We have a few aereal photos here from the early 70s that show a white building ( about seven storeys tall, stretching right the way from York to University ), but I'm not sure if that is the Strathcona. I suspect not, because it looks as if it's on the site that was cleared for that wedge-shaped office building that went up in the '80s where University, York, and Front converge. Anyhow, it's immediately to the north of the slightly lower building that Gord Rayner did that jazzy wall mural on a few years later. There is a lower building to the north of it, too - which was more likely the Strathcona. It suggests to me that they added a few storeys to the hotel before they put that horrible siding over the whole shebang.