At Mackin House during ‘Fair in the Square’ – Places des Arts in the Maillardville area of Coquitlam The SPARC Museum has participated several times at the annual Fair In The Square event – over the July long weekend. We have some of our nice old radios from our collection on show. To support the… Read the full article
The Maple Ridge Museum hosted us on August 4th, 2007. That event was the Mayors’ Heritage day, held in the Memorial Peace Park. We were located on the Bandstand. As you can see, we had a good sampling of our radios, and an ambitious broadcast operation playing the music.
On August 18th, 2007, the Mission District Historical Society invited SPARC to be part of the 100th anniversary celebration of their Bank of Commerce building that houses the Mission Museum collection. It was a perfect day, sitting comfortably on the museum porch, with the Mission bridge and the Fraser Valley mountains in the distance. Below… Read the full article
Red’s radio broadcast career has spanned more than fifty years, from which he has carefully saved many tapes – almost 400 – and he has put them into SPARC’s hands. There are celebrity interviews, old radio shows, station jingles, and some priceless airchecks. You should be hearing some of these over the next while on… Read the full article
— Late August, 2002 Pictured is the set-up in Brentwood Town Center in August 2002 for an event that honoured the late broadcaster Jack Cullen for his contribution to the Vancouver radio and music scene. In the 70s, Jack ran a record store in Brentwood Mall, with his own broadcast studio in the rear. In… Read the full article