Granville Street Photowalk

I have walked up and down Granville Street in Downtown Vancouver many times and depending on which direction you face, you can either watch the sun set over Granville Bridge to the South or enjoy the view of the snow capped mountains to the North.

The area closer to the Granville Bridge seems run down and sleazy with the occasional sex shop, tattoo studio and pizza place as well as a fair share of empty real estate space. Further up towards Robson Street, it turns into a pedestrian zone also known as the Granville Mall with department stores, shops, restaurants and bars. Granville Street is also a popular for panhandlers waiting for change given to them, while some just sit there with a cardboard sign in front of them, others actually are quite creative and recite poems or make music.

Apparently, Downtown Granville Street has been Vancouver's neon lit entertainment district for decades where cinemas and cinemas lined the streets along with pornography shops, strip clubs, pizza stores and arcades. Many of these businesses have been closed or replaced by bars and nightclubs as part of the city's "clean-up" in preparation of the 2010 Olympic Games.




















During a recent Photowalk with the Vancouver Photowalk MeetUp group I tried to capture some impressions of Granville Street as the sun was setting.