He is admittedly sentimental about cars, owning a fully restored 1931 Ford Model A coupe which is the same type of car his father drove to his job at the North Vancouver ferry ticket office. It has travelled 465,000 kilometres.īower has had 12,000 published photographs and seven exhibitions of his work, including the history of Hastings Park, which he has chronicled since starting at The Vancouver Sun in 1955. The Thunderbird continues on as his retirement car. “The speedometer had gone around four times and I took a photo of it every time it hit 99999.9,” he says. Ralph Bower and his venerable 1978 Ford Thunderbird retired from the Sun on Dec. Eighteen ironworkers lost their lives and Ralph Bower’s photographs were front page across the country. He was just minutes away and beat the emergency crews there. He was in that car on Jat Vancouver’s Hastings Park race track, when a frantic radio phone call came in from the Sun newsroom that the Second Narrows Bridge had collapsed. The young news photographer bought a year-old baby blue 1957 Pontiac Laurentian convertible to carry him to his assignments. To this day, he asks for donations to the hospital instead of selling his photographs. His first assignment was at Children’s Hospital. When he was transferred to the photo department he found his calling. But an opportunity for employment as a copy runner opened up at The Vancouver Sun and he took it as a summer job. He planned to become a chartered accountant for the Cates tugboat company. He took an extra year of high school in Grade 13 for university entrance. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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