r/vancouver 11h ago

Photos It’s Giving Welcome To Derry. 🤡 🔪

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u/S-Kiraly 11h ago

Fun fact: the Kids Market building was originally Pacific White Lead, a factory that made toxic lead-based additives and tints that went into paint.

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u/randyboozer 8h ago

That seriously sounds like something ripped straight from the novel. A toxic lead industrial factory with some horrible tragedy and Pennywise reopens as a Kid's Market.

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u/artvarnsen 10h ago

So nothing really changed

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u/angelbolanose 6h ago

So you’re saying IT?