Yes, the address really is 666. This building was finalized in April of 1984 where my company took up residency on the 33rd and 32nd floor. I was part of the interior office design committee and had the priviledge of visting the top floors while under construction. We donned hard hats and rode the elevator up to the top from the outside of the building, slung on construction cables.

I had many a magnificant view from the top of the building watching the fog roll across the lower mainland while the top of the building would be in the early morning sunrise. Many times at night in the summertime, I would watch the fireworks for sea festival exploding over English Bay.

At that time, the pink marble boardroom table was a mere $40,000.00 and was about 25 ft long - the days of extravanza and high priced orignal artwork graced the office walls. It was a high tech office in those days and now it is 24 years old and still a beauty. My office faced east and I would often arrive downtown before 7am - enjoying the magnficant sunrises....often working until sunset.

During Expo 1986, the magnificant Concord from France streamed across the Vancouver Skyline and circled this magnificant pink tower shaking every window in the building. It was unbelieveable.

Upon merging with another company we had to move out of our beautiful tower and squeeze into the Vancouver Board of Trade tower with the company acquiring us. I then was involved in liquidating and auctioning the furnishings, and the magnificant boardroom table was too big to remove from the building and was dismantled and the marble sold in piecemeal. It was then I negotiated with a few movie companies to film movies and a couple of Televison series in this beautiful space until this under utilized floor space could be undertaken by another company when the expensive lease was due to expire. A cool building then and it still is 24 years later.

I loved working in this tower - the views were breathtaking!

Avoiding steep ticket prices to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony in BC Place, my friends and I joined the majority of Vancouverites and visitors on the streets. Every bar, restaurant and Olympic Pavilion seemed to be showing the ceremony on big TV screens. Livecity Yaletown in David Lam Park was at capacity so we caught the athletes’ entrances, Nelly Furtado performing with Bryan Adams and more on TV at The Hub bar before heading down to False Creek. Across the water, the Athletes’ Village and Vancouver’s globe-shaped Science World were gloriously lit up.
As we passed the backstage area of BC Place, dancers still in costume were streaming out ready to party. A surreal case of art and reality colliding. After stopping for a curry at the Plaza of Nations food stalls, we continued along False Creek to Ontario House at Concord Place. Unforgettable ‘wow’ moments followed as, on the huge outdoor screens we watched Wayne Gretzky light the Olympic cauldron, just as to our left, an enormous burst of red fireworks exploded into the night sky above BC Place. Quite literally, the city went wild.