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Originally Posted by Vin
Amen to that! Like the second Hotel Vancouver across the street on West Georgia back in the days. Guess what replaced it? A box and a urinal!
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True - but a bit misleading.. The Second Hotel Vancouver was replaced by a surface parking lot for decades. Here it is in a late 1960s Vancouver Archives image. [
larger image here]. The site had been vacant for 20 years - [
1949 image here]. So the idea for the Pacific Centre came quite a bit later - the second hotel was torn down because the newer Hotel Vancouver was more than enough hotel for the modest city of the day, and after it had been used as temporary housing for the homeless, there wasn't any obvious use for it.