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Helen 'The Swinging Girl' Neon Sign
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark591
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Commercial building.
- Associated Dates
- 1956
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Other Names
- Helen's Childrens Wear Sign
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Helen's Childrens Wear Sign
- Geographic Access
- Hastings Street
- Associated Dates
- 1956
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 12771
- Enactment Date
- 19/04/2010
- Description
- Commercial building.
- Heritage Value
- While the building here is of some importance as the former North Burnaby municipal office, its primary importance is its delightful neon sign that has become a North Burnaby landmark. Helen Arnold opened Helen’s Childrens Wear shop in the building next door to the old Municipal offices in 1948. In 1955, when North Burnaby moved out, she moved into the vacated building. As part of the renovations, Helen enlisted the assistance of her good friend Jimmy Wallace, owner of Vancouver’s Wallace Neon Company, to create a new sign for her expanded business. One of the company’s designers, Reeve Lehman, created the swinging neon girl that was installed in 1956. Designed in two parts, one section of the sign is cloud shaped and reads ‘Helen’s’ while the other section is a moving representation of a little girl on a swing. The sign is nine feet six inches high and nine feet wide, and the lower section is animated with an internal motor and gears. It immediately became a landmark on Hastings Street, and recently the sign’s design fame has spread far and wide as one of the best surviving examples of kinetic neon art in North America.
- Locality
- Vancouver Heights
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Willingdon Heights Area
- Community
- Burnaby
- Names
- Helen's Childrens Wear
- Street Address
- 4142 Hastings Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Burnaby General Hospital's emergency ward
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45348
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1972
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Speaker Gordon Dowding, Chief of Medical Staff Dr. R.E. Harlos, Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Lorimer, Health Minister Dennis Cocke and Education Minister Eileen Dailly visiting Burnaby General Hospital's emergency ward to see just how badly facilities needed to be expanded.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1972
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 14 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-243
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Speaker Gordon Dowding, Chief of Medical Staff Dr. R.E. Harlos, Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Lorimer, Health Minister Dennis Cocke and Education Minister Eileen Dailly visiting Burnaby General Hospital's emergency ward to see just how badly facilities needed to be expanded.
- Names
- Burnaby General Hospital
- Dowding, Gordon
- Harlos, Dr. R.E.
- Lorimer, James G "Jim"
- Cocke, Dennis
- Dailly, Eileen
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- King, Basil
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Four provincial cabinet ministers Friday visited Burnaby general Hospital's emergency ward to see just how badly facilities need to be expanded. From left, Speaker Gordon Dowding, Chief of Medical Staff Dr. R.E. Harlos, Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Lorimer, Health Minister Dennis Cocke and Education Minister Eileen Dailly get first-hand look at stop-gap expansion, pending approval or otherwise of today's $95 million hospitals bylaw referendum. BGH emergency facilities are being expanded to handle 11 stretcher cases instead of present six."
- Geographic Access
- Kincaid Street
- Street Address
- 3935 Kincaid Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cascade-Schou Area
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