Archives Photos of the Day: Billboards
John and I are in Kansas City this week and when driving through KCMO, you get welcomed downtown by classic old billboards on rooftops and painted advertisements on the side of buildings.
Vancouver used to have a lot of these until they slowly disappeared due to city bylaws. Now returning around town in flashy digital form, old school billboards around Vancouver are my Archives Photos of the Day.
1900. Archives #CVA 677-80.
1919. Archives #CVA 99-2233. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1926. Hastings & Abbott. Archives #CVA 99-2250. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1926. Archives #CVA 99-2256. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1926. Granville & Pacific. Archives #CVA 99-2260. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1930. Archives #CVA 99-2813. Photographer: Stuart Thomson.
1944. War loan billboard. Archives #CVA 1184-510. Photographer: Jack Lindsay.
1944. Archives #CVA 586-2574. Archives #CVA 586-1950. Photographer: Don Coltman.
1949. VPL Accession Number: 81056
1955. Hastings & Cambie. VPL Accession Number: 82829
1969. 765 Granville. Archives #CVA 447-392. Photographer: Walter Edwin Frost.
Most of the photos in this post were found in the City of Vancouver Archives. Check out their blog, AuthentiCity.
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Rebecca, thanks for your article on billboards in Vancouver – a lot of advertising history was made. Makes me miss the neon signs, too.
If you like Vancouver’s neon, you should check out this upcoming exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver: http://www.museumofvancouver.ca/exhibitions/exhibit/neon-vancouver-ugly-vancouver