No Expo? No BC Place, Canada Place, Science World or SkyTrain.<\/p>\n
While the FIFA World Cup is still rolling around in our recent-memory banks, arguably the single most-impactful event to ever happen in Vancouver is Expo 86.<\/p>\n
(The 2010 Winter Olympics was a big catalyst too, but we’ll save that comparison for another story.)<\/p>\n
If you grew up here, it’s likely that images of Expo 86 can still clearly be brought to mind by either you or your parents.<\/p>\n
Many of Metro Vancouver’s most iconic landmarks and amenities\u00a0wouldn’t be here without it: BC Place, Canada Place, Science World, the SkyTrain, the Cambie Street Bridge and even the\u00a0Coquihalla Highway.<\/p>\n
This year, we marked the 40th anniversary of the city-shaping event, marked with celebrations and exhibits\u00a0\u2014 which were perhaps a bit overshadowed by all the soccer superfandom.<\/p>\n
But, while sporting one of our handsome Expo 86 T-shirts, overshadowing your historic shine will be an impossibility.<\/p>\n
We’ve got four variations: “Expo 86”<\/a> in big blue and white text, a big “86”<\/a> in white,\u00a0a pocket\u00a0“Expo 86” logo<\/a>\u00a0or everyone’s favourite mascot from the big event, Expo Ernie<\/a>.<\/p>\n On our online shop, you’ll also find more throwback designs, like A&B Sound<\/a> and Stardust<\/a>.<\/p>\n And remember, with each purchase, you’re directly supporting local journalists in our newsroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Expo? No BC Place, Canada Place, Science World or SkyTrain. While the FIFA World Cup is still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-930584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}