When Goran Basaric first encountered the public spaces of Vancouver, he remembered the pictures he used to look at on the trains that took him to the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia when he was a child.

Fireside Truck Stop, Rancheria, Bear Flats Lodge, Lum 'n Abner's—just a few of the disappearing outposts along the Alaska Highway.

A selection of sourced images from Jonah Samson's book, "Yes Yes We're Magicians," the title of which is taken from a passage of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, "Waiting for Godot."