3895 W 24th, With Video!

What you see now:

The corner looked like this in May 2011:

A year later, it looked like this:

The corner lot is large, and a gardener lived there.

But in the fall of 2008, things changed.  One of the early urban farmers in Vancouver was allowed to take over the south-facing front lawn to grow vegetables to sell.  The plastic hoops allowed the veggies to winter over.  The farm was not kept up for long, and the house sat vacant.

On June 22, 2012 it was torn down.  The video (below) by a neighbour who was passing by also includes some still photos from the interior of this imposing, now disappeared forever, 1925 character and ample home.

Dominoes on West 32nd Avenue

This modest house was built in 1941.  It was situated down the lane that is behind my house.

I was calmly eating my lunch on June 8 when I recognized what the noise was that I was hearing.  After lunch, I walked over to the site, to see that the house was nearly gone.

By 5:30 pm, it was gone.

This is the third house in a row on that side of the street that has been demolished, all three being on 33 foot lots.  Note that the house on the left in the first photo is not identical to the house on the left in the other two photos. 

Two on West 22nd Avenue

The corner of Wallace and West 22nd Avenue looked like this in March 2011:

Here is what it looks like now:

 

The typical storey-and-a-half stucco house on the corner had an atypical chain link fence (likely being replaced by a stone wall), and this house came down first.  The property had been neglected for some years. Here is a view of it in December 2010, a view of the gap when it was demolished in June 2011, and a view during the construction.

The adjacent house was newer, built in 1964, and appeared to be well maintained, but being vacant in late November lighting, it looked quite forlorn.

A neighbour was present on May 19, 2012 when the house was torn down and made a 6+ minute video which you can view here: