Mike Andruff's (mandruff) Blog

  Who wants to shop?             Well if your are like my wife, you'll be spending a lot of time at the Oakridge Shopping Centre. This is Vancouver's premiere regional shopping mall. The mall is located at W. 41st Avenue and Cambie Street. In addition, this location is poised to become one of the...

Are you like me? Do you see the future of blogging as doing videos? Well I thought to spend a minute or two explaining my experience in shooting, editing, uploading and promoting my video. Shooting Recognizing videos have to be short to retain interest, think in terms of two to three minutes. Eve...

Say a city father said to you, "Bring the terminus of your railroad to our town, and we'll grant you prime land in our city to be." That was the deal the City of Vancouver offered the Canadian Pacific Railroad to locate in Vancouver over the intended location at the end of Burrard Inlet at Port ...

Quilchena is one of those central areas within Vancouver's Westside. For the most part it is the bowl of the highland area called the Arbutus Ridge.             When my late uncle was a boy, he used to fish for trout in the streams that existed where the Arbutus Village stands today (King Edward ...

The University Endowment Lands (UEL), is the western most sub area of Vancouver. It is the location of the University of British Columbia and has considerable real estate variety in the surrounding area. The UEL was originally a land grant to the university from the Provincial government. Subseq...

How many cities have equestrian lifestyles 20 minutes drive from downtown? Vancouver. Its Southlands sub area has a very engaged horsey community. Like many subareas this is one component of the area but it is significant. I have client who moved to Southlands to a small acreage where they can  ...

  In my early days, I can remember my father-in-law telling me that The Arbutus sub area of Vancouver was jokingly called "asthmatic flats". The reason for this was related to two things. First, the area is below the Arbutus ridge, a crescent shaped ridge just outside this area. It is lower land....

In 1975, I bought my first house in Kerrisdale. Prior to this, we had lived four years in a Kerrisdale apartment while going to university. Completing this phase of our life, and having started a family, we moved into our Ol' Dinosaur. It was a two bedroom, two level home with an unfinished basem...

The 1954 British Empire Games practice field for track, soccer and rugby is situated in the middle of Mackenzie Heights (31st Avenue and Balaclava). The games were hosted in Vancouver and the field is a legacy project from those days. It is a wonderful green space in this sub area of Vancouver's ...

     Respect of the First Nations people and the beachfront are my first thoughts whenever  the Kitsilano  sub area of Vancouver is mentioned. Kits is the common contraction of Kitsilano, but the original spelling was Khahtsalano meaning "man of the lake". The Kits beach is truly a visual jewel o...