220;heirloom&#8221; is defined by age in this case that might be any plant that originated before 1951 before Hybridization became popular or for some the definition is met if the plant is open-pollinated and was grown in an earlier era. Our family Hydrangea was given around 1950 which puts our plant at 65 years. We asked around.checked out the\u00a0UBC\u00a0botanical garden forum, hopefully bought the right stuff and have the right info. and now we are ready to go! Check back in to this blog for updates!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/HYDRANDIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>March 2015 &#8211; Langley<\/strong><br><strong>***UPDATE:\u00a0June 2016<br>Well Grandmas Hydrangea was transplanted from the pot to its new plot at my Mom&#8217;s house in Langley where it is being loving cared for. We weren&#8217;t sure it would bloom so fast but it did! Here&#8217;s hoping it will bloom for many more years!<br><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/vancouver-wet-coast\/\">8. Vancouver &#8211; Wet Coast<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3 id=\"97\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.captainvancouver.com\/template_permalink.asp?id=97\">Vancouver the &#8216;Wet Coast&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/keep%20vancouver%20wet.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>#Vancouver &#8216;the Wet Coast.&#8217; The joke goes like this\u2026a tourist arrives in Vancouver on a rainy day. He gets up the next morning and it&#8217;s still raining. In fact, it&#8217;s still raining three days later. He goes out to supper and sees a young kid. Out of despair, he asks, &#8220;Hey kid, does it ever stop raining around here?&#8221; The kid says, &#8220;How do I know? I&#8217;m only six.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Well the rain has finally come after a long dry summer that actually lead to water restrictions. Summer certainly went out with a bang in 2015. We got more rain in four days than the whole summer and to sum it up a bunch of trees came down knocking out power for days for vast areas in Metro Vancouver. Ah, it seems like only yesterday I was eating a well-deserved ice cream cone at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tickleberrys.com\/\">Tickleberry\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0in Okanagan Falls complaining about the 35 degree heat (I deserved it only because it was hot and for no other reason).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/blog1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Growing up in a hot climate I try to comfort myself by calling Vancouver rain \u2018liquid sunshine\u2019, while my Father-in-law used to say \u201cVancouver is like a rain forest\u2026warmer with lots of rain\u2026if the climate wasn\u2019t so mild we would move.\u201d Vancouver gets lots of rain which we joke about all the time calling the west coast \u2018the wet coast\u2019 and so on. Delusional perhaps. I personally love the rain. Its fresh and gives us clean streets and green green\u00a0grass.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Speaking of rain, last year my wife was walking down\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robson_Street\">Robson Street in Vancouver<\/a>, as you know Robson Street is a busy downtown street and known as the fashion district of Vancouver. Perhaps it was too crowded but she picked up on the conversation in front of her and relayed it to me later that night. It was clear to my wife from the conversation that one seemed to be a local\u00a0Vancouverite, while the other a visitor. \u201cYou have to move your umbrella to the other side when walking past people, then back and forth as people walk by,\u201d said the\u00a0Vancouverite. \u201cIt must not be angled to avoid getting in someone\u2019s eyes, and you need to move it up and down.\u201d Like Mary\u00a0Poppins, asked the visitor? \u201cYes,\u201d said the\u00a0Vancouverite. \u201cIt can be a challenge but it is proper umbrella etiquette for Vancouver!\u201dThe\u00a0Vancouverite\u00a0proceeded to show the visitor a well-choreographed umbrella dance that oddly managed to keep them both covered while being ever so mindful not to poke someone\u2019s eye out or dislodge them from their path.The visitor looked a bit shocked like she was being scolded for not knowing this before\u2026so did my wife, a 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0generation\u00a0Vancouverite\u00a0herself, who has practically been genetically predisposed to tolerate vast amounts of rain.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"443\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/mary.jpg\" width=\"324\"><br><strong>Vancouverite\u00a0early 1900&#8217;s \/ Vancouver Archives<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s because she grew up in the\u00a0burbs\u00a0where the sidewalks are not so crowded that she has never heard about umbrella etiquette. Her \u2018wet coast\u2019 experience didn\u2019t include umbrellas but rather wet socks from walking to school and being squeezed off the sidewalk by her brother and his best friend. They forced her to walk in the puddles all the way to school or face walking alone. She opted to be included (peer pressure can be nasty) over dry socks. You can image that since Vancouver gets 161 rainy days per year she spent the majority of the school year sitting in class with soaking wet socks.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Since overhearing the umbrella etiquette conversation on Robson St. my wife has become more than a little cognizant of umbrella etiquette especially since our umbrellas are oversized and bare our corporate logo. She started saying\u2026\u201dI\u2019m a big believer in brand awareness but we don\u2019t want our logo embedded in someone\u2019s eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hard to believe that I had forgotten that conversation, but I had, until the big storm of 2015 hit. That is when the umbrella etiquette reminder came out of the closet along with the rain gear and winter coats. Pack the car kids! \u00a0We&#8217;re going to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.pne.ca\/\">PNE<\/a>\u00a0on the stormiest of the year! August 29, 2015! That&#8217;s when BC got more rain in four days than the whole summer! Personally it felt more like a huge wind storm than a rain storm but again maybe that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m just use to lots of rain.Take a look at the screen shot below of those few days. It shows the rain accumulation starting at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Weather%20BC.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My family and I decided to take the\u00a0PNE\u00a0(Pacific Northwest Exhibition) up on their offer of free entrance into the fair mainly because the weather forecast called for a few hours of sunshine before the storm was predicted to make its grand entrance to Metro Vancouver. Ok it was mostly my idea\u2026never one to turn down something free (I\u2019ll pass the savings on to you). So we packed the car with our coats and umbrellas and off we went. Two oversized golf-like umbrellas and four people. Already the numbers didn\u2019t line up and one of us was considerably taller than the rest. To make matters worse, it would appear that there are a lot of other fiscally aware\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0out there and they all seemed to converge on the\u00a0PNE\u00a0at just the same moment that the gates were open for free which coincidentally was around the time the storm hit! I\u2019m not sure if the looks we got from people were out of jealousy that we actually had umbrellas or if we were contributing to what New Yorkers call umbrella rage. I wanted to remind them of what Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in \u2018The Philosophy of Umbrellas,\u2019 \u201cUmbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them.\u201d We opted to take the umbrellas down rather than dodge, duck, and twirl our umbrellas around hundreds of\u00a0PNE\u00a0pedestrians. There would be no sympathy for the umbrella owner, just wet hair.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/umbrella(1).jpg\"><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I admit I hadn\u2019t a clue about umbrella etiquette and from what I did know it all seemed too much to orchestrate the thing around people, during a storm, while balancing\u00a0PNE\u00a0food &#8211; believe me it can\u2019t be done! According to the \u2018experts\u2019\u2026whom shall remain deliberately nameless, umbrellas expand our personal space and the room we take up on the sidewalk. Apparently most of umbrella etiquette revolves around this. For\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0though who live with a lot of rain, I believe that umbrella etiquette is only half of the issue we face. There&#8217;s the cars that drive through water\u00a0<strong>splashing pedestrians<\/strong>, and there are\u00a0<strong>puddle pushers<\/strong>\u00a0(those are the people who force you to walk through puddles so they can remain dry and comfortable)\u00a0<strong>awning hogs<\/strong>&#8230;typically a two side by side set-up, most often they act unassuming and and deep in conversation, but we really know what they are doing, there&#8217;s the\u00a0<strong>eye poker\u00a0<\/strong>who is usually found in sidewalk sheds, and the worst offender&#8230;<strong>&#8216;the umbrella dripper!&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0An individual who will blatantly cart their umbrella around with them instead of using an umbrella stand lest it be stolen, while they drip water off the tips of the umbrella onto the floor so that some poor unsuspecting real estate agent (me) will have a slip and fall behind them!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/umbrella(2).jpg\"><br><strong>A more thoughtful &#8216;umbrella-user&#8217; following etiquette!<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I could go on and on but instead of going through a list of umbrella rules, I\u2019ve decided to take the lead on this one and create some pictorial\u00a0infographics\u00a0designed to help\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0with umbrella etiquette and rain rage&#8230;.which is coming soon so stay tuned and return here in a couple of weeks!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When we load up the pictorials you are free to copy, paste, distribute as you wish!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/vancouver-going-to-the-dogs\/\">9. Vancouver &#8211; Going to the dogs<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-full-content\"><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3 id=\"96\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.captainvancouver.com\/template_permalink.asp?id=96\">Vancouver is going to the Dogs!<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/lostpet.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>#Vancouver is going to the dogs! If there\u2019s one common feature to all\u00a0neighbourhoods\u00a0it has to be\u00a0the family pet. Unfortunately there is one other common feature that I see a lot of when I\u2019m out and about in different Vancouver\u00a0neighbourhoods\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0missing pet posters. I have often wondered just how effective these posters on utility poles really are. Often hand written by kids and put up months ago, it\u2019s hard to tell if the pet was found or if the poster was just left there by some mom not wanting to dare take it down. I doubt many people bother to look at them anymore.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I\u2019ve had my own experience with a lost cat called\u00a0Smokey.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Smokey\u00a0wasn\u2019t one to stay home for long and it seemed that his trips out were longer and longer, sometimes he wouldn\u2019t even come home at night. This stressed our kids out but we took a degree of solace in knowing that we would eventually hear the pet door flap as he came home, then we would feel a bit more relieved. What we didn\u2019t know about\u00a0Smokey\u00a0was that\u00a0Smokey\u00a0didn\u2019t really consider us her primary family anymore, even though we bought him, fed him, and paid for his vet bills\u2026this didn\u2019t seem to matter to\u00a0Smokey\u00a0much. How did we find out\u00a0how\u00a0Smokey\u00a0felt about us? Well for one thing\u00a0Smokey\u00a0would\u00a0 go on walks with us. He loved this and we got a laugh out of how it looked to have a cat follow us with our dog on walks. I would add that these were long walks.On one particular walk with\u00a0Smokey\u00a0during a lovely summer evening we passed by a number of other families in the\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0and one by one each of them would call out to\u00a0Smokey.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"446\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Smokey.jpg\" width=\"307\"><br><strong>&#8220;Smokey&#8221; the\u00a0Neighbourhood\u00a0Cat<\/strong><br>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cHi\u00a0Smokey\u2026yelled\u00a0a lady from her veranda. We even passed an entire family and overheard the child say \u201cmom there\u2019s our cat with those people\u201d, but the kicker for us was when we passed by what appeared to be a rather creepy looking fellow with his head down and his hoodie pulled over, he mumbled \u201cHey\u00a0Smokey\u201d, as he passed by us. This was the moment we realized our cat wasn\u2019t\u2019 our cat but was instead\u00a0the\u00a0\u2018neighbourhood\u00a0cat.\u2019\u00a0 One day we got a call from a\u00a0neighbour\u00a0that had accidently hit\u00a0Smokey. He told us that\u00a0Smokey\u00a0was in the process of dying that that he would wait with\u00a0Smokey, till we got there.\u00a0Smokey\u00a0died in my arms at the local vet, but it felt good to know that the\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0cared for our cat, as much as we did.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Pal(1).png\" width=\"405\"><br><strong>Me and my\u00a0first dog, &#8216;Pal&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Pets have been a part of my life since I was able to walk and I must admit on the most rainy and lonely days when I&#8217;m walking about in a Vancouver\u00a0neighbourhood, I can always count on a cat to come up to me to say hi or a dog to bark, and or try to get my attention with a stick. I repay the hello with a pat to the head provided that I don&#8217;t get scratched back or bitten,\u00a0and often take a photo of the animal for my photo blog on Vancouver\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0pets. I took a poll for the name (well just my kids and wife) and we decided on &#8220;Vancouver Fur Children&#8221;. If you haven&#8217;t figured out what it means&#8230;.well its basically children with fur. The photo\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverfurchildren.com\/\">blog is on its way<\/a>. We hope that it will not only be a collection of great Vancouver\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0pets but also a great resource for missing pets.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/file\/FUR%20CHILD11.jpg\"><\/a><br><strong>Vancouver Fur Children.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Till then you can see some of the photos my crew and I have taken at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vanfurchildren?src=hash\">#vanfurchildren<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Vancouver is a pet city fur-sure (really no pun intended I promise).We just had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petapaloozawest.com\/\">Pet-a-palooza\u00a0in\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/yaletowninfo.com\/\">Yaletown<\/a>, billed as the\u00a0Westcoast&#8217;s\u00a0largest pet festival and Vancouver&#8217;s first cat cafe is coming to town in the fall of 2015 called the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catfe.ca\/\">Catfe<\/a>. Plus I&#8217;ve seen more and more services for dog owners\u00a0poping\u00a0up around town, offering alternatives to Kenneling, dog sitting, walking and pampering for pooches. Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogtaxi.org\/\">Dog Taxi<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/dog%20taxi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is actually a study that says that 60 percent of\u00a0Vancouverites\u00a0own a pet, yet finding pet friendly condos can still be a challenge, although that&#8217;s changing.\u00a0Some of\u00a0the exceptions to that is Polygon&#8217;s\u00a0Avedon\u00a0Tower in Vancouver&#8217;s South Granville which\u00a0has a dog walking area that circles the complex, and\u00a0Burrard\u00a0Gateway by Reliance has pet amenities including a dog washing area while the\u00a0&#8220;Beasley&#8221; in\u00a0Yaletown\u00a0has a\u00a0\u201cwoof top\u201d patio for the dogs in\u00a0residence there.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/captainvancouver.com\/db\/Blog\/image\/Beasly%20dog%20deck.jpg\"><br><strong>The &#8216;Beasley&#8217; &#8211; Woof Top Patio<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Captain\u00a0Vancouvers\u00a0Condo website\u00a0<strong>&#8216;CONDO<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>JUNGLE&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0usually has a number of condos listed that are pet friendly.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.condojungle.com\/\">Condo Jungle<\/a>\u00a0is a great website if you are searching for a pet friendly building because it lists condos for sale by building. All you need to dig a bit (just like digging for a bone).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Without question, &#8216;Vancouverites&#8217; love their pets. You can see the evidence of that everywhere and I don&#8217;t mean the kind of evidence on the ground.\u00a0So if you see a cool\u00a0neighbourhood\u00a0pet &#8211; take a photo! Let us know where you took the photo and post it to\u00a0hashtag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vanfurchildren?src=hash\">#vanfurchildren<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vancouverinternet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}