West Side has a bad case of East Van cross envy

by Stephen Hui on Sep 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm
How original.
Stephen Hui

Recently, I came across these West Side versions of the East Van cross. Aren't there other religious symbols we could appropriate for neighbourhood pride? Maybe a West Side pentagram and Star of Kitsilano are in order.

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LTD.Edition
Sep 21, 2012 at 5:55 pm
No, east van crosses have a history to them that gives them meaning. Anything for the purpose of "Oooo, we want one too!" is meaningless and superficial.
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eastsider
Sep 21, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Plus, those pictured attempts are just sad.
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East Juan
Sep 21, 2012 at 7:53 pm
East Van is just copying the Dogtown cross, and they were copying graffiti in Venice beach.
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Martin Dunphy
Sep 21, 2012 at 8:24 pm
East Juan:

Way before Dogtown, bud.
And no one in East Van has ever, even today, heard of Venice Beach.
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scathie
Sep 22, 2012 at 3:45 am
What are you talking about, Martin? Where do you think all those Digital Domain guys from Venice moved to when they opened up here? Yeah, they're all living large out in East Van these days.
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Dave Allodar.
Sep 22, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Nobody on the West Side is envious of anything to do with East Van. We relish not having bars on our ground floor windows and smelling the ocean rather than the smell of turd.
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spacehindu
Sep 22, 2012 at 1:12 pm
so lame the East Van cross belongs to East Van, it shall not be misappropriated. I think I am gonna have to go old school and get out some cans and cross these out. Maybe I'll see if Ken Lum wants to roll with! Martin is right the East Van cross goes all the way back to the 50s.
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isaq21029102192019209
Sep 22, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Uh, you don't get it. It's a joke, it's poking fun at the "REPREZENT EAST VAN-VANCITY-LORDS OF ASSTOWN-WELCOME TO EAST VANCOUVER-THE EAST VAN" douchebags that have invaded from Kelowna, Alberta, Ontario and wherever the f**k else. Those "BC BORN AND BRED" shirts are lame also. Localism is for losers who can't afford to travel.
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Fact
Sep 22, 2012 at 4:18 pm
There is no argument. Many Vancouverites know it has been around for over 60 years.....Many of us old folks remember it going way back.
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motorama
Sep 22, 2012 at 4:37 pm
the Clark Parkers were using the East Van symbol in the 50's - quite a bit earlier than Dog Town
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ibobxtraz
Sep 22, 2012 at 4:53 pm
West Side marking looks like Texas.
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Martin Dunphy
Sep 22, 2012 at 5:57 pm
isaq:

The only "losers" are people who diss those with whom they live.
Perhaps you should travel. They say it broadens the horizons. And minds.
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eastender
Sep 22, 2012 at 6:55 pm
while growing up in east van in the 60s the west van and burnaby boys would run rather then fight they wore desiner runners we had the daytons and black leather jacket lol
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Moebius Stripper
Sep 22, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Dave Allodar, please tell everyone you know that East Van is smelly and unsafe. I know that the folks who rent in my stink-free and relatively safe neighbourhood will happily put up with such slander if it keeps the cost of housing down.
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Arodsbareballs
Sep 23, 2012 at 3:05 pm
we didn't know how to spell Coquitlam
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Elflord
Sep 23, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Bahaha. "Westside" one is the best.
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Roo
Sep 24, 2012 at 8:54 am
Meh. All the damn Kits kids who couldn't afford to buy in their parents neighbourhood live in East van now.
It's gone from something different to more of the plastic-coated sameness that creeps through this city like a zombie hipster.
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