Grandview-woodland, once home to Vancouver is Italian and Portuguese this Bora it's a working-class place it welcoming Arts community in 70s and 80s. It's a punk of Vancouver, even earning a reputation as a place of growth customers but in an ever-shifting neighborhood is that still the case?

Only one way to find out that is like this one are perfectly at home in grandview-woodland neighborhood. The Red Wagon Cafe. Boasts a span born and bred using local ingredients from small producers. I think I'll try the footwork pancakes

Well, tell me a little about the history that you've seen unfold over the last 14 years, in business 14 years. Yeah, this neighborhood was a little more Rough and Tumble when I got here. I mean, as you can see around here, there's new developments going in a lot of the old buildings for those in that. But what I like to see too, is that there are still independent businesses in this neighborhood, but I still feel. This is a fairly solid Blue Collar community. So what are they? Some of the favorite places you have within the area Donald's Market which is just up the road. There's I feel like that's

And of the Hub of the neighborhood around here. Carmen is her name. She's a cashier, she remembers almost everybody's name. Oh I know Brad. He lost his points card so many times. Probably nine cards. Are we had issued him already. Thank you so much for thank you dig in

this is good, 30,000 people live in grandview-woodland alone, but it feels cozy with plenty of space to stretch

This is actually one of my favorite Parts here in grandview-woodland. And what kind of people might I have as my neighbor here you could expect to see everything from Young business professionals families. Musicians artists there's, there's a large range of different people. It's very diverse in its own way. So you have everything from your Vancouver special.

Character homes or Victorian homes is a lot of history here, but we're starting to see a lot of Urban Development. So you'll see a lot of condos Townhomes. You'll notice little mom-and-pop shops, a little Pizzeria certain cafes throughout these streets when you walk down a little bit more. And I think there's going to be a lot more people in general moving towards this area just for its proximity to downtown Vancouver to Highway 1 commercial drawing run to the 5th coolest Street in the

Arguably the heart of grandview-woodland. Here, you'll find markets Parks places for kids, and of course, lots and lots and lots of great food.

I don't have a points kind of afraid.

Done and also markets that are no espressos gone everywhere. Oh no.

I'm headed to an artist Collective to learn why this area is such a creative Hub. If you were to sum up East fan art, I would you describe it? I think it's rebellious. It's, it's a little bit different, it's cutting-edge. How is this one working? How is it able to sustain itself in this community? We're not just one business plan. We're a retail space where a studio and co-working space. We also do life drawing classes and pinball tournaments Vancouver's, a hard City. So you just have to be willing to work.

Work for anything. And I think the working class artists that we represent or willing to do it, but if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. So

Talk to me a little of. You might see inside one of these kind of homes, then Eddie, what you'll see is that it's very vibrant. Some of these homes have their original flooring, the cities actually stepped up and they're given homeowners incentives to restore these homes to try and keep a lot of that charm and that character in these homes character homes make sense, right? Yeah, Eddie, thank you so much for taking the time to show us around this beautiful neighborhood. With these amazing houses 1912 is a little bit hard to comprehend. Luckily, I am going to speak to a historian who can

Put all the east Vancouver, history in the context for me, but that does mean I have to bail.

Welcome to the neighborhood. I love it. So Aaron, what part of East Vancouver? Are we actually in right now? What were? I guess we're in the section of East Vancouver. That's more been associated with more of an industrial area in the 40s and 50s. This was, you know, predominately the home of a lot of blue collar workers that especially from Italy or Portugal. It's an interesting that how the neighborhood's changed because now, there are places like this would have been unheard of and some of the factories and little Warehouse

That used to be in this section of town, you know, he's fans. One of the only neighborhoods it makes its own merch. You'll see. T-shirts that have the East Van cross on it. Yeah, and he's van, and I'm from east van and born in east Vancouver. You don't see t-shirts like that to say, straight out of Kerrisdale or anything like that. There's some Vibe, the totally different vibe. Yeah, despite all the other changes in the city, it's sort of staying a little bit routed to its to its to its anchor and to its roots. That way. I mean, we're even seeing it here. We're in. What's typically you say and Industrial part of East Vancouver? Yeah. And we're sipping an espresso martini.

Jeannie and one of the best old Fashions I think of see exactly exactly and we wouldn't be doing this in the 1970s or the eighties. We would be down at the American hotel or we'd be at some Legion Pub drinking some loggers beer and stuff like that. It's my honor to, you know, to serve our community. I live in a community. I work in the community, I serve this community after today. I can really tell that grandview-woodland is proud of its rebellious roots. And while change is on its way, I've a feeling he's fan. Will always have that.

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