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Vancouver Now & Then: This Hastings Street corner used to be home to more than just coffee

In this one small corner of the city (470 W Hastings St), you could find dentists, cigars, typewriters, clothiers, a drug store, and an accordion school back in the day. Today it's pretty much one big coffee shop.
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Here's a look at 470 W Hastings St in downtown Vancouver, decades apart | Photos: John Bentley/Vancouver Now & Then and Vancouver Archives

In this one small corner of the city (470 W Hastings St), you could find dentists, cigars, typewriters, clothiers, a drug store, and an accordion school back in the day. Today it's pretty much one big coffee shop.

Compare the images, of then and now, here on the Vancouver Now & Then site.

John Bentley is an architectural photographer who has photographed the inside and outside of thousands of buildings around Vancouver. Using images from the Vancouver Archives he offers a glimpse of the past and present on his site Vancouver Now & Then.