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Originally Posted by delboy
I first came here in 1990 and have to say the city is better now. With the exception of the old Robson Street houses that served as stores (I liked them) can't say I miss much else. Unless there were dramatic changes between 1987 and 1990, I don't get it.
Coal Harbour was not there, neither was much of Yaletown. Gastown was worse, the DTES was worse, as was Mount Pleasant and Main Street. Granville Street was an area to be avoided.
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1994-1995 on granville street was dreadful - we used to go to the underground - gay club - and it was like one of the only places there among the sex shops and corner stores and the roxy it was pretty dire and i don't wanna say scary but not pleasant - there were hookers all over richards and seymour - yaletown wasn't much at all had some billiard halls, more nightclubs
as bland and souless as people paint granville now its a millions times better than it used to be it has street life and people which it lacked for a long time
if you wanted late night eats - there was a place on robson and a place on davie and not much else - oh the dennys on burrard of course - granville didn't have any eating spots really to just hang out at
the downtown was different - the clubs and bars were spread out so there was a lot of packs of club goers walking around from place to place - it kind of gave a different vibe than now
i've read about the 70's and 80's - the gay scene anyway - bars couldn't serve alchohol or something but you could bring in your own and they would serve it to you
things are definately getting better
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