Warning: you are entering hipster town

by Stephen Hui on May 2, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Mount Pleasant hipster geography.
Stephen Hui

You've no doubt seen those way-finding kiosks that sprouted up all over Vancouver ahead of the 2010 Olympics. They've probably helped a few tourists find their bearings in the city.

Well, at the kiosk at the intersection of Main Street and Kingsway, someone has added some local flavour. The hand-drawn map not-too-kindly points out where the hipsters are found.

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Gandalf
May 2, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Actually, that wedge is where the billionaire, minimum-wage paying Lees, owners of Our Town Cafe and the luggage shop, can be found.
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Yes.
May 2, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Without a doubt. Have you ever been to the toddler/kids drop in gym time on a Saturday morning at Mount Pleasant Community Centre? Hipster central. Lots of beards and lots of flannel. It's unfortunate.
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10B
May 3, 2012 at 9:13 am
Is the hipster irony of this map the fact that its upside down?
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Che G.
May 3, 2012 at 9:46 am
"Is the hipster irony of this map the fact that its upside down?"
Shut up! Your making my fedora and my $10.00 Ten speed cry!
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M&H
May 3, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Let's make a Canuck jersey wearing over privileged man-child douche bag map. You know, Downtown!
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Sam M
May 3, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Brilliant
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Thomas McKinnes
May 3, 2012 at 2:55 pm
The facial hair thing is getting pretty gross. Enough already! And the 10-speeds. oy vay. I went to a bar in gastown, and it was a rainbow of 10-speeds parked outside, and moustachioued and bearded skinny men in tight pants sitting inside. Is every one a sheep at all times in all groups?
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violet9ish
May 3, 2012 at 3:51 pm
i've noticed that in other major (and minor) cities around the world, people are often idiosyncratic, custom flavoured, unique individuals... but in Vancouver, people just seem to choose from like 3 different personalities.
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Wonka
May 3, 2012 at 4:10 pm
violet9ish -- I'd place you in the ignorant, stereotyping moron group. You probably haven't been farther than Chilliwack.
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Ian G62
May 3, 2012 at 4:15 pm
the beards and the plaid shirts are driving me crazy - whudda thunk taliban beards would be all the rage in this city ?
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violet9ish
May 3, 2012 at 4:44 pm
@Wonka...

thanks for selecting the Grumpy Pants personality from the list of options. i presume you are respectfully asking for a list of the cities i was drawing my comparison from?

considering i traveled professionally for a little over 10 years, i have visited many cities. but in drawing this specific comparison, i was particularly thinking of New York, LA, Paris, London, Tokyo, Prague, Reykjavik, even Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, to name the larger centres.

please proceed with poo-pooing my list of interesting people cities with your list of "better" cities.
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out at night
May 3, 2012 at 8:52 pm
I've been meaning to do this for a long while:
Go into any number of trendy eateries on Main (or in the general hipster quarter), sit down, look at a menu, and just when your over-tatted, blank-expressioned, slouchingly indifferent server is ready to take your order, say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I only give my business to places where I'm treated to a smile, some sort of greeting and the sense that I am truly welcome. Guess I'll go elsewhere." Then leave, and repeat.

Maybe if enough people do that those tragically detached folks will get the message.
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R U Kiddingme
May 3, 2012 at 11:05 pm
@out at night

This is my hood, I have never been treated shabbily around here. This is not to say that everything is amazing 100% of the time, of course not, but that I have not had the unhappy experiences you have. I find this area quite vibrant actually.

I think it is time to get over being over hipsters. Thick black glasses are practical and durable. Vinyl records are inexpensive ways of building up a record collection and the cover art is interesting and a fading tradition. Bicycles are healthsome and good.
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Yeah
May 4, 2012 at 12:22 am
Vancouver used to have way more flavour. It's all gone now, and all that's left is the snarkiness, which was a nice bit of spice when combined with the unique coolness of the people, and really what separated us from over-cool Island people. But now, with that coolness gone, all we have left is people calling each other douches variously.

I'll tell you what: in the nineties, if you called me a douchebag, I would have decked you.

Oh yeah, hipsters? Keep it up. You're not as cool as the punk rockers, or the thrashers, the wiggers, the ravers, or any of the many more varied groups we had going on back in the day (who would still hang out together because Vancouver was so cool), but you've mopped up the difference and represented it somehow, and I thank you for that.
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Gene Coffee Bar
May 4, 2012 at 12:25 am
It's where the hipsters get their circle jerk on.
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Justlikearobot
May 4, 2012 at 12:57 am
Hipsters were hanging there before hipsters were hipsters. (Get it? HEEEYOO!)
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John B.
May 4, 2012 at 9:16 am
Hahaha yeah I remember when they appeared. This is so cool. I have found this can help to those, who were unable to find the "maps" on the streets
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Hippy-ster
May 4, 2012 at 11:27 am
It's one little wedge people - relax!
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fat girl
May 4, 2012 at 12:02 pm
im too fat to be able to follow any other trend but the 40s-50s betty boop trend that's going on right now :(
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jealous
May 4, 2012 at 2:09 pm
don't blame the neighbourhood.
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