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58-49 : Station Square Burnaby
This is the Station Square area of Burnaby from 1958. You get a great view of the Ford Motor Plant, which has several of it’s own posts. The major street just below the Ford Plant is Kingsway. To the right of the Ford Plant you see Silver Avenue, McKay Avenue and Willingdon Avenue.
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Looked at this pic today and then went to Google maps to see that small row of buildings where Royal bank was and now is a Sleep Country is still there. Nothing much else is…save for the Cemetary and Central Park! Wishing the picture went a little further east so we could have seen the Digney speedway at Macpherson and Irmin and where Metrotown sits and the Simpson Sears store in its heyday! Next to Ford was Nabob with the bill bords of him sitting drinking coffee, also Kelly Douglas foods now known as Real Canadian Superstore.
I was walking around this area in the late 80’s and went into the Ford plant…there was a huge flywheel that went down below the ground floor and the boiler for the steam driven belt system to run the machinery. It was dark and sure wish I went back and took some pictures! Dad told me the Ford plant switched to Tanks during the war and they used to take the streetcar to the speedway after the war. It ran along Beresford where the Skytrain runs now.
I worked in that building from 1980 – 1982. It was GE Sylvania Lighting at that time. But, I remember something about it being used during WW2 for … tanks???
I worked at this Ford plant in 1961-62 – nice memories of some very special people.
Oh wow! Very detailed.
I can see two Nabob Foods buildings. Wonder if they roasted coffee beans there.
Ford must have kept tractor parts, for there are around 50 tractors on the back lot.
There is the Astor Hotel, where one could have a pint of beer and gaze at forbidden fruits.
At least the old Royal bank and smaller side buildings still there, as of today.