The Robson Street Vancouver Lost
Before the big brands, there was Robsonstrasse. In the 1950s and ’60s, European shopkeepers, especially Germans who arrived after the Second World War, helped shape this stretch of Robson Street with bakeries, delicatessens, markets and boutiques. Murchie’s. European News. The Schnitzel House. Familiar stops that made a shopping trip part of neighbourhood life. Some shopfronts were built onto old houses, with the homes still standing behind and above them. By the late 1960s and early ’70s, r
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