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Gastown & Downtown Vancouver, BC Twilinks Gastown & Downtown Vancouver Eclipse & Breaking Dawn Film Sites Site #31 TwiLinks http://TourTheTwilightSaga.com A Novel Holiday Travel Guidebook Site #31 TwiLinks Gastown & Downtown Vancouver Eclipse & Breaking Dawn Film Sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastown http://www.gastown.org/ http://vancouver.about.com/od/walkingtours/tp/Vancouver-Gastown-Shopping-Guide.htm http://www.seegastown.com/ Google Maps & SatNav/GPS: 160 Water Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2K8 Three Vancouver Walking Tours featured on Frommers’ website: http://www.frommers.com/destinations/vancouver/690123#sthash.HUADmGiH.dpbs http://www.frommers.com/destinations/vancouver/690124#sthash.eEa0pzVr.dpbs http://www.frommers.com/destinations/vancouver/690125#sthash.pRInvFTG.dpbs Tour the Twilight Saga’s Gastown Twilight Saga Walk Map: http://www.TourTheTwilightSaga.com/B2/VBCtsMaps.pdf Vancouver Hop‐On/Hop‐Off Busses and Trolley https://westcoastsightseeing.com/hop-on-hop-off/ http://www.vancouvertrolley.com/tours/hop-on-hop-off Tour the Twilight Saga’s preferred Easy Park facility: http://www.easypark.ca/easypark-lots/locations-and-rates/Gastown-Parking-Vancouver-Lot- 31.aspx?lang=-123.1072&lat=49.284 If approaching Gastown from the east, use the Water Street entrance (Point A). 160 Water Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2K8 If approaching from the west, use the West Cordova Street entrance (Point I). 240 West Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2N3 The Gastown Steam Clock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_clock#Gastown_steam_clock http://www.gastown.org/live-work/item/8688-the-return-of-the-steam-clock Gaoler’s Mews & Gassy Jack’s statue: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/canada/vancouver/sights/squares-plazas/maple-tree-square http://www.venturevancouver.com/gassy-jack-statue-gastown-vancouver http://www.ghostsofvancouver.com/gaolers_mews.htm Tour the Twilight Saga Site #31 TwiLinks 2 The Lamplighter Pub: http://donnellygroup.ca/locations/pubs/the-lamplighter/ Although the Lamplighter Pub’s main entrance address is 92 Water Street, Vancouver, BC V6B, the Lamplighter Twilight Saga film site is on Abbott Street, at: 49.283718, ‐123.106414—or (approximately) 212 Abbott St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1B2 Pike Place Market’s most popular pub and brewery is The Pike (TTTS Books One & Three, Site #1): http://www.pikebrewing.com/ Trounce Alley vs Blood Alley & TOURS: http://www.vacationsmadeeasy.com/VancouverBC/pointsOfInterest/GastownsHistoricBloodAlley inVancouverBCCA.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com/do/locals-insight/crowd-sourced/most-haunted-places/ http://www.johnatkin.com http://www.johnatkin.com/blood.html http://www.heritagevancouver.org/ http://www.vancouversun.com/news/news/4523360/story.html Vancouver Police Museum’s Sins of the City, a Walking Tour on Vancouver’s Shady Side: http://vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/sins-of-the-city-vice-dice-and-opium-pipes/ 240 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1L3 Less factually‐accurate Gastown Ghost Tours: http://forbiddenvancouver.ca/home/the-lost-souls-of-gastown/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Forbidden-Vancouver-Walking-Tours/322483821123830 http://ghostlygastowntours.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GhostlyGastownTours The Trounce Alley Eclipse Film Sites: 49.283424, ‐123.106567—or 247 Abbott St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2K8 Beatty Street Film Site: 538 Beatty Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1S5 The Sun Tower—a distinctive Vancouver heritage building: http://suntowerbuilding.com/building/history/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tower About The Orpheum Theatre: http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/the-orpheum.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheum_%28Vancouver%29 http://www.insidevancouver.ca/2014/07/12/new-all-access-tour-goes-inside-vancouvers-historic- orpheum-theatre/ Tour the Twilight Saga Site #31 TwiLinks 3 To learn what Orpheum Theatre events and performances are offered during the dates of your Vancouver Twilight Saga trip, go to: http://www.vancouver-theatre.com/theaters/orpheum-theater/theater.php Orpheum Theatre Public Tours: http://www.bcentertainmenthalloffame.com/ The Twilight Lexicon Timeline: http://www.twilightlexicon.com/the-lexicon/timeline/ Footage for several episodes of the Battlestar Galactica TV series (2004‐2009) was filmed in the Orpheum Theatre: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/ http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Opera_House Tour the Twilight Saga’s collection of Battlestar Galactica screenshot reproductions to shoot when visiting the Orpheum Theatre: http://www.TourTheTwilightSaga.com/B2/BSGscreenshots.pdf To see several Orpheum Theatre pix snapped by other Twilighters, go to: http://twilightgirlportland.com/filming-location-bd-1-orpheum-theater/ The Orpheum Theatre Peek‐Inside Place: 49.279868, ‐123.120235 The Orpheum Theatre Marquee and Star Walk: 884 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street http://garrybrazzillphotography.com/granville-street-vancouver-history/ The BC Entertainment Hall of Fame’s Star Walk: http://www.miss604.com/2007/12/granville-street-starwalk-and-redesign.html http://www.bcentertainmenthalloffame.com/agency.php?view=roster Hornby Street Film Site: 49.283596,‐123.12035—or 700 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6E The Vancouver Art Gallery: http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Art_Gallery The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver: 900 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6C 2W6 http://www.fairmont.com/hotel-vancouver/ Tour the Twilight Saga Site #31 TwiLinks 4 Serdar Hizli’s 2010 Eclipse production notes article: http://serdar-hizli-art.com/twilightsaga/2010/07/eclipse-production-notes-making-eclipse/ The 50 Shades Girl Portland fan blogsite: http://50shadesgirlportland.com/?cat=14 Fifty Shades of Grey: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey The Twilight Girl Portland fan blogsite—run by the same person as the 50 Shades Girl Portland blogsite: http://twilightgirlportland.com/ VanDusen Botanical Gardens 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6M 4H1, Canada http://vandusengarden.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VanDusen_Botanical_Garden The VanDusen Botanical Gardens map: http://vandusengarden.org/visit/plan-your-visit/vbg-map .
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