Ashtray from The Marine Room, Olympic Hotel, North Vancouver. From between the 50s and 70s.
The hotel was demolished over 20 years ago.
Olympic Hotel – From City of Vancouver Archives
Olympic Hotel – From City of Vancouver Archives
This photo must pre-date its apparent reputation as a biker bar, more details of which can be found on Sparkling Apple’s page. A band I just learned of searching for pix of the Olympic Hotel.
Is smoking obsolete? Sometimes it seems so in this frontier town.
Status: Invite friends who smoke over to smoke on the balcony.
Kill-ratio: 26:2 / 13:1
Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 310 For Exhaling The Good Ole Days.
Day 20 featured another tobacciana item, a Zippo lighter.
Obsolescence Project 
Rationally I know that taking up smoking again just to use an ashtray is a bad idea, it is quite tempting!
Quite so. There’s not too much rational about smoking, in my prior (and still occasionally longed for ) experience with it:)
I agree with Richard–these are lovely photos, your pair very much complimenting the pieces from the archives.
Thanks John! I did feel the room one had a similar vibe.
Lovely photographs – that’s the trouble with smoking today (and part of the reason I gave up), it has to be done on balconies, in alleys and freezing cold back gardens.
Yes indeed. Especially where winter comes on in full force it was a cruel and lonely activity. I gave it up as it started to conflict with my running goals:)