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[Victoria Watcher]

yes in the ingraham was “the ingy” just a short nickname for the pub. it was a very large open room. working guys kind of place.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 October 2018 - 03:15 PM.

[Mystic-Pizza]

Who else used to frequent STEAMERS. That place was there on Yates for many years. Lots of live bands and pool tables. 

 

Also Merlin's was quite a regular joint for a while

Edited by Mystic-Pizza, 07 October 2018 - 06:35 PM.

[LJ]

The Old Forge, Tillicum bicycle club, Churchill hotel,  BBJ, waking up and trying to figure out where you left your car and who you were with and where you were. Good times.

[Bingo]

The Old Forge, Tillicum bicycle club, Churchill hotel,  BBJ, waking up and trying to figure out where you left your car and who you were with and where you were. Good times.

 

Maybe it was good times back then but today it doesn't work for me.

[Mystic-Pizza]

Who remembers the "Muffin Break" ? There were a few around Victoria.

 

This was believe it or not before Victoria even had a single Tim Horton's.

 

Time Horton's of course eventually drove Muffin Break out of town.

[grantpalin]

^-- I also remember the muffin stalls that were present at Hillside and Mayfair Malls way back in the day.

[Nparker]

^-- I also remember the muffin stalls that were present at Hillside and Mayfair Malls way back in the day.

This is where I remember seeing them.

[Mike K.]

Wasn't there one on Fort near Douglas where the chocolate place is now?

[Victoria Watcher]

a popular one was at fort and foul bay. they co-existed with tim h when tim h was just donuts.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 October 2018 - 03:32 AM.

[Jackerbie]

^-- I also remember the muffin stalls that were present at Hillside and Mayfair Malls way back in the day.

 

 

This is where I remember seeing them.

 

Those were Mmmuffins, right? I did a double take when I stumbled across one in downtown Montreal a few years ago!

[Nparker]

Those were Mmmuffins, right?...

They might have been. I never paid that much attention to the muffin mania era.

[Cassidy]

Weren't the mall locations "Marvellous Muffins"?

[Rob Randall]

When they were at Hillside and Mayfair they were Mmmarvellous Mmmuffins. Then the chain went through various buyouts and name changes and became mmmuffins before being swallowed up by the same corporation that bought out Timothy's Coffee. According to Google there may be a few rogue ones still hanging on.

Edited by Rob Randall, 17 October 2018 - 07:11 AM.

[Dinya]

My friend used to work for locally owned Muffins N' More (I think that was the name).  There used to be one at the corner of Langley & Broughton and another across from London Drugs which is now a Dolce Vita.  This would have been the early 90s.

[Mystic-Pizza]

Muffin Break......... I remember the one beside the Royal Bank at Tillicum and Burnside where the Chinese restaurant is. I also remember the Muffin Break on Shelbourne across from the Fairways where I think the Panago is.  And I think there was one at Fort & Foul bay in that little plazza but can't be sure.

[Victoria Watcher]

will any nightclubs re-open after all this?

 

probably the one in the strathcona hotel will.  since the owners own the building.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 June 2020 - 05:36 AM.

[FogPub]

After reading this whole thread (and why's it here rather than in the Pubs-Bars section?) there's a few old-closed places I've not seen mentioned:

 

The Kings (later became Steamers, which was mentioned above) - I never once went in there sober because you just never knew who or what you'd meet, but always a good time!

The Douggy - lowbrow pub in the old Douglas Hotel (now Rialto), same type of crowd as The Kings but for some reason never as much fun to hang around with, closed maybe ten years ago

Hugo's - brewpub by day, nightclub by night on (Courtney St?), was my go-to place for years until it closed in 2008-ish; since then I've yet to find a place anywhere near as good.

[Mike K.]

I agree, Hugo’s was something else. It comes up a lot in conversations about long lost places.

[nutsinmay]

Favourite watering hole: The Beaver - irreplacable. 

Favourite bar my bands played in: Harpo's.

 

Well, (said Regean-like)...not a bar, not a hotel, nor restaurant...

 

The Bounty Hunters Motorcycle Club...

 

Not sure when they took over those roadhouses at the Hillside/Douglas intersection behind (what I still call) the big ScotiaBank Building, on the corner. Basically a big parking lot now, but wth considerable construction, there, as I type this.

 

I have a vague memory cycling past it as a kid, making sure not to linger. If I recall correctly, the run-down, filthy, almost barrick-like structures were in a horse-shoe formation, with an earthen, dusty "courtyard" in the middle. It was even in my dreams one time.

 

No idea when they formed, but I know they came to an end (I'm pretty sure) in '80 - about a year after my sister stopped going out with Grease (Ron?), the club's "president" (gotta love their cute nomenclature). Actually one of the cooler b/fs she had - never talked down to me, making this ultra-geeky grade-niner feel like I was being treated wth respect. Hilarious seeing his hog parked in our tiny Gordon Head townhouse carport, replete with absolutely gleaming, customized, ridiculously-extended forks, forcing the bike, itself, to be situated extra high.

 

(Further goofy digression, if I can be indulged - newly-toughened sis advised dorky kid brother to always brandish a knife with blade down so that combatant's foot wouldn't dare kick it out. Also, fireworks at the time seemed harder to acquire, but at Hallowe'en, sis said Grease can line me up with a big box of'em, OR, "he can getcha a little whore, if ya want." I'm pretty sure I was poking my glasses further up the bridge of my nose when I opted for the fireworks.)

 

(...heh, and for those keeping score at home - sis turned out ok, still in the health information field after almost 40 years, with two kids with UVIC engineering degrees under their belt.)

 

Anyhoo, good that sis split that scene before the Nanaimo chapter of Satan's Angels came down and burnt BH's colours, (would not have liked to have viewed the fracas), and I believe Grease ended up dead a year or two after that, taking a builet to the head after a coke deal gone sideways, if I remember correctly.

 

So, I would be really interested if anyone has any photos of the hang-out - ANYTHING.

[Victoria Watcher]

I do not remember those buildings at all.