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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.
Back door at the Smilin' Buddha club at 109 East Hastings in Vancouver on Sept. 20, 1980. (Bev Davies )

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. 

Vancouver punk legend Joe Keithley and photographer Bev Davies. (Elaine Chau )

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.

Joe Keithley on stage at Buddha on March 6, 1981. (Bev Davies )
The neon sign of Vancouver's famous Smilin' Buddha nightclub. (Bev Davies )
Brian 'Wimpy Roy' Goble and Joe Keithley on June 11, 1981 (Bev Davies )

— Produced by Elaine Chau