the Del Mar unmarred...

George Riste RESISTED THE DIVIDE at all costs and his building still stands today in david-defiance of the BC HYDRO dam of a goliath menacing from behind...
Old altruistic George has since moved on to the Great Beyond but his noble and stubborn stance against corporate behemoths will ensure that this centenarian house of clean and happy tenants lives on undisturbed till time immemorial...UNLIMITED GROWTH be damned!

*NOTICE*

This property is

not for sale and it

has not been sold.

Thank you.

The Owner.

DEL MAR Inn [SRO housing]
553 Hamilton Street
OR Gallery [non-profit art gallery]
555 Hamilton Street

[more info on the DEL MAR on blog.ounodesign.com ]

shedding still...

yes-today commiserates no-morrow...

and to pre-borrow is to re-borrow

from the next time for the this time,

from yesterday ever to the morrow...

the last quiet notes...

 When I heard that the Mansion was slated for re-development and its end days are drawing near, I felt that I should find a way in to record a little of its brief history as a communal house for some of East Vancouver's cool musicians...
I was let in on a couple of days when the house was quiet, resting between gigs and practices, and when most of the occupants were preoccupied elsewhere...

I found this bright orange satin cushion half hidden in the over-grown back garden - a pumpkin pretender tossed nonchalantly from a house where all that music will soon fade away...

[thank you, Marita, for letting me in]
[and thank you, Greg Girard and Emily Carr, for the assignment]