{"id":173113,"date":"2026-08-18T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/173113\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:19:11","slug":"the-death-and-life-of-granville-street-vancouver-blog-miss604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/173113\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death and Life of Granville Street \u00bb Vancouver Blog Miss604"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t\t\tby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miss604.com\/about\" title=\"Visit Rebecca Bollwitt\u2019s website\" rel=\"author external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Bollwitt<\/a>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/2026\/08\/the-death-and-life-of-granville-street\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" title=\"The Death and Life of Granville Street\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 \u2014 1:36pm PDT<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our favourite local history tour company is teaming up with award-winning author Aaron Chapman for a new, limited-time tour in the heart of Vancouver\u2019s entertainment district. Join Forbidden Tours for The Death and Life of Granville Street on Saturdays in September.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/orpheum.jpg\" alt=\"Granville Street Neon Vancouver Archives Photo\" class=\"wp-image-127498\"  \/>1959 \u2013 B.C. Jennings Photographer \u2013 Vancouver Archives #  CVA 672-1<\/p>\n<p>The Death and Life of Granville Street<\/p>\n<p>Dates: Saturdays September 5, 12, and 19, 2026 at 1:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Location: Meet\u00a0outside Vancouver City Centre SkyTrain Station (725\u00a0W Georgia St)<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: <a href=\"https:\/\/forbiddenvancouver.ca\/special-event-death-and-life-of-granville-st\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Available online now<\/a>, book for $35 per person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapman will be joined by Forbidden Vancouver founder Will Woods on\u00a0a stroll where you\u2019ll discover the layers of history hiding in plain sight,\u00a0from vaudeville stages and movie palaces to Art Deco architecture and urban planning experiments. From neon signs and Hollywood stars who played Theatre Row to the loss of icons like the <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/2015\/07\/vancouver-history-original-birks-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birks Building<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/2016\/01\/the-second-hotel-vancouver\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Second Hotel Vancouver<\/a> and much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow Forbidden Tours on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/forbiddenvancouver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freecouver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787087951_634_freecouver-banner-July.png\" alt=\"freecouver banner July\" class=\"wp-image-214532\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tmetadata<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCategories:<a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/category\/bc\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/category\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/category\/vancouver\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vancouver<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tTags:<a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/downtown\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Vancouver<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/vancouver-events\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/forbidden-vancouver-walking-tours\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miss604.com\/tag\/tour\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Rebecca Bollwitt Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 \u2014 1:36pm PDT Our favourite local history tour company is teaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[238,17,3880,414,226,3879,95],"class_list":["post-173113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-bc","tag-canada","tag-contest","tag-events","tag-lifestyle","tag-theatre","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}