We had recently some guests over that stayed in the Rosedale Hotel in Yaletown. I was a bit worried that this old hotel might be very outdated from the inside, but to our delight they had completely renovated the suite our guests were in.
Remember the time when building elevators still had ALL the floor numbers?
In the lobby there is an interesting aerial of surrounding Yaletown and Downtown from 1992.
The hotel itself is not even built yet when this aerial was taken, but the very first Yaletown concrete towers have started popping up. The one under construction is the Rosedale Residences next door. Note how many parking lots there used to be! The CBC concrete bunker is very visible and the lot left of it, is where the City Library nowadays is. This view has today dozens more residential towers with almost every lot built since then!
In Downtown not that much has changed. Telus Garden is currently going up on the bottom left corner of the picture. You can see the unbuilt Coal Harbour in the top left corner, but otherwise there are not many buildings missing east of Granville. It's interesting really how little development has happened in that area in the past 23 years.
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