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This building burned on April 6 2005, the same night as the terrible fire at the Mekong Grocery which can be seen here. People lost their homes, but no-one lost their life.The building was torn down recently.
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- Preston and Somerset is the future location of the Vietnamese Boat People's Museum
- 453 Somerset has changed since it was originally constructed
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- 702 Somerset was the New Great Wall
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- 459 Somerset has a porch made of brick
- In 2007 there was a large fire on the northwest corner of Somerset and Booth
- 838 Somerset has finally been redeveloped
- 1002 Somerset is the home of the Vietnamese Unified Buddhist Congregation
- 502 and a half Somerset was once the site of a tragic accident
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July 12, 2006
784 Somerset - two times of day
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There is someone in the second floor window in the right photo.
July 11, 2006
There is some good graf at 651 and 882 Somerset
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The left image is at 651 Somerset on the east wall of the Shanghai restaurant. This place is very supportive of artists and is very popular with young people and students. The right image is a wonderful dragon on the east wall of 882 somerset.
July 06, 2006
785 to 783 Somerset Street
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July 05, 2006
Carribean Flavours at 881
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Some of these pictures are old. The right image was shot several years ago with a pretty primitive (but expensive!) canon s20 digital camera. I am reshooting most of this stuff. The image on the right took a lot of work in photoshop to make it even remotely acceptable compared to what I can do with my current tool. Time marches on . . .
808 Somerset
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The number 2 bus stops at 806 somerset
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806 Somerset Street is a retail outlet for a local clothing manufacturer
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This is an unusual display for this business - there are usually more racks out than this. The clothes are very inexpensive and made with quite fancy materials.
The Nasa Food Centre at 802 Somerset
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The Nasa food centre is new. There was another Indian grocery store here which was burned out in a bad fire (no-one injured luckily.) This store is at the south east corner of Booth street which is one of the busiest intersections on the street. See another view showing the intersection on a nice hot summer night here.
This location is where the number 2 bus going downtown stops.
A newer building at 841 -839
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841 is the Pho Bo Ga 3 Vietnamese restaurant which stays open quite late. The vacant store was the Phu Hai Supermarket which closed after a very brief period in business. This street sees a lot of businesses that are short lived. The for rent signs say "call Angelo" which is also the name listed in many other shop windows on Somerset and Wellington street. Angelo is an important landlord in this part of the city.
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