tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post5842375679129362896..comments2023-10-28T01:08:17.601-07:00Comments on David Talks/The Berner Monologues: LITTLE MOUNTAIN MODEL WRONGDavid Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post-22850153913259428242009-08-19T11:46:04.654-07:002009-08-19T11:46:04.654-07:00People tend to forget that before he was premiere,...People tend to forget that before he was premiere, Gordon "Suds" Campbell was mayor of Vancouver, and one of the biggest toadies local real estate interests have ever been blessed with. If you put up a timeline showing Vancouver's transition from sleepy, bohemian lumber town to sterile megalopolis (without ever passing through cultured cosmopolitanism in between) the tipping point would be right around the start of his tenure as mayor.<br /><br />I don't mean to bad rap a town I no longer live in, and believe me I thoroughly enjoy hanging out up there with old friends and colleagues when I come up to play jazzfest, but Vancouver really apalls me in what it's become. This last trip I stayed in the 7th and Oak area, a neighborhood I lived in for a number of years in the 70s in various cheap-but-ramshackle gorgeous old Victorian houses. All but a half dozen or so of those historic structures have been demolished and replaced by ugly, expensive and often leaky condos.<br /><br />The architectural rape of Vancouver is one of the great untold stories of the city, and Gordo and his Visigoths led the charge when it was happening.John Dohenyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13904152411585477081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post-31960388715473815582009-08-19T10:34:55.247-07:002009-08-19T10:34:55.247-07:00Holborn would be in a better state to finish what ...Holborn would be in a better state to finish what they've started were they not to contribute so much moola to Liberal coffers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com