Northwest Dance Halls

The Afterthought / Pender Auditorium
339 Pender Street
Vancouver, British Columbia

Some of the bands that performed at this place during the early years of NW rock and roll were:
 
 

Black Snake Blues
The Centaurs
The Grateful Dead
Motherhood
United Empire Loyalists
 

Others??
 

The Pender Auditorium was downtown on Pender Street.  The Pender was originally an old labour hall with a great wall mural about the IWW.  Eventually it became a long-term gay club.

Gregory Melle, November 2006

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Last Update:  19 April 2008

Credits: Gregory Melle, Doug Dodd, Wendy Malesku