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[Mike K.]

Can you just get to the last page already?

[Nparker]

Nothing says classy like hot dog eating and root beer drinking contests.

 

[AllseeingEye]

Oly's....never really got into that place and now i know why...hot dog eating contests? Ugh. Participated in a hot dog eating contest at work a few years back and couldn't even look at a hot dog for 5 years afterward. I think I went to Oly's all of once in my "clubbing years", had a beer and left. For a small city back in the day Victoria nevertheless attracted and featured some pretty good live bands.....

[VicHockeyFan]

Oly's....never really got into that place and now i know why...hot dog eating contests? Ugh. Participated in a hot dog eating contest at work a few years back and couldn't even look at a hot dog for 5 years afterward. I think I went to Oly's all of once in my "clubbing years", had a beer and left. For a small city back in the day Victoria nevertheless attracted and featured some pretty good live bands.....

 

OMG, we went to Oly's all the time.  I specifically recall:

 

• Going in once as an 18-year-old.  We all got IDed, but I'm like, "hey these guys are all 19, I must be too, right?"  Guy agreed.
• Two distinct sides, separated by a roll-up door, strippers one side, bands the other.  Different drink prices each side.
• They used to let you in free before 9pm, but they would give you a stamp if you left after, so we'd get the stamp on Friday night, then go to Hillside Mall stationery store and buy the $4 stamp, stamp all our friends that night.

[AllseeingEye]

My 'club years' were probably ages 18-31 VHF; from 20-25 I was at UVic so the bulk of my nocturnal activities were centered on campus and especially the student bar @ Felicitas where I bounced for 4 years. We only occasionally would venture downtown.

 

When I did venture off campus like most people I tend(ed) to be a creature of habit hanging out at the same clubs - The Thatch in Royal Oak to about age 21, Monty's Nightclub (pre-strip bar era) when we wanted to head off campus in the mid-80's, then later hung out mostly at Sweetwaters whenever I'd visit the rock while I was at UBC from '87-89. By 1991 I had pretty much wrapped up "club" life .

 

I moved back to YVR in 1997 and from then until 2001 when I moved back to YYJ yet again I mostly patronized west side pubs in Kitsilano with the occasional foray to the Yale Hotel to catch my blues fix or the Commodore for live entertainment.

[rjag]

My 'club years' were probably ages 18-31 VHF; from 20-25 I was at UVic so the bulk of my nocturnal activities were centered on campus and especially the student bar @ Felicitas where I bounced for 4 years. We only occasionally would venture downtown.

 

When I did venture off campus like most people I tend(ed) to be a creature of habit hanging out at the same clubs - The Thatch in Royal Oak to about age 21, Monty's Nightclub (pre-strip bar era) when we wanted to head off campus in the mid-80's, then later hung out mostly at Sweetwaters whenever I'd visit the rock while I was at UBC from '87-89. By 1991 I had pretty much wrapped up "club" life .

 

I moved back to YVR in 1997 and from then until 2001 when I moved back to YYJ yet again I mostly patronized west side pubs in Kitsilano with the occasional foray to the Yale Hotel to catch my blues fix or the Commodore for live entertainment.

 

 

I seem to remember you rant about the #5 Orange   

[AllseeingEye]

I seem to remember you rant about the #5 Orange 

Ssshh you! Ok I admit I do recall at least 1-2 trips to N5O waaaay back in the mists of time; also a few sojourns to the Fraser Arms and the old BlueBoy on SE Marine Drive - where "mitzi" missed our table with one of her infamous ping pong balls by less than a foot once upon a time.

 

I'm probably one of the few people I know who got kicked out of all places the Biltmore Hotel on Kingsway - and yes it was actually as bad as the name implies - after a major brawl and survived to talk about it. Now those were the days lad......!

[LJ]

Nothing says classy like hot dog eating and root beer drinking contests.

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How do you drink a root bear? Do you need an extra big straw?

[VicHockeyFan]

Heckler's for sale $245,000

 

https://www.realtor....382099/Victoria

[Nparker]

Heckler's for sale $245,000

Is that price a joke? 

[VicHockeyFan]

20 years ago this week.

 

 

 

 

[Sparky]

^ Souled Out

 

The acid soul revue.

 

Priceless

[Jill]

I think I was at the Zumpano show.

[AllseeingEye]

Suddenly felt kinda old looking at the "Vertigo" ad; that UVic pub-bar space was known as "Felicitas" when I went there in the 80's and where I bounced to 1986. It didn't become Vertigo until well into the 90's and I know at that it was closed several years ago (I think) to be converted into additional cubicles and office space. Too bad - the UVic students of today have no idea what they're missing, lol.....

[Rob Randall]

January 1991. The first public performance by a new Seattle band called Mookie Blaylock, which would soon change its name to Pearl Jam.

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[AllseeingEye]

Worthwhile researching and reading up on the PJ - Mookie Blaylock connection and the "how and why" at least for a short while the band opted to adopt the troubled NBA player's name if not his persona....

[Nparker]

Suddenly felt kinda old looking at the "Vertigo" ad; that UVic pub-bar space was known as "Felicitas" when I went there in the 80's...

I'm so old I thought it was still called Felicitas.

[Sparky]

I'm sorry, but I still get a little aroused when the stories about the old bar scene start to resurface.

 

I'll be right back.

[AllseeingEye]

I'm sorry, but I still get a little aroused when the stories about the old bar scene start to resurface.

 

I'll be right back.

Nooooooo - unfortunately some things can never be un-seen......

[Jill]

I'm so old I thought it was still called Felicitas.

 

The pub is still called Felicitas. When the UVSS expanded the SUB, the expansion included a club space, called Vertigo.