First place I drank!
Any of you ever stagger down the road from The First to The Second?
Name a. bar you used to drink at that doesn't exist anymore
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Any of you ever stagger down the road from The First to The Second?
Before that, the bar downstairs was called The Richmond Inn!
Other Richmond Hill rough, biker bars: The Blackhawk Motor Inn, the downstairs bar in The Galaxy Tavern, Pop's Tavern.
Didn't used to go to the Lakeview as often, but when it was really hot in August, beer at the tables out front were the best.
Fantasia was the ultimate strip joint back in the day. Beauty girl sitting with me having a beer, unzipped my pants fondling my balls, I trying not to look too exited and noticed a bunch of guys staring at us. She then said, next time you come wear loose jogging pants, I did. Also, went to the washroom, on my way had to step over a used condom laying on the floor, wasn't mine. Another time, just sitting by myself having a beer when a group of cops came in raiding the place. Thankfully I was behaving myself. It was definitely the most notorious disgusting strip joint ever. LOVED IT.
Gimlets, nudie bar at Victoria and Lombard, a stripper there was the inspiration for the movie "Flash Dance"
from wikipedia:
"Flashdance was inspired by the real-life story of Maureen Marder, a construction worker/welder by day and dancer by night at Gimlets, a Toronto strip club. Like Alex Owens in the film, she aspired to enroll in a prestigious dance school. Tom Hedley wrote the original story outline for Flashdance, and on December 6, 1982, Marder signed a release document giving Paramount Pictures the right to portray her life story on screen, for which she was given a one-off payment of $2,300. Flashdance is estimated to have grossed more than $200 million worldwide. In June 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco affirmed a lower court's ruling that Marder gave up her rights to the film when she signed the release document in 1982. The panel of three judges stated in its ruling: "Though in hindsight the agreement appears to be unfair to Marder—she only received $2,300 in exchange for a release of all claims relating to a movie that grossed over $150 million—there is simply no evidence that her consent was obtained by fraud, deception, misrepresentation, duress or undue influence." The court also noted that Marder's attorney had been present when she signed the document."
from wikipedia:
"Flashdance was inspired by the real-life story of Maureen Marder, a construction worker/welder by day and dancer by night at Gimlets, a Toronto strip club. Like Alex Owens in the film, she aspired to enroll in a prestigious dance school. Tom Hedley wrote the original story outline for Flashdance, and on December 6, 1982, Marder signed a release document giving Paramount Pictures the right to portray her life story on screen, for which she was given a one-off payment of $2,300. Flashdance is estimated to have grossed more than $200 million worldwide. In June 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco affirmed a lower court's ruling that Marder gave up her rights to the film when she signed the release document in 1982. The panel of three judges stated in its ruling: "Though in hindsight the agreement appears to be unfair to Marder—she only received $2,300 in exchange for a release of all claims relating to a movie that grossed over $150 million—there is simply no evidence that her consent was obtained by fraud, deception, misrepresentation, duress or undue influence." The court also noted that Marder's attorney had been present when she signed the document."
