Phantom signs: Grand Forks Gazette
Hand-painted signs on the north and south sides of the Grand Forks Gazette building at 7330 2nd St. advertise both its current and former...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 15, 2018
- 15 min
The Adventures of Sundown Slim
Sundown Slim was the champion liar of the Lardeau. The king of whoppers. A master fibber without peer. He had a fabrication for every...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 12, 2018
- 14 min
Overwaitea in West Kootenay/Boundary
One of the most venerable and unique made-in-BC business names ceased to exist on March 22, 2018 after 103 years. The last Overwaitea...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 1, 2018
- 1 min
Nelson’s Big Orange Bridge to be painted
The Big Orange Bridge will soon be the Big Green Bridge. The new private owner of the span across Kootenay Lake’s West Arm in Nelson...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 31, 2018
- 1 min
Buildings that weren’t: Nelson city hall, 1940
In 1940, Nelson city council was planning to build a new city hall next door to its existing one at the foot of Ward Street. Local...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
Phantom signs: Hume Hotel
Sometime after the Silver King Hotel in Nelson was demolished in 1947, a sign (seen below, circa 1960s) was painted on the side of KWC...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 30, 2018
- 12 min
Hyde, Titsworth, and the Silver King Hotel
A few months ago I was forwarded this tattered but terrific photo, previously unseen (at least by me). It shows the Silver King Hotel and...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 29, 2018
- 7 min
I was a Slocan Valley hippie for the FBI
In the spring of 1973, you might have met a guy in the Slocan Valley named Bill Lane, who was living in his van. He looked like many...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 25, 2018
- 3 min
Buildings that weren’t: Trail hotel, Rossland apartments, 1927
These Art Deco masterpieces, held by the City of Vancouver Archives, were drawn by the firm of Townley and Matheson, who designed...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
Phantom signs: Swift Canadian
Second in a series on signs that outlived the businesses they advertised. This one is on the back of the building at 607 Front St. in...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 25, 2018
- 8 min
Mattie Gunterman and the Williams sisters
The photo below is probably the second most-reproduced image ever taken in West Kootenay (next to R.H. Trueman’s vertigo-inducing shot of...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 19, 2018
- 3 min
Buildings that weren’t: Kootenay Towers, 1957
There is a space between Vernon and Lake streets in Nelson that, near as I can tell, has always been vacant. Several buildings have been...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
The crane in Garland Bay
Last September, a group including scuba diver Brian Nadwidny went looking for a Caterpillar tractor supposedly lost in Kootenay Lake at...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
Phantom signs: A.S. Horswill & Co. and Campion’s Grocery
This is the first in a series looking at phantom signs of West Kootenay/Boundary. I thought I would start with a Nelson building that has...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 15, 2018
- 3 min
Bill Miner’s Nelson double
Notorious train robber Bill Miner had a lookalike in Nelson. This story appeared in the Nelson Daily News on Nov. 16, 1911 and was...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 14, 2018
- 3 min
Bing Crosby in the Kootenay
Did crooner Bing Crosby (pictured below in a Wikpedia photo) hang out in the West Kootenay before stardom? There are several suggestions...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 13, 2018
- 4 min
A girl named Columbia
On Oct. 26, 1892, the sternwheeler Columbia was on the Arrow Lakes, en route from Little Dalles, Wash. to Revelstoke, when a passenger...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 12, 2018
- 2 min
The Rossland Mystery Booster
In 1992, a classified ad appeared in The Mystery Review, a now-defunct quarterly magazine, that read as follows: Put Rossland, British...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 12, 2018
- 1 min
Lost buildings: Last call at Trail’s Union Hotel
The City of Trail bought the Union Hotel (pictured below) and a neighbouring building last year with plans to tear them down and sell the...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 9, 2018
- 2 min
Baker Streets of the Kootenays
When he wasn’t out sleuthing, Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street in London. According to Wikipedia, at the time Sir Arthur Conan...
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