Comments on: Vancouver History: Prohibition http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html Vancouver Blog Miss604 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:03:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vancouver History: Vogue Theatre » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html#comment-7718 Vancouver History: Vogue Theatre » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:55:46 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1994#comment-7718 [...] owned by the Reifel brothers, the Vogue was sold to a development company in 1987 and would lay vacant and silent until 1992 [...] [...] owned by the Reifel brothers, the Vogue was sold to a development company in 1987 and would lay vacant and silent until 1992 [...]

]]> By: Vancouver Book of Everything » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html#comment-7717 Vancouver Book of Everything » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:58:23 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1994#comment-7717 [...] Everything else is top notch info, from Gassy Jack to the Malahat. [...] [...] Everything else is top notch info, from Gassy Jack to the Malahat. [...]

]]> By: Chris Mathieson http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html#comment-7716 Chris Mathieson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:22:31 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1994#comment-7716 Museum is open Mon-Sat 9-5. The museum itself is self-guided... of course, who needs a guide when you're exploring Vancouver's old city morgue. ;) The Sins walking tour is what we guide instead... it leaves the museum and explores Gastown, Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside. Additional questions, ping me at chris@vancouverpolicemuseum.ca. Museum is open Mon-Sat 9-5. The museum itself is self-guided… of course, who needs a guide when you’re exploring Vancouver’s old city morgue. ;)

The Sins walking tour is what we guide instead… it leaves the museum and explores Gastown, Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside.

Additional questions, ping me at chris@vancouverpolicemuseum.ca.

]]> By: Raul http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html#comment-7715 Raul Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:24:21 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1994#comment-7715 @ Chris - I'd love to do the tour of the Vancouver Police Museum! Only problem seems to be that it's not open on weekends, or is it? @ Chris – I’d love to do the tour of the Vancouver Police Museum! Only problem seems to be that it’s not open on weekends, or is it?

]]> By: BCXS.com - BC Blog Link Explosion Again http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html#comment-7714 BCXS.com - BC Blog Link Explosion Again Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:04:25 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1994#comment-7714 [...] continues her Vancouver History blogging with an entry on Prohibition in Vancouver - “Rum runners in BC would sail up and down the coast, often with tens of thousands of cases [...] [...] continues her Vancouver History blogging with an entry on Prohibition in Vancouver – “Rum runners in BC would sail up and down the coast, often with tens of thousands of cases [...]

]]> By: Chris Mathieson http://www.miss604.com/2008/07/vancouver-history-prohibition.html#comment-7713 Chris Mathieson Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:55:14 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1994#comment-7713 Of course, if you want to know more about this stuff, you should come on my "Sins of the City" walking tour... gambling dens, opium houses, brothels... and of course, lots and lots about prohibition. Long after prohibition, we had some incredibly stringent liquor laws in BC... no standing while drinking, no unescorted women in bars, bars closed for dinner every evening. Of course, you could break all those rules, if you knew where to go... Chris Mathieson Vancouver Police Museum http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/SinsoftheCity.htm Of course, if you want to know more about this stuff, you should come on my “Sins of the City” walking tour… gambling dens, opium houses, brothels… and of course, lots and lots about prohibition.

Long after prohibition, we had some incredibly stringent liquor laws in BC… no standing while drinking, no unescorted women in bars, bars closed for dinner every evening. Of course, you could break all those rules, if you knew where to go…

Chris Mathieson
Vancouver Police Museum
http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/SinsoftheCity.htm

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