Ocean Cement has been operating out of Granville Island since 1917, and they are still going strong. It's a prime spot, right by downtown - within concrete-setting-time distance - and it's on the water to get materials easily. It helps keep the area with the market, art school and all the studios a bit more real than they might otherwise be. Plus they paint the cement trucks with funky designs. I saw one that was painted as a pickle today.
I was drawing there with the urban-sketchers meetup group, because the mobile park-in-a-dumpster that we call home-away-from-home was parked outside Emily Carr University. But I think "They" have realized how seditious a public drawing group is, because I noticed a sinister looking agent in camouflage-orange observing us carefully from behind the foliage on a nearby balcony.
Somehow I feel compelled to comment. Very funny. On a highly serious note, I want to suggest a trade of sandpapers against some veneers.
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