Was the unofficial Molson's staff bar.
Name a. bar you used to drink at that doesn't exist anymore
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Was there once. Almost got lucky. But didn't.
Chez Moi just east of Yonge and just south of Bloor if I remember.
I see here it became a lesbian hangout, if they are talking about the same place. Might as well have been for all the luck I had there....
Then & Now: Chez Moi - Then and Now: Toronto Nightlife History
DJ Dallas (centre, in Chez Moi T-shirt) and friends. Photo courtesy of Dallas Noftall. Article originally published January…
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The Sapphire, Richmond and Victoria, The coal bin, Wellington st. The Cava Bob, Yonge and Wellington, The Colonial, Yonge and Shuter, saw John Lee Hooker there, The Brown Derby, Yonge & Dundas, The Bellaire, Bloor & Bay, The Concord Tavern, Bloor West, saw Levon Helm and the Band, The Ports of Call, Yonge & Summerhill and Melonies on Grenville Avenue near Women's College Hospital which was the first pub in Toronto to allow you to walk inside the pub while holding a beer in your hand. Previously in Toronto the Good you had to sit at the bar or at your table to have your drink at every pub in the city. Also, back in the day, pubs closed at 11PM. That is why it was Toronto the good. Also the Orchard Park Hotel on Queen East across the old Woodbine Racetrack where they had a separate entrance called, Ladies and Escorts as did many other pubs where girls could only go inside if they were with a guy.
The Prince Charles on Yonge & Carlton huge gay bar.Was there once. Almost got lucky. But didn't.
Chez Moi just east of Yonge and just south of Bloor if I remember.
I see here it became a lesbian hangout, if they are talking about the same place. Might as well have been for all the luck I had there....
Then & Now: Chez Moi - Then and Now: Toronto Nightlife History
DJ Dallas (centre, in Chez Moi T-shirt) and friends. Photo courtesy of Dallas Noftall. Article originally published January…
Not you. I remember a girl I was going out with and she had Toronto Maple Hockey tickets from her work and took me to a game at MLG so afterwards I thought I would take her for a drink.So we want to the Prince Charles. Never When we entered and sat at a table, noticed there were only guy couples there and remembered that it was a gay bar. I told the girl and we should leave but she ,being from Scotland, LOL wanted to stay and kept pointing at various people saying to me, Is he gay, are they gay?and why are pairs of men going upstairs together to the dance floor??? Never went out with her again. Too bad, the tickets were great.
Sounds vaguely homophobic. I actually went there once and had a beer. Found the atmosphere refreshingly tranquil. People were congenial. I agree with an ex bouncer I worked with for a while. He found that bars with a high gay contingent were much more pleasant to work in. Everybody got along. Less of this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_q8xnTbJk
Uncle Sam's in Buffalo? MIGHT be that it was closed by the time you were of age...I am an old dude. LOL
I actually never hit too many Buffalo bars.
They had an Uncle Sams on Lundy’s Lane. It was beside the downer. It’s actually Seductions now. Tons of live bands went through there.
Back in the day…. Live music was everywhere, and seeing a huge act cut their teeth right before they hit it big happened all the time.
Now all new music is computer generated. Hardly any great live club music. Fucking glorified karaoke has ruined things.
Not homophobic at all but a fact that it was a gay bar and It did not dawn on me when I took my date for a drink who apparently never experienced going to that type of bar. She happened to be more interested in looking at the other people there than me. Never saw her again. By the way, I totally agree that gay bars were always safe places to have a drink and not worry of rights breaking out.
I remember at age 19 my uncle's would take me to the Parkdale Hotel on Queen St. West. We sat with 4 others at a table, waiter dropped a dozen small glasses of beer, 8 ounce glasses. Price per glass, 15 cents each, way back in 1959.
Lol That dive strip place started out as a barber shop. Used to get my hair cut there when I was a kid many moons ago. The first place I had a drink was the Cloverleaf hotel on Evans just west of the 427.
