Taking apart a shelf in his carport, Ilia Boutoma discovered there was a design on the bottom of the wooden shelves.

He pieced the wooden slats together and they formed a sign for Starvin’ Marvin’s Discotheque, a popular Vancouver club in the 1970s. It was also somewhat infamous — the owner was murdered.

According to a Vancouver Sun story on July 19, 1982, Starvin’ Marvin Goldhar, 29, died after being “stabbed repeatedly in the heart” in an apartment on Cornwall Street in Kitsilano.

Evidently somebody was angry with him: Goldhar’s former house at 1906 West 25th Ave. had been firebombed the day before, when “two beer bottles filled with gasoline were thrown at the house.”

Newspaper reports said Goldhar had a dispute with someone over money.

Boutoma posted images of the sign and a newsp

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