It goes without saying that we're fans of Expo 86 around here. We've made 16,088 entries to our blog over the years and the first post ever made was this one, authored February 14th, 2008. Valentine's Day of course. We've been writing a love letter to our city over the past 8+ years and it all kicked off with a look back at an old Expo 86 video.
On this day, May 2nd, in 1986 Vancouver launched an event that would forever change the landscape of the city and its people, and you're going to see a lot of coverage from the media looking back on it today. For our part we'd like to present a slice of the memorabilia we've collected over the years which sits on a shelf here in our office and gets dusted off every couple years. Some have been gifts from people, some were procured on Ebay and others stumbled across at garage sales.
It's laid out here on a framed poster that was given to us by someone who worked at Expo 86 and didn't have room for it in their home anymore.
From l to r:
- Lapel and punk pins
- Salt and pepper shakers
- Cappuccino mug
- Expo Ernie spoon
- Highway 86 spoon (very rare!)
- Keychains
- Linen towel featuring Ernie and more
- Oversized matchbook
- License plate
- 1 day ticket to Expo 86! Gifted to us by a reader
- Archie comic special edition where they visited Expo!
- POP display of 36 pins (very rare!)
- Expo 86 Swatch
There are more items in our collection but these are the best ones.
Happy 30th anniversary of Expo 86, friends!
Oh, and if you want to party like it's 1986 the Museum of Vancouver has 1986 pricing all day today, AND an Expo 86 exhibit filled with a load more memorabilia than we have! Learn about it here.
