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Paris Shoes sold logging boots and ladies shoes to Vancouverites
Paris Shoes at 51 W. Hastings, in Vancouver, possibly 1919. If shoeboxes still looked this beautifully white, you wouldn’t have to have salespeople constantly disappearing into the back. I somehow...
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Berlin’s skyrocketing housing costs and hipster proliferation
The above video by a Berliner complains about Berlin’s influx of hipsters, addressing them directly in its conclusion: “Please stop to face your neighbourhood… it matters if you try to live in...
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Interior design and architecture in a world gentrifying at a surreal pace
In case you think that what follows is an exaggeration, please take a quick look at the recent articles listed below. They are only a small selection from a rising wave of articles on gentrification...
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A friend put this captioned magazine page through my mailbox
This made me laugh pretty hard. Also, courtesy of the ever enjoyable fuckyournoguchitable tumblr: antlers, actual real taxidermy, fake taxidermy, steer skull and cardboard antlers. Meanwhile, as...
View ArticleSettler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More,...
Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. © Vancouver Sun I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as...
View ArticleColonial aesthetics and Ralph Lauren
In a direct line from my earlier post on the heritage hipster style as a settler colonial aesthetic, here is another exhibit in the colonial museum of fashion: Ralph Lauren using genocide-era vintage...
View ArticleCondo as colonialism redux – again
Here’s yet another condo development framed as a modern repeat of Canada’s 19th C colonial pioneer era. It’s called “Venue” and it’s in Whalley, a small town centre within Surrey, a large, racially...
View ArticleDo not work for Mommie Dearest (Craigslist ad)
I’m expecting that this Craigslist Vancouver ad (text at bottom of this post) will get so much abuse it’ll be taken down soon, so I’m cutting and pasting it here. (UPDATE: it’s been taken down, but a...
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