Local designer Alanna Munro launched a project that you should check out. Her locallettering.com site is a place where she's showcasing some illustrations of the hand-lettered signage that's often applied with gold paint on the front of apartments in Vancouver. Looking at these images below, you'll know the ones we're talking about. Heck, you might even live in one of them!
Have a look at the full collection and the map HERE, and consider contriubting to the project as Alanna's encouraging people to do. Also, if you want to own some of these she's now selling a few as a collection of postcards HERE.