Ironic hipsters Irony is Waldorf brought popularity to the area which ironically brought in development, shutting down Waldorf.
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- Tommy Guererro, Search for Animal Chin
Ironic hipsters Irony is Waldorf brought popularity to the area which ironically brought in development, shutting down Waldorf.
"Ripping Styles, Holmes!"
- Tommy Guererro, Search for Animal Chin
How long till the new residents complain about the industrial noise in their backyard?
Why don't they just tear something down and build where people actually want to live,like granville island or the olympic village?
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Luv Affair
Haha … "Luv My Hair". Nobody but a few old retired guys cried when the Cecil and Marble Arch closed.
Those were fun places, by what I only miss is Fresgos after hours.
Hospital staff on break meets downtown Saturday night freak show!!
Kn.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.
Haha … "Luv My Hair". Nobody but a few old retired guys cried when the Cecil and Marble Arch closed.
Love Affair. Men's washroom with the big trough for urinal, and two guys coming out of a bathroom stall with one licking his fingers. lol slam dancers
I think The American is still going if you need a scuzzy place to drink beer.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Stamp
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
Love Affair. Men's washroom with the big trough for urinal, and two guys coming out of a bathroom stall with one licking his fingers. lol slam dancers
I think The American is still going if you need a scuzzy place to drink beer.
How about the Funky Winker Bean in Gastown? Is that place sanitized now? Serve staff walking around with 20 Little tiny glasses or draft beer on their trays. If you needed a stall you had to wait in line behind all the people waiting for a stall to freebase in. The Churchill Arms was another "working men's" bar.
I think The American is still going if you need a scuzzy place to drink beer.
You don't get out much do you.
Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
How about the Funky Winker Bean in Gastown? Is that place sanitized now? Serve staff walking around with 20 Little tiny glasses or draft beer on their trays. If you needed a stall you had to wait in line behind all the people waiting for a stall to freebase in. The Churchill Arms was another "working men's" bar.
Wendy still owns and runs that place, and it went through a renovation. Never been to it before the renovation, but it's not bad now. It's a major punk/metal venue (Wendy use to run the Cobalt before it changed).
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It's a major punk/metal venue (Wendy use to run the Cobalt before it changed).
Punk still exists?? I just assumed that, since Hard Core Logo (1996) was a film largely about the death of the Vancouver punk scene, punk in Vancouver was over and done!
Kn.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.
Punk still exists?? I just assumed that, since Hard Core Logo (1996) was a film largely about the death of the Vancouver punk scene, punk in Vancouver was over and done!
Kn.
Punk is dead! Joe Keithley (aka Joey Shithead) is going to be running for office (Provincial elections, NDP Coquitlam - Burke Mountain) in May:
Long live punk!
They did, or is 15yrs not long enough?
Admittedly, it sounds like they had issues at first getting things going, but it's cruising along pretty well now. Sounds like the lease was change to month-month in December. Pretty hard to book gigs, when you don't know if the building will be there when they show up.
You can't just get a loan for the huge amount of money that site is likely worth just because you've been doing well for the past 2 years. The tenants don't have a say in whether it's marked historical etc.
It doesn't need to prove to you or anyone else it was a successful business model, the attendance over the past 2 years already proves it.
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Obviously this is about profitability - if you make $ you can make it worthwhile for a) Landlords to rent to you. For example - why would you go from a 15 yr to a month to month unless you were financially distressed? Easy answer - either you were paid to or you had to, either case it doesn't say profit centre to me.
b) banks will lend to you. Banks want to look at two things - property value and ability to pay. the property value didn't change - but if you were profitable even for two years it says ability to pay.
Next point - many a packed place has gone tits up. Getting the crowds in the door is step 1 (a big one) getting them to drop $ is step 2, and step 3 is making the difference between the amount getting dropped and the amount you yourself are dropping as large as possible.Unfortunately, one or two out of three won't cut it.
Look no one wants to lose places like this, but it happens all the time. Up here we lose entire towns. People cry a bit but then they move on. What they shouldn't do is tell an individual citizen what he or she must do with their land or call others assholes because they don't see this as the most important issue of the day or even one that the government of our main city should spend its time on.
If you really like the dive bar atmosphere go open one up in a building you own, invite your friends sell them cheap beer (not to cheap see above) and live out your days.
How about the Funky Winker Bean in Gastown? Is that place sanitized now? Serve staff walking around with 20 Little tiny glasses or draft beer on their trays. If you needed a stall you had to wait in line behind all the people waiting for a stall to freebase in. The Churchill Arms was another "working men's" bar.
Never heard of the place.
There was a place on Davie called Numbers. Serious gay bar, but no one who could shoot pool. Quite the drug culture there too. They sold poppers at the bar (but I think that was legal).
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Stamp
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
Obviously this is about profitability - if you make $ you can make it worthwhile for a) Landlords to rent to you. For example - why would you go from a 15 yr to a month to month unless you were financially distressed? Easy answer - either you were paid to or you had to, either case it doesn't say profit centre to me.
b) banks will lend to you. Banks want to look at two things - property value and ability to pay. the property value didn't change - but if you were profitable even for two years it says ability to pay.Next point - many a packed place has gone tits up. Getting the crowds in the door is step 1 (a big one) getting them to drop $ is step 2, and step 3 is making the difference between the amount getting dropped and the amount you yourself are dropping as large as possible.Unfortunately, one or two out of three won't cut it.
Agreed that with the proper amount of mis-management you can screw up a business no matter how busy things are - but their profitability still didn't have anything to do with the place being sold. Maybe they could have got the mortgage, though I'm not convinced, but even if they could it's a big step. Just because I like the place I'm renting and I've got a good job doesn't mean I necessarily want to buy the place.
Also, Waldorf isn't a dive bar anymore - that was pre-2010 :)
Diegos - Severins.
Eesh, thanks for the flashback! I worked there for a few years in the early 90's
Punk still exists?? I just assumed that, since Hard Core Logo (1996) was a film largely about the death of the Vancouver punk scene, punk in Vancouver was over and done!
Kn.
Punk is huge in Vancouver right now (just ask famous Vancouver punk, Nardwuar). Bands are getting noticed by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Spin, etc with them being on their top ten lists. I've been covering it in photos since July. http://www.ryanrose.ca/series/vancouver-punk/
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