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[Redd42]

It's not a wrestling academy, but someone does want to run a wrestling clinic from the shared space, it looks like.

 

Most recent post on the Carlton Project Facebook:

 

  https://www.facebook...arltonproject42

[Victoria Watcher]

Chelsea Green from Saanich is still wrestling.

https://www.timescol...nt-grad-4617510

[Victoria Watcher]

Apparently Sweetwater's was a famous club in Manhattan (I learned watching the Whitney Houston film this weekend).

 

Is that where the Victoria Sweetwater's got its name?

 

 

 

 

 

The announcement Saturday night of the passing of Whitney Houston took me straight back to the first time I heard her sing. It was around 1984 at Sweetwater’s, a defunct Manhattan nightclub located on 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

 

https://archive.nyti...-about-whitney/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 December 2022 - 04:23 PM.

[Mike K.]

The Cambie/Halfway House in Esquimalt is no more. The building has been razed.

[Victoria Watcher]

As one travels along the 800 block of Esquimalt Road you will pass by a pub and privately operated liquor store called the Cambie at the Esquimalt Inn. This modest building that houses both the pub and liquor store, may appear rather plain and ordinary, but underneath its worn exterior masks a lengthy and remarkable history for on this site 156 years ago opened a public house and the first brewery in Esquimalt. The Halfway House, as it was initially named, is the oldest business in Esquimalt still operating from its original location. Esquimalt Road was just a dirt trail back in 1860 and the town of Victoria was two years before incorporation when the Bland Family developed their property at 856 Esquimalt Road.

 

 

 

 

This article will trace the history of the Esquimalt Inn from its early beginnings when it was known as the Halfway House to its final years as a pub as plans to close the pub and redevelop the large property is in the works. The story of the history of this long established public house is told in four parts with this article as Part One, covering the early period from 1860 to 1888, Part Two, covering the era 1889, through prohibition to 1924, part III when the owners received their beer parlour licenses in 1925 to 1954, then the final part of the story of the Esquimalt Inn covers the years, 1955 until today 2016. Sit back and imagine yourself bellying up to the bar or relaxing at a table inside the Halfway House all those years ago when the pace of the world was slower and your pint of beer costs a nickel. I hope you enjoy your time discovering the history of the Esquimalt Inn.

 

https://raincoasthis...inn-part-i.html

 

 

 

 

 

1969 photo from City archives:

 

https://archives.vic...oad-renovations

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 January 2023 - 09:15 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

$5,900,000

 

further detail provided with Confidentiality Agreement. DO NOT APROACH TENANTS. Listing agreement. Clause 5A (i) altered Clause 5A (ii) (b) removed Clause 5A (iii) removed

 

https://www.realtor....ctoria-downtown

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 July 2023 - 06:29 AM.

[Nparker]

I'll make an offer if the seller promises to remove all that scrap lumber from around the exterior.

[Mike K.]

They can’t even snap an original photo for a $6 million listing, and use Google Streetview. Crazy times we live in.

[Ismo07]

I'll make an offer if the seller promises to remove all that scrap lumber from around the exterior.

 

They can’t even snap an original photo for a $6 million listing, and use Google Streetview. Crazy times we live in.

 

Odd the patio (on the street) has been gone for a while.  Maybe so it'll draw some attention.