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Cambie decaffeinated

October 4, 2008

The Vancouver Sun reports that parent company Kraft is closing the Dickson’s Coffee near Cambie & 8th Avenue. Thirty employees will lose their jobs, and the neighbourhood loses the aroma of fresh roasted coffee beans. I even noted the coffee scent in a story I wrote 18 years ago. The intersection of Cambie and West […]

Cities, Vancouver

Vancouver’s East Side suffers from The Mohawk

August 10, 2008

Writer Erick Villagomez beat me to a topic that I’ve been a little obsessed about for the last year or so. I began to document the matter in photos last January. I tagged new homes with small, one-room top floor extensions as having “peek-a-boo” rooms. Erick came up with a better label: The Mohawk. Erick […]