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Collingwood Corner: Barbeque Super Serve at 3075 Kingsway, 1932

BY LORETTA HOUBEN

The Barbeque Super Serve at 3075 Kingsway in 1932. Photo source: BC Directories online
The Barbeque Super Serve at 3075 Kingsway in 1932. Photo sources: Vancouver Archives

These two photos from the Vancouver Archives show a glimpse of Kingsway near Spencer Street in 1932. Notice that a hot chicken sandwich is advertised for 30 cents!

A close-up up the Barbeque Super Serve restaurant with a special for the hot chicken sandwich for 30 cents!

The BC Directories online through the Vancouver Public Library traces the barbeque restaurant all the way back to 1928. It was at 3075 Kingsway from 1932 until 1955.

The rest of the directories aren’t digitized, so I’d have to visit the library downtown in order to check out 1956 and onwards to see when the restaurant disappeared.

The restaurant started out at 2445 Kingsway. City streets were renumbered in 1930. For a while it was 3045 Kingsway, until changing to 3075 Kingsway.

Today, in 2023, the Cassandra Hotel is at this location near Spencer Street, opening in 1978. The Big O Tires shop is here, too.

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October 2023 issue of RCC News is here

Crisp nights, endless rain and colourful leaves. Fall brings change all around us. Read about some of the changes in our neighbourhood in the latest issue of the Renfrew-Collingwood Community News, which has been one constant here for more than 25 years now.

Download the new issue.

In this issue:

  • The story of Big P
  • The other guy’s opinion: What used to be a minute is now a second
  • Collingwood Corner: Barbeque Super Serve in 1932 at 3075 Kingsway
  • Graham Bruce Elementary School – Their community field threatened by subdivision
  • Staff changes at RCC News – Longtime editor Julie Cheng steps down
  • The Chairman returns – RCC News celebrates 25 years
  • Read On! Pumpkin mania and Canadian Thanksgiving

Do you have a local story to tell or an event to share? We’d love to hear about it! Email rccnews-editorial@cnh.bc.ca.

The deadline for the November 2023 issue is October 10.

We welcome story submissions from 300 to 400 words long. Accompanying photos must be high resolution in a jpg file at least 1 MB large and include a photo caption and the name of the photographer.

Note: The PDF file of this issue was updated on Oct. 29, 2025 to remove the CNH Highlight page at the request of staff.