Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome road outdoor black and white Granville Street looking north from Smithe Street on August 24, 1946. The BCER streetcar is a streamlined 1939 PCC car used in Vancouver since 1941. Also visible in the photograph are the Plaza, Paradise, Lyric and Orpheum theatres. Towering in the distance are the third Hotel Vancouver (left) and the second Hotel Vancouver with smoke stack (at the time housing war veterans and their families; demolished in 1949). The popular Silk Hat Cafe is in the foreground on the NW corner. [City of Vancouver Archives; Steffens-Colmer Studios Ltd. photo] Granville Street looking north from Smithe Street on August 24, 1946. The BCER streetcar is a streamlined 1939 PCC car used in Vancouver since 1941. Also visible in the photograph are the Plaza, Paradise, Lyric and Orpheum theatres. Towering in the distance are the third Hotel Vancouver (left) and the second Hotel Vancouver with smoke stack (at the time housing war veterans and their families; demolished in 1949). The popular Silk Hat Cafe is in the foreground on the NW corner. [City of Vancouver Archives; Steffens-Colmer Studios Ltd. photo] |