LEDs + Lighting

Yale Beckons

Neon adds allure to this hotel’s nightclub.

Published

17 years ago

July 5, 2007

Steve Aust Signs of the Times July 2007 Issue

During the 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) opened the Yale Hotel as a bunkhouse for CPR workers who cleared land to lay tracks that helped develop then-fledgling Vancouver. Renamed the Colonial in 1889 after a fire claimed much of the city, it reclaimed its original moniker once again in 1911. During the late 1970s, the hotel’s management opened a blues-oriented nightclub; its rousing success transformed the local icon into a music mecca. The exposed-neon saxophone allures patrons into the club’s funky, inviting persona.

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