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Pa^»c 4 West Vancouver Historical Society January 2004 Dundarave’s Sidewalks -By Peter Hall The 2400 block of Marine Drive houses Dundarave’s commercial district. The roadway is wide with three lanes on each side separated by a planted meridian. The sidewalks are a generous 16 feet wideâ€"except for two short stretches where they are only 6 feet. One is on the south side fronting on 2466/2474 (which includes Jim’s Hardware) and the other is on the north side fronting on 2417/2427 (The Dundarave Cafe and adjacent premises). Why are these stretches so much narrower than the rest? We can’t be sure about the south side, but in an interview with the late Ted Baynes, who came to West Vancouver in 1939 and was active in municipal affairs serving on Council and the Planning Commission, he related the story of why there is that narrow strip on the north side. In earlier times this strip fronted on the building variously known as the Conservative Hall, the Dundarave Hall, The Palms dance hall and Sager’s Maple Shop. Here is Ted’s story. Apparently the merchants and property owners in the 2400 block wanted the pavement widened and curbs and gutters installed. They approached Ed Richardson the municipal engineer who was a great guy for getting things done. He in turn went to Baynes (likely because he was a councillor) gave him a slip of paper and said, “.. ..go around and .see all these people, get this signed up. We won’t give them a curb and gutter until they give us ten feet on both sides.” Simply put, Richardson wanted all the property owners on both the north and south sides of Marine Drive to donate 10 feet off the front of their lots. Baynes went on to say: ‘That was a hell of a )ob-â€"it took two or three weeks to see all these ownersâ€"and the only one I couldn’t get (what later became) the Sager place. The owner said, “I don’t give a damn about West Vancouver people.” Anti so. West Vancouver got its curbs and gutters and nice I (>-foot wide sidewalks, except for the two 6-foot strips. But, can anyone tell us why there is that narrow stretch on the south side? Red Cross Concert May 16, 1940 The concert arranged by J.D.A. Tripp last Sunday evening in Hollyburn Tbeatre for the benefit of the local Red Cross was a real musical treat and deserved a much larger attendance, not only on account ot the excellence of the programme but also the purpose tor which it was given. The small audience of music lovers present, however, made up in enthusiasm for what they lacked in numbers, as was only to be expected with such brilliant at tists on the programme, f hose assisting were Mrs. Amy Adair Dewar, soprano. Miss Vera Freeman (Garbovitsky School), violiniste, and Harold Brown, A.T.C.M., pianist, of the J.D.A. Tripp School. Mr. Tripp himself was called upon for an encore for each of his two groups of numbers while Mrs. Dewar was called upon also for an encore for her rendition of ‘‘There’ll Always Be An England,” which was repeated with the audience joining in the chorus at her request. She and Miss Vera Freeman were each the recipients of a bouquet. President J.R. Mitchell [who, the following day, would be elected president of West Vancouver’s first Lions’ Club] of the Red Cross made a brief speech during an interval. The theatre was loaned by Mr. Fletcher and the grand piano by courtesy of Mrs. J.W. Lang. (WVN) New Odeon Theatre in Garden Setting The new Odeon Theatre to be erected one lot east of Safeway Store on marine Drive w'ill be in the most modern style according to the company’s architect J. 1. English, M.R.A.T.C., who is responsible for the plans and is now here from the east in this connection. The work will be handled locally by Harry Simmonds, Vancouver architect. The new theatre will be built of timber and type of local stone and will have a garden setting grass plots and rock gardens in keeping with the terrain of the municipality. It will occupy the whole of the 100-feet frontage, there being no stores contained therein, as was the original intention. The most modern type of “Visual Front” will be used, a feature of it being a soda bar and lounge with a large circular bay window, giving a full view of Marine Drive. There will be no galleries. Instead all the approximately one thousand seats will be placed on one level in a unique ground plan with large areas of foyers and lobbies. Built-in furniture and display frames will be part of the construction, and the latest British equipment will be used, including machines, furnishings, chairs, etc. The plans, which call for a total expenditure of $100,()()()/ $ 12(),()()(), are now in course of preparation, and it is expected that construction will be started in the near future, (from the West Vancouver News, August 1st, 1946) Late-Reported Anniversary We offer belated congratulations to long-time Society mem- bers Joan (Sharman; a 1939 graduate of W.V.H.S.) and Doug McFadden, who, on September 30th, 2003, celebrated 60 years of marriage. A long-ago school annual wrote this of Joan; “Serene and quiet is dark-eyed Joan, with a charming manner all her own.” It’s likely these qualities had much to do with reaching the sixty-year anniversary. And one can certainly conjecture that Doug has corresponding virtues. 1 he reason the iiiemhersinp reru'w’di and "In Memoriain "forms were so small was that we wanted to save the cost of postage rn'crage. If We had run rediieed their size the extra cost for domestic postage (done would have been $93.67 plus tax.