Please join authors Diane Purvey and John Belshaw as they discuss Vancouver’s gritty underbelly in the 1930s to 1960s.
Tuesday, March 5, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Central Library, 350 W. Georgia St. Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Free admission. Space is limited. Info: 604-331-331-3716 or info@vpl.ca.
Through extensive research and by unearthing archival photographs, their book Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 charts an age of rising moral panics: smuggling rings, police corruption, crime waves, the sex trade, and the glamourization of sex, providing a fascinating look at the ways in which this city was made and unmade.