Kingsway – What’s Royalty got to do with it?

[Mariken Van Nimwegen]

Kingsway – the old highway between New Westminster and Vancouver: so ugly, so surprisingly textured, its secrets well kept – call it sublime! On foot and on the sunny side of the street, we discovered so much, a scala of details unnoticed when speeding by in a car.
From Little Saigon (how many Vietnamese soup restaurants can one city accommodate?) to car-lot city, Kingsway’s man-made trees deserve special attention, from red and orange plastic palms, to inflatable polyps, to upside down sculpted trees. From the pristine, vintage ‘fifties motel in the 2400-block to the 19th Century stone mansion in Burnaby, from Metrotown alienation to mysterious little businesses of all descriptions in rickety one-story shop-rows, from the British Servicemen’s beer-drinking locale to Purdy’s chocolates headquarters – home of vats-full of red Valentine’s hearts, to bric à brac shops in New West, in between we found Amber’s Organic Deli to eat a home-made lunch of outstanding soup and hot sandwiches.
Skytrain whisked us back in 15 minutes. The six of us had good fun on this very different, highly social outing, without any peaks to bag and plenty of Starbucks/pit stops along the way.

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