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1937 -- Union Steamship Company buildings on the Boulevard.

Left to right:

1. Bathhouse/changing rooms, ice cream parlour, and coffee shop. Later a restaurant under various names; Calypso Room, Whispering Pines, The Parthenon

2. Union Estates Ltd. dance pavilion, built in early 1920s, enlarged in 1937. It burned down in 1971

3. Three totem poled carved by Paul Weenah of Rivers Inlet and Sechelt First Nations about 1927 or 1928. They were removed to Bowen Island in 1955.

4. The tiny building on the right behind the totem pole beside the gas pump was moved by Mr. Art James to Highway 101 in Roberts Creek to serve as his smoked salmon shop.

Photograph by Harry Winn, courtesy the Vancouver City Archives