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watering holes
< on 5/31/2006 1:17 PM >
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this goes out to anyone who has lost a favorite watering hole
im too young to remember the edgewater but i had my places, Quai Sera was the best of em followed by the rock quest, excalibur, orchard house.

where were yours, some people here it was sona




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< Reply # 1 on 5/31/2006 9:27 PM >
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I haven't lost any for now. I'm too young... I mean too recently get the legal age



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< Reply # 2 on 5/31/2006 10:24 PM >
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My first love of a bar was The Boiler Room on Crescent street. It was actually the west half of what most people know as The Sir Winston Churchill Pub. In the early 70's Crescent street was different. You had the middle class types the street would become famous for but also bikers, junkies and assorted radicals. It was quite a sight to see a "meet" between Satan's Choice and The Vagabonds of Toronto on a summer weekend. If you can picture choppers parked on one side of the street going from de Maisonneve down to almost Ste. Catherine then you will get the idea.
Other memorable clubs were Poor Richard's and The Friar's Pub. The Boiler Room was appropriated by "sir winston" around 73-74 and Crescent street forever changed.

I was also sad at the closing of The Rainbow Bar & Grill in the late 70's. This was on Stanley street besides the Stanley Pub. It had been a biker bar called The Seven Steps. The Rainbow was different. It was the kind of place where a celebrity could walk in and nobody cared (well, most of em, lol). It had live entertainment and showed movies in the back room. One legend has it that Bob Dylan played the place around 1960 and slept on the floor of the Stanley Tavern ( as it was called then).

One other place that deserves mention from that era is The Mustache! Orignally an accordion type dance hall called Your Father's Mustache the place became Montreal's hardest of the hard rock bars. Some of the finest heavy hitting rock bands to ever hit this city played there. Basically you could only order house draft which was a big turn off for a lot of beer drinkers and legend had it that the beer was watered down but laced with PCB to gaurantee you a buzz. The Mustache was a tough place known as a Satan's Choice bar but basically you could go there without getting too much in to trouble. It had a legendary cheap tuesday night.
The Mustache was located on Closse street across from the Forum, so it is another powerful memory of a location in downtown Montreal that was at the heart of hockey and rock and roll!

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i went to the old munich too, i was only 16 at the time, an interesting place the kiddies would know it as the medley. charlie you must remember the edgewater? when it moved to sources and was called the edge then the cactus, and then the bomb blew the front off and now its bourbon street




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Nexus 94 - greatest rave ever, was held in then-abandoned wharehouses near the Lachine Canal with people doing bungee in the middle of the dancing area. WOW!

Metropolis when it was only a nightclub and I was underaged and the whole lighting ceiling equipments could go up and down during songs and end up about 5 inches from your head.

The Dome BEFORE it was taken over by the portugese (when they was a naked chick & guy dancing from the top floor and when there was a swing on top of the dance floor).

Sona from the opening until about 2000. (I have great, great memories of Cream 97 at the Olympic Stadium with fire jugglers and Carl Cox and of Celebration when it was held at Sona - must have been 1998?).

I still have to find the right place now that all those are gone/have changed. Aria sucks (I've spent $125 to spend last NYE' there with Deep Dish and it wasn't cool AT ALL). The only solutions I found : go to Space, Pacha and Il Divino in Ibiza.

Ahh, Sona, those were the days...






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Another place that deserves some mention is Place Jacques Cartier or whatever it s called these days, LOL. Yes, we are today seeing the nth version of Old Montreal. The main places to go to were the Hotel Nelson and the Hotel Iroquis. The Nelson was the more hard core and it was sort of the drop in place for people from all over Quebec coming to the city. Hard to believe there was that kind of partying going on there during Drapeau's reign at City Hall. Over the years there have been tons of bars/clubs/taverns in Old Montreal that were pretty cool for a while.

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my friends and i when we were 14 went to club lesprit and got in, we were SOOO cool lol. rockin out in a former funeral home




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Ah yes, Place Jacques-Cartier, that's where we'd go after work all the staff of SOS Labyrinth. SOS Labyrinth was also great working there. One thing people don't know is that next to it was an abandoned auditorium. We used it for staff parties! It was fun.

By the way (me and old theatres...), there's a new restaurant opening this week in the old Mtl, it's called "Le garde manger" and in the bar of that place, you will find... The Palace's original chandelier!!!






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< Reply # 8 on 6/18/2006 12:10 PM >
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The Palace Theater chandelier?

I wonder where it s been all this time?

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Mad Hatters before we lost it to Cresent street... I used to like the older location.




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