Author: KNIGHT, ROLF
Title: Along the No. 20 Line Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront
Description: Vancouver BC: New Star Books, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 155420061X. Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling, remainder mark bottom page edges, previous store's stamp back of front card cover. ; A tight solid book. ; B&W Photographs; 9.6 X 6.7 X 0.7 inches; 220 pages; "In Along the No. 20 Line, Rolf Knight takes the reader on a tour through working class East Vancouver of a century ago.Knight's "through line" is literally a line: the old No. 20 Streetcar Line that ran between downtown Vancouver and the present day neighbourhood of the Pacific National Exhibition. From 1892 to 1949, when it was shut down and replaced by the No. 20 Granville / Victoria Drive bus, the No. 20 line took thousands of Vancouverites back and forth from their East Van homes to their jobs along the waterfront, on the docks, in mills, factories and workshops.Knight's own recollections of growing up in an the East Vancouver waterfront squatter's community near the Ironworkers Bridge, and interviews with East Vancouver old timers, bring the city and the era to life.". Very Good .

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