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Narrowest Building in the world

Here's what is claimed to be the narrowest building in the world in Vancouver BC. Look closely at the building with the second story red bay windows on the corner..it's only about 4 feet deep behind all those glass windows fronting the street. The building behind it, slightly taller is not part of the same building. Forget the history now,,something about a man who owned a 6 ft strip fronting the street in the early part of the 20th century and the city wanting to annex the land from him because they felt it was unusable so he built this.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...359.995193&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=49.280492,-1
 
Pete!!!!

Concerning the view of the skinniest building ever in the world picture. Do I see trolley wires? If so, where are the rails? Or are these for buses?
 
Vancouver has the same type of electric trolley bus system as San Francisco does. That's why there are no rails. I loved it when I still saw the old-school buses running on the wires up there. That was a long time ago. I'm sure they've all been replaced now, just as they were in SF so many years ago.
 
The Western Appliance Sign

Used to have three strobe lights, one on top of each spire. They'd flash sequentially. I'd watch them out of my high school Spanish classroom window on dark rainy days.
 
OK, No more "Western" after this one . . .

This is a motel in the city of Santa Clara. They are not very preservation-friendly there. This sign used to be well maintained, but less and less of the neon lights up anymore. As you can see from the "HATED OOL" wording, the entire sign is being ignored by the current ownership. I just hope the city doesn't allow it to be removed completely. This is one of the many motels along El Camino Real from the days before there were any major freeways circling the SF Bay.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...nia+95050&ll=37.352292,-121.964024&spn=0,359.
 
Rick, Vancouver still has a lot of trolley bus routes, perhaps the largest left. In fact one of the members here as well as an old friend of mine used to drive them. For those not sure the difference...trolley are electric buses on rubber tires running from wires above the street. Streetcars run on rails.
Toronto still has a very large streetcar system
 
Check out my favorite laundromat, its called the Vend-a-Wash. Here is the Vend-a-Wash in Street View.

The last time I was there they still had some old coin-op Dexter single-load and double-load machines which are old Philco-Bendix style front loaders but with stainless steel wash cylinders. It's so cool seeing an old Bendix style cylinders (the shape is exactly the same as in 1959) but in stainless. They also have coin-op ironers! For years I've been meaning to photograph this place.

The old deco early 1930s building in the background on Lake Street was the Sears Roebuck retail store and catalog distribution center. The top of the tower used to have green neon "Sears" sign on all four sides that would light up the night sky all over south Minneapolis. Now the building has been converted into condos and the building has been renamed the Midtown Exchange. I was very happy to see that if they had to remove the green neon "Sears" letters they at least replaced them with "Midtown" green letters which still light up the night sky.
 

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