When Hillcrest Lodge first opened for business in 1946 it was not meant to be a year-round operation. Summers were so busy with regular visitors and guests that Jack and Cis Mansell, who built the lodge with their sons Doug and Loyd, would “say goodbye to each other in May and hello in October.” In […][...]
In February of 1968 entertainment options for locals and visitors were limited. Alta Lake, as the area was still called, had a very small full-time population and comparatively little infrastructure. The Village was still serving as a town dump site and development in Creekside had really only just begun. The February edition of Garibaldi’s Whistler News […][...]
While flipping through the 1979 October/November issue of the Whistler Answer, I came across a fascinating story titled “The Whistler Lodge (1973-74) or the Heyday of a Cabaret.” I love the Whistler Answer for its bare all writing styles that would most definitely be deemed inappropriate in today’s local news. This story has all that quirkiness one expects from the […][...]