east 6th & alberta

from peeling paint to crumbling walls of the old house next door...

all in a matter of time...

east 6th avenue

I frequently ride westwards along the lower streets north of Broadway...
along East 6th Avenue between St. Catherines and Ontario is a quiet stretch of low rise apartment buildings, many from the 1960's and 1970's and quite architecturally bland but with panoramic views of the city and north shore mountains - note the "Vancouver View Terrace" apartment complex below...

then the "Picasso", across from the "McMillan", further on past Fraser Street there is "McAllister House", "Landmark Gardens", "Terrace Heights", but not all these apartment buildings are named...

strong exterior decorating tendencies assert their presence among certain apartment dwellers below...

some older houses remain between the apartment buildings and are generally well-kept up...

on the corner of Prince Edward is the "Kimount Club" for boys and girls, on the next block the "Mount Pleasant Lions Manor" and "HITFAR Concepts", a wholesale supplier of cellular and wireless accessories, across from the "New Chelsea Society Lodge"

"The Brewery Creek Building" [with ghost sign for "Fell's Candy Factory] below on the south-west corner of East 6th and Scotia is an earlier conversion of old factories into upscale residential units...

another one next door being saved and renovated into an arts centre...

the block east of Main Street houses "Vancouver West Motors Ltd.", "Hoskin Scientific Ltd.", the "CDC Livingston Bld.", the "Vancouver College of Counsellor Training", and
the grander and well-preserved "Ashnola Apartments" below, built in 1912, with storefronts along its Main St. side and "The Whip Cafe and Gallery" with a sidewalk patio on East 6th...

crossing west of Main Street is more of a mixed-use neighbourhood, with a few run-down rental houses, the old "Teacher Centre", now converted to the "Worldwide Christian Training Centre", wholesale businesses, studios and offices...

deflating rainbow balloons leftover from the Gay Pride Parade, summer of 2009...