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Skyward

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Yesterday I linked to photos contrasting the Vancouver of 1978 to that of 2003. The city's Planning department was a bit too clever in its web design for those pages, and it's not entirely straightforward to flip back and forth between the older and more modern views. So I'm republishing one section of the panorama that shows the starkest contrast:

Both top and bottom, you're looking northeast from the middle of the Granville Street Bridge, right about here. The sleepy little metropolis has turned into a city of glass indeed.

And in the '70s, even the photographs were brown. So to get around that, let's try a black-and-white version:

Freaky.

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