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Major Matthews collection Vancouver (B.C.) Commercial buildings With digital objects
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Georgia [Street] and Howe [Street] northeast roof

Georgia [Street] and Howe [Street] northeast roof

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising Turret Cigarettes on the roof of 785 Georgia Street, a billboard advertising Buckinham Cigarettes and Model TV6 Trucks and a sign for Waghorn Gwynn and Company on the roof of the Granville-Georgia Block (709 West Georgia), a tourist's direction and mileage sign at the corner of Granville and Georgia Streets and the Hotel Georgia in the background

Granville Street

Granville Street

Photograph shows the east side of Granville Street from the 800 Block looking north including the Vanvouver Block

Granville [Street] and Robson [Street]

Granville [Street] and Robson [Street]

Photograph shows a portion of the easdt side of the 700 and 800 Blocks of Granville Street including the Honey Dew, the Royal Bank of Canada, a United Cigar Store and signs for the Capitol Theatre and the New Orpheum Cafe

[Gray Block at 1206 Homer Street]

[Gray Block at 1206 Homer Street]

Photograph shows building containing various businesses, including: Western Cloak and Suit Co. Ltd., Beach Fandry Limited, Quality Cloak and Suit, His Master's Voice Ltd., Barber-Ellis Stationers, "Silk Hat" brand cocktails, Joseph Kennedy Exporters, and Tuckett Limited tobacconist. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Hastings Street

Hastings Street

Photograph shows the north side of the intersection of Hastings Street and Main Street including the Dawson Building, Owl Drugs and part of the Union Bank of Canada

[Henry Darling and Son, Ltd. warehouse]

[Henry Darling and Son, Ltd. warehouse]

Photograph shows people and parked cars in front of the former Oppenheimer Bros. warehouse on Powell Street which was used as a City Hall after the fire of 1886. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

Photograph is exhibit "B" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

Photograph is exhibit "F" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

Photograph is exhibit "F" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

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