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Jervis Street, Downtown Vancouver

The Banffshire (1911), 610 Jervis Street

"This Georgian revival-cum-Jacobean block of flats has an air of 19th-century London about it.
Oriel windows, patterned brickwork, Adamesque ornament, columned doorways, and its Scottish name
lend the Banffshire a convincing aura of the fin-de-siècle bourgeois society exported throughtout the British Empire."

From "Exploring Vancouver. The essential architectural guide"
by Harold Kalman, Ron Phillips and Robin Ward


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Ed Banger 04-Jun-2015 19:08
I lived in this building from 1986 to 1994. My flatmate Bud Luxford and I had apartment 706 - the top-floor suite in the back of the building overlooking Coal Harbour to the North Shore - the "Surrey with Trees" that Bud grew up in and had escaped from. It was about 1,200 square feet with two bedrooms, a dining room and front sitting room, large kitchen and separate bathroom and toilet rooms. We paid $750 when we moved in and $900 by the time we moved out eight years later. A lot of musicians types lived there over the years, Phil Smith from Corsage, Nick Jones from the Pointed Sticks, Randy Valentino from the Modernettes, the guys from Green Apple Quickstep and Grant - owner of Zulu Records, among others. We had memorable parties each Christmas with lots of groovy ghoulies coming and going from clubland - which still existed in downtown Vancouver back then. The infamous Outlaws/The Metro was just up the street on Georgia, while Confetti/Viva was across the street on Pender. When those places closed down the foot of Jervis was a quiet remote corner of the West End for many years. I paid $25 a month to park my car at Barbary Coast Marina across the railway tracks - but it all changed, along with the view disappearing, when expensive highrises started to be built in the area about 1994. This building was also Scully's apartment in the X-Files - as well the setting for many other shows. Great times in a different Vancouver.
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