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|   Peach - Penticton, British Columbia
in Ginormous Everyday Objects The Penticton Peach is right on the Okanagan Lake beach on Lakeshore Drive. You can visit the Peach at anytime, though it becomes an ice cream shop for only five months of the year. posted by:  T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 1/6/2016 last visited: never |
 view galleryE0.2 km |  Penticton Peach - Penticton, BC
in Giants of Commerce The Penticton Peach is right on the Okanagan Lake beach on Lakeshore Drive. You can visit the Peach at anytime, though it becomes an ice cream shop for only five months of the year. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 9/29/2021 last visited: never |
 view galleryE0.6 km |  FIRST - Concrete Block Buildings in Penticton, BC
in Superlatives Three individual buildings, the Dragon's Den heritage site contains the first two concrete block buildings to be erected in Penticton. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 9/27/2021 last visited: never |
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| ONLY - Wood Framed Building on Main Street - Penticton, BC in Superlatives Possibly the oldest hotel building in the City of Penticton, the Palace Hotel is at least the oldest wood framed building on the city's Main Street. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 11/18/2021 last visited: never |
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|  S.S. Sicamous — Penticton, BC
in Satellite Imagery Oddities The S.S. Sicamous ran up and down Okanagan Lake daily from Penticton north to Vernon (then known as Okanagan Landing) until 1935. It was retired from service in 1937. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 2/20/2016 last visited: never |
 view galleryW0.8 km | LARGEST - Surviving Sternwheeler in British Columbia in Superlatives On the beach along Lakeshore Drive West in Penticton, the S. S. Sicamous made her last commercial run down Okanagan Lake nearly 80 years ago, in 1937. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 12/21/2015 last visited: never |
 view galleryW0.8 km | ONLY - Surviving Steam Tug in the Interior of BC in Superlatives Built in Ontario in 1914 and assembled in Vernon, the S.S. Naramata sailed the Okanagan for over half a century, pushing barges up and down the lake. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 12/21/2015 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE1 km | FIRST-OLDEST - church in Penticton, BC in Superlatives The first church built in Penticton, this little church was operated as St. Saviour's Anglican Church from 1905 until the completion of the new St. Saviour's Anglican in 1930. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 12/24/2015 last visited: never |
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|  PENTICTON - Penticton, BC
in Letters on Hills One of the most visited and most photographed spots in Penticton, this is also one of the highest spots in the city. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 11/12/2021 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE2.4 km | ONLY - View of its Type in the Western World - Penticton, BC in Superlatives One of the most visited and most photographed spots in Penticton, this is also one of the highest spots in the city. This is the ONLY Place outside of Europe from which one may view a city bounded on each end by lakes, as well as both lakes. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 11/12/2021 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE2.4 km |  PENTICTON - Penticton, BC
in Readable From Above Visible from across Okanagan Lake on Highway 97, this large sign greets visitors arriving from north of Penticton. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 10/12/2013 last visited: 3/27/2014 |
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| OLDEST - Oak Tree in Naramata, BC in Superlatives On the west side of Third Street midway between Robinson and Ritchie Avenues, this old Oak has been slowly increasing both its height and its girth for at least 86 years, as of 2015. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 11/13/2015 last visited: never |
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| TALLEST -- Tripod Orchard Ladder in the world in Superlatives The World's Tallest Tripod Orchard Ladder is located at 17208 Bentley Road in Summerland. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 12/12/2012 last visited: 1/28/2014 |
 view galleryNW14.5 km | World's Tallest Tripod Orchard Ladder - Summerland, British Columbia. in Ginormous Everyday Objects The World's Tallest Tripod Orchard Ladder is located at 17208 Bentley Road in Summerland. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 9/12/2012 last visited: 1/5/2014 |
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| LARGEST - Radio Observatory in Canada - Kaleden, BC in Superlatives No, it wasn't developed to spy on radios, but on the rest of the universe in the radio frequency spectrum. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 12/12/2015 last visited: never |
 view galleryS20.1 km | LARGEST - Radio Telescope in Canada - Kaleden, BC in Superlatives In 2013 construction got underway on a new radio telescope, nicknamed CHIME, at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near the small town of Kaleden, BC. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 8/27/2022 last visited: never |
 view galleryS20.1 km |  Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory - Kaleden, BC, Canada
in Super Fund Sites No, it wasn't developed to spy on radios, but on the rest of the universe in the radio frequency spectrum. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 1/28/2022 last visited: never |
 view galleryS20.1 km | White Lake Observatory - Kaleden BC in Satellite Imagery Oddities No, it wasn't developed to spy on radios, but on the rest of the universe in the radio frequency spectrum. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 2/20/2016 last visited: never |
 view galleryS26.1 km | Adirondack Chair - Oliver, British Columbia in Giants of Commerce This Adirondack Chair is just one of many along Hwy. 97 from Osoyoos to Kelowna advertising Osoyoos Cottages. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 8/4/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryN32.7 km | Golf Ball and Tee - Peachland, British Columbia in Ginormous Everyday Objects This Golf Ball and Tee is located just of Hwy. 97 and Ponderosa Drive about 2.5 km north of Peachland. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 12/17/2015 last visited: never |
 view galleryS34.4 km | ONLY - Oliver’s only public swimming area - Oliver, British Columbia in Superlatives Rotary Park overlooking Tuc-El-Nuit Lake is located on Lakeside Drive. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 7/30/2020 last visited: never |
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| OLDEST - LAST - Working Pioneer Mill in BC - Keremeos, BC in Superlatives This water powered grist mill, built in 1877, continues to grind wheat into flour today. The mill uses an overshot water wheel and water taken from a stream which flows by the mill. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 8/16/2014 last visited: never |
 view galleryS35.7 km |  Oliver Post Office Box 666 - Oliver, British Columbia
in 666 Sightings Oliver Post Office Box 666 is in the first row of boxes as you enter the post office. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 7/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryS36.4 km | ONLY - Remaining Intact Structure in Fairview, BC in Superlatives The last building to attest to the life and times of the town of Fairview is this, once the home of the respected and admired Judge James Robert Brown. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 11/10/2021 last visited: never |
 view galleryN36.5 km | ONLY - Operational Miniature Sawmill in Canada - Westbank, BC in Superlatives Given that Westbank was home to BK-Hunters for many years, it seems only fitting that we should finally get around to waymarking its museum. posted by: T0SHEA location: British Columbia, Canada date approved: 3/1/2017 last visited: never |
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