The corner of Main Street and 10th Avenue has remained virtually unchanged (except for the tenants and a paint job) since the late 1950s and possibly longer.
Buildings like these, as plain as they are, give Mount Pleasant an authentic charm, which is rapidly disappearing from the Vancouver landscape.
John Bentley is an architectural photographer who has photographed the inside and outside of thousands of buildings around Vancouver. Using images from the Vancouver Archives he offers a glimpse of the past and present on his site Vancouver Now & Then.
