Sunday, August 20, 2006

Yesterday On 4th Ave


An empty West 4th Avenue

This is not something you would see too often: West 4th Avenue bereft of traffic. It's usually a busy street, but it was blocked off yesterday for Kitsilano's annual Hippie Daze street festival. This photo was taken in the morning, before things got started. The event is meant to celebrate the Kitsilano neighborhood's history for being a centre of Vancouver's hippie culture in the 1960's. Of course the neighborhood has changed since then, and is now very much a young middle-class sort of place.

Below is Kathryn enjoying the novelty of walking down the middle of the street.

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