Nye's Gas Station - Vancouver, BC
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bluesnote
N 49° 16.008 W 123° 06.848
10U E 491696 N 5457121
A former vintage gas station in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Waymark Code: WM194BT
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 11/23/2023
Views: 1
Photos taken on 14 October 2023. The clock stands about 15 feet above the street, has a white face, black hands, and Arabic numbers.
The plaque says, "The firm of Townley and Matheson, best known for designing Vancouver's City Hall further up Carabie Street, designed this early brick gas station in 1922 for Captain Percival Nye and his wife Florence. The Nyes ran it and lived in the upstairs apartment. One of the first independent gas stations in the city, it was operated as "Nye's" until 1972. The builder was Vancouver's oldest construction firm, Baynes and Horie. In 1933 this firm also built the one-storey brick service station addition. Florence Nye was one of the first 'vulcanizers' in the city, starting a business repairing and retreading rubber fires. The Nyes were pioneers who arrived in Vancouver in (he 1880s; in 1898 they built one of the frat homes in this neighbourhood, when Percy was captain of the Union Steamship Company's Coquillam. In 2004, the building was rehabilitated through Che efforts of Nye family decedents and as part of a larger development to the east."
Status: Working
Display: Mounted
Year built: 01/01/1922
Web link to additional info: Not listed
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