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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

A grieving former mayor built a two-thirds-scale Hollywood Bowl in a rainforest park in his wife's memory - and 15,000 people came to the free opening concert. Malkin Bowl, in Vancouver's Stanley Park at 610 Pipeline Road, opened on 8 July 1934 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra playing to a Depression-era crowd sprawled across the lawns. The origin is pure civic legend: VSO conductor Allard de Ridder persuaded wholesale grocery magnate and former mayor W.H. Malkin to fund an outdoor band sh...