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[Mike K.]

Are the windows still boarded up?

[Rob Randall]

That building at Quadra and View is still being worked on. I assume it's still going to be a salon. 

 

Also I noticed the old gaming store at the entrance to University Heights is being framed out for a new tenant. Small cubicles.

[A Girl is No one]

Are the windows still boarded up?

Yes but people were taking materials in the other day. A few days before it wasn’t boarded up and I saw workers inside.

[Kapten Kapsell]

Chinatown Fan Tan Trading may close next month: https://www.cheknews...-summer-820431/

[Victoria Watcher]

Chinatown Fan Tan Trading is where everyone in Victoria would go when out-of-town company visited.

 

It was like something out of Harry Potter, a never-ending maze of cramped chaos and colour. Tea whisks, kites and lanterns fought for space with antique candle snuffers. Rosewood turtles nestled beside $5.99 sunglasses and vintage Asian porcelain, all of it crammed on the banks of a narrow retail river that meandered room by room from Fisgard Street to Fan Tan Alley.

 

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Fan Tan Trading’s current owner is Grathy Li, who bought the store three years ago when emigrating from northern China. Turns out she got some bad advice, and has fallen prey to an immigration rule that required her to be employed, but not self-employed, to stay in Canada. Long story short, she is moving to school in New Brunswick to satisfy the authorities.

 

The business has been a tough go, anyway. Its core customers are tourists, absent during COVID. Schoolkids still show up, looking for the real-life setting of Julie Lawson’s book White Jade Tiger, but people complain that the shop isn’t the same now that they can’t wander all the way out the back. Li has been closing the store on Wednesdays and Sundays, and only opening it from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on other days. If a new owner can’t be found, it will shut at the end of July.

 

“I feel so sad because it’s going to close down in my hands,” Li says.

 

 

 

 

 

 

bad advice but i guess the family is not short of money.  she will be OK.

 

https://www.timescol...hing-1.24332133

 

 

 

 

 

It might be Canada’s oldest intact Chinatown — it was designated a national historic site in 1995 — but it has shrunk from half a dozen blocks to, roughly, one. The visibly Chinese presence is limited largely to the top half of Fisgard between Government and Store streets.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 June 2021 - 06:59 AM.

[Kapten Kapsell]

Yellowjacket (comics and games) is moving to new digs on Broughton just off Douglas Street:

[grantpalin]

I found it amusing there being three comic book stores on the same block of Johnson St. Now they will be two.

[Rob Randall]

Memories...

 

 

 

 

Edited by Rob Randall, 19 June 2021 - 06:47 AM.

[Mike K.]

Classic. The was around the time of the Ogden Point windmill, was it not?

[A Girl is No one]

Memories...

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Cool! Does VV sponsor anything these days?

[Victoria Watcher]

I think it still sponsors the annual harbour boob cruise.

[Victoria Watcher]

I think it still sponsors the annual harbour boob cruise.

https://www.timescol...aters-1.1272194

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 June 2021 - 10:14 AM.

[Rob Randall]

It started off fine, but the last year it was mostly shirtless middle-aged men weighing on average 220 so technically there were a lot of boobs visible, just not female.

[Nparker]

It started off fine, but the last year it was mostly shirtless middle-aged men weighing on average 220 so technically there were a lot of boobs visible, just not female.

Moobs.

[Rob Randall]

Yes. Actually, if you squint they're not too bad.

[Sparky]

I miss Chicken.

[LJ]

It started off fine, but the last year it was mostly shirtless middle-aged men weighing on average 220 so technically there were a lot of boobs visible, just not female.

Whatever floats your boat.

[Rob Randall]

^After a few beers, a boob is a boob, I'm not complaining.

[Mike K.]

Hmmm. I think that was the other Vibrant Victoria, and I try to stay out of her way. The only other sponsorship on the books is Randall’s photoshop classes.

[Kapten Kapsell]

The Root Cellar in Cook Street Village will be having an on-site job fair this Saturday with on-the-spot interviews; perhaps they will be open by August ?

Link: http://therootcellar.ca/opportunities/