Documenting Vancouver's punk history
D.O.A. frontman Joe Keithley and photographer Bev Davies talk to q about the early days of the Vancouver punk scene.
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The 1970s was a time of change for the city of Vancouver. It was starting to turn from a small mill town on the harbour to an actual metropolis.
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And in the summer of 1977, a year after punk broke in the U.K., what's known to have been the city's first punk show happened and a few weeks later, the Ramones came to town giving birth to the local Vancouver punk scene.
D.O.A. frontman Joe Keithley and photographer Bev Davies talk to q about the early days of the Vancouver punk scene.
Here are more photographs from the early Vancouver punk scene taken by Bev Davies.
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— Produced by Elaine Chau