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From the Vault: 21

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Doorway of one of the elegant apartment buildings along Shaker Boulevard just east of Shaker Square in Cleveland - most were built in the 1920's and 1930's

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Shaker Square station in Cleveland - this is the point where the street level blue and green light rail lines of the RTA (Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority aka Rapid) join and head downtown together below grade in a cutting - the streetcar lines were designed as part of the Square itself as a kind of commercial gateway to the large streetcar-based Shaker Heights development the 1920's and 30's

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From the Vault: 19

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Decorated bicycle rickshaw on Baldwin east of Beverley, Toronto - imported from India or Bangladesh apparently

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Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, one of Arthur Erickson's most famous works, located on top of Burnaby Mountain - this is the quandrangle

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Metal skeleton of an old waterfront building in North Vancouver a short way east of Lonsdale Quay - now demolished it seems

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Pacific Central Station, Vancouver - Western terminus for VIA Rail passenger services such as The Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver - the station was originally CN Rail's passenger station (called Union Station), CP passenger trains (including the original Canadian) terminated at Waterfront Station on the Downtown peninsula

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Commercial Drive Skytrain Station on the Millenium Line, Vancouver - you can just make out a freight train on the railway mainline to the right of the LRT tracks at a lower level (this trench is called the Grandview Cut, originally dug for the railway with the new Skytrain line built inside it) - the bridge connects to the interchange with Broadway Station on the Expo Line

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Boathouses/Floating Houses along Vancouver waterfront at Granville Island

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Wat Suthat Temple, Bangkok

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A small twisting street in Bangkok (unsure of exact location, but I think district is correct)

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