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AHA MEDIA visits Jimi Hendrix’s Grandmother’s Restaurant in Vancouver near Chinatown
Following an article in Vancouver Metro News, AHA MEDIA visits Jimi Hendrix’s Grandmother’s Restaurant located in Vancouver near Chinatown.
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/local/article/264784–experience-where-hendrix-lived-in-vancouver
Experience where Hendrix lived in Vancouver
Jimi Hendrix’s grandmother’s restaurant at 207 Union St., which will be open to the public today.
DANIEL TAM
The grand opening will feature look-a-likes and the CD release of building owner Vincent Fedora.
Fedora discovered the property’s history when he visited the Jimi Hendrix Experience Museum in Seattle. He saw an envelope containing a postcard Jimi Hendrix wrote to his grandmother with the address of his property, 207 Union St., written on it.
In this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA has a first look at historic Jimi Hendrix’s Grandmother’s restaurant at 207 Union Street ( corner of Main and Union ) near Chinatown in Vancouver.
It is currently owned by Vincent Fedora who has planned a CD release party of his own works and a Jimi Hendrix look a like contest.
He has decorated the restaurant in Jimi Hendrix’s colors of red, orange and purple and plans to make it into a local shrine to Jimi Hendrix.
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of the video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, April Smith speaks with Vincent Fedora – current owner of Jimi Hendrix’s Grandmother’s restaurant in Vancouver.
Fedora’s plans are to create a shrine to Jimi Hendrix and make the place more decorative. He mentions a CD release party of his own music and a Jimi Hendrix look a like contest tonight Monday July 20, 2009.
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA speaks with Vincent Fedora, owner of Jimi Hendrix shrine at Jimi Hendrix’s Grandmother’s restaurant on Main and Union Streets in Vancouver near Chinatown.
There is going to be a grand opening with a Jimi Hendrix’s look alike contest and Vincent Fedora’s CD release party tonight at 8PM Monday July 20, 2009
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
AHA MEDIA meets Bradley Cooper, Winemaker from the Okanagan Valley, B.C.
About Bradley Cooper
- Name: Bradley Cooper
- Location: wine maker, British Columbia, Canada
I’m a professional winemaker from Canada’s famed Okanagan Valley. I make wine for Township 7 and operate my own consultation business. I use my expertise to assist new and established businesses in the production of world-class wines. My wife and I have started our own brand, Black Cloud wine. http://www.blackcloud.ca
Read more about Bradley Cooper at http://www.steepcreek.blogspot.com/
AHA MEDIA met Bradley Cooper at the Ovaltine Cafe, where we heard about his days as a winemaker in the Okanagan Valley, B.C. The most interesting thing was to learn how cellphones and technology help to organize his very busy lifestyle 🙂
Bradley Cooper has his own wine brand – a pinot noir called Black Cloud! http://www.blackcloud.ca .
You may also follow his new wine label Black Cloud on twitter – http://twitter.com/BlackCloudWine
In this photo, Bradley Cooper chats with Lorraine Murphy of http://www.raincoastermedia.com about his new wine brand “Black Cloud” http://www.blackcloud.ca
Congratulations to Bradley Cooper and his new wine brand Black Cloud 🙂
Street posters in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) and Chinatown
The following are posters in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside and Chinatown areas:
AHA MEDIA asks Why did the Canada Goose cross the road?
Answer: To get to the other side! 🙂
In the following photos, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA, photographed the Canada Geese that were resting outside Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Chinatown, crossing the road to get to the other side. 🙂
Pedicabs Training in Chinatown ( sponsored by BOB – Building Opportunities with Business )
Sunny Days and sunny smiles! 🙂
Pedicabs and their new tour guides from our local area including the Vancouver Downtown Eastside training and learning many things including:maintenance, customer service, time and small business management and skills and history of both Chinatown and Gastown – our tourists and local citizens are in for a treat! 🙂
In the photo below, Garvin Snider dressed in red is training to be one of the newest Pedicab operators 🙂
The Pedicab project is outlined below and highlights some of the work that BOB is currently doing in our neighborhood 🙂
Pedicabs
A pedicab is a bicycle-rickshaw ridden by a tour guide for hire and usually seats one or two passengers. The pedicab project is led by the Chinatown Business Improvement Association (BIA), with BOB providing a grant to kick-start development of the project.
By providing visitors with an environmentally friendly, fun and novel way of seeing the sights, the BIA expects to boost tourism and employment in the inner-city. Best of all, passengers will find the pedicab experience from the waterfront through Gastown and Chinatown an adventure with knowledgeable guides willing and able to provide a unique and multi-faceted experience.
In the photo below, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA, smiles and waves as he takes a test ride as a new Pedicab tour guide for our two historical neighborhoods – Gastown and Chinatown 🙂
BOB’s BusinessLink program will assist in the recruitment and training of pedicab guides in the inner-city. This project is just another example of how BOB is helping bring positive change to the inner-city.
For more information about this project, please contact Andrew McKay at (778) 328-7672 or email andrew.mckay@bobics.org.
Our new tour guides even get history lessons to help them tell their tales to their adventure-loving passengers!
After all the training and lessons Pedicab guides will be fit and ready to welcome anyone to our area! 🙂
Our summer in our neighborhoods of Gastown and Chinatown are going to get alot more exciting and more friendly with our new PediCab tourguides! 🙂
More PediCab training photos on our Flick :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157616846478525/
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