Enoch Pratt Library.
1978
National Geographic Feature
The magazine did a cover story on Vancouver and sent one of its photographers, Charles O’Rear, to take some photos. An indication of the magazine’s scale of preparation: O’Rear took more than 10,000 pictures, yet a mere 21 got into the magazine. For a shot of the magnificent interior of the Orpheum, O’Rear had special lights brought in by chartered plane from Washington, DC, but his Orpheum pictures were among the 9,979 that didn’t get in.
