Despite its antique look and archaic technology, the Gastown Steam Clock is of a much younger generation.
Efforts, instead, were turned towards refurbishing the historic buildings that had fallen into disrepair.
So local merchants and property owners banded together and raised $58,000 for Saunders to build the antique-looking clock.
The Gastown Steam Clock became only the second steam-powered clock ever constructed.
Somehow, the plate then drove the mechanism.
The clock was installed above the door, and the pub became known as the Steam Clock Tavern.
Inshaws establishment did such a roaring trade that the tavern eventually became a music hall in the early 1880s.
The steam engine is also responsible for the whistles and, of course, the escaping steam.
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Sources:Wikipedia/www.cbcmusic.ca/Inside Vancouver/Wikipedia/www.vancouversun.com
