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"About
Kitsilano--Hard
to believe, but in the '60s Kitsilano was a
neighborhood that had fallen on hard times.
Nobody respectable wanted to live there--the
1920s homes had all been converted to cheap
rooming houses--so the hippies moved in. The
neighborhood became Canada's Haight-Ashbury,
with coffeehouses, head shops, and lots of incense
and long hair. Once the boom generation stopped
raging against the machine, they realized that
Kitsilano--right next to the beach, but not
quite downtown--was a groovy place to live and
a darn fine place to own property. Real estate
began an upward trend that has never stopped,
and Kits became thoroughly yuppiefied. Nowadays,
it's a fun place to wander. There are great
bookstores and trendy furniture and housewares
shops, lots of consignment clothing stores,
snowboard shops, coffee everywhere, and lots
of places to eat. Indeed, every third storefront
is a restaurant. The best parts of Kitsilano
are the stretch of W. Fourth Avenue between
Burrard and Balsam streets, and W. Broadway
between Macdonald and Alma streets. "
-- From Frommer's
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