From Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
When the main Post Office was built on West Georgia Street in the 1950s, it was the largest welded steel structure in the world. It was essentially a five-storey machine that covered an entire city block, wrapped in an International style exterior and capped with a rooftop helipad—which was used all of twice before someone did the math and figured that delivering mail by helicopter from the post office to Vancouver International Airport wasn’t a viable option.