Missing Heritage: Trader Vic’s

In the late 1980s when I worked at the Vancouver Stock Exchange we’d sometimes hangout at Trader Vic’s, the Polynesian-style bar and restaurant that sat in the parking lot of the Westin Bayshore.

It’s been gone since 1999—taken to Vancouver Island and left to rot.

I was reminded of Trader Vic’s again when I was reading Aaron Chapman’s Vancouver After Dark and looking at the photo of the building disappearing on a barge underneath the Lion’s Gate bridge.

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