Photos of Vancouver (Downtown, Jericho Beach, W 4th, and Kerrisdale) - December 2006 - Part II

The neighbourhood of Kerrisdale has been long recognized as a trendy yet pleasant neighbourhood littered with affluent people as well as students from UBC. There is a feel of being an outdoor shopping mall as major international and national chain stores occupied key locations in the area, mainly along W 41st on the western side of the rail tracks. (Heck, this is my first time touring Kerrisdale on foot after living in Greater Vancouver for 17 years before commencing my studies at York University!)

The fate of this lonely set of tracks (between East and West Boulevards) that carried freight traffic across expensive homes in the west side of Vancouver has been subject to a lot of debate in the past decades. Nonetheless planners at the City Hall still are dreaming of having streetcars running along these tracks. (Pic taken at Kerrisdale)



The section of W 4th between Macdonald and Burrard is becoming the second coming of Robson Street, as hip and trendy stores are starting to occupy storefronts. Fortunately there are still signs of a healthy neighbourhood with local mom-and-pops stores visible in the landscape.

This has to be one of my favourites in the outing. I took five separate pictures and combined them in Photoshop to produce a seamless Downtown Vancouver skyline that stretches all the way to the Siwash Rock in Stanley Park. (Picture taken at the northern point of Dunbar, east of Jericho Beach)

A row of beautifully restored homes on Dunbar and Point Grey, near Jericho Beach. If you don't have around $1.5 million, don't even think about buying one of them! Hopefully things will be better once Winter Olympics conclude in 2010.