Hollywood Tonight
#1
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:11 PM
I'm a regular-customer of Hollywood Tonight for coffee, tea, and snacls. It also has a comfortable leather-sofa and tables and chairs for people to sit upon while talking. Further, for those moments when the conversation lags, it has a large plasma-screen television that plays the latest films.
Come on down. Hollywood Tonight is located on Yates Street near Quadra Street. It's next-door to Floyd's Diner.
Denis F. Oliver
#2
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:21 PM
We all want to know what new business will be going into Hollywood Tonight's old location across the street.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#3
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:25 PM
Your name rings a bell, but I'm not sure why? Are you a performing artist in town? Writer or musician?
Anyways, hope to see more of you on the site!
#4
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:39 PM
Denis F. Oliver
#5
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:49 PM
> Writer or musician?
- I couldn't be perceived as a performing artist, unless my presentations to Victoria City Council count. I write editorial-letters to the Times-Colonist and Monday Magazine,all of which have been published. Essentially, I'm a socially and politically active man who wants to overthrow the Capitalist system, force Green measures upon society if it doesn't accept them willingly, and establish my birthday as a global holiday.
Denis F. Oliver
#6
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:53 PM
establish my birthday as a global holiday.
You mean you haven't figured that out yet? I've got three days in my honour.
Send me fifty dollars and I'll show you how. :wink:
#7
Posted 07 January 2007 - 10:55 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#8
Posted 07 January 2007 - 11:34 PM
> with horrible ground floor frontages with dirty mirrored windows and gated entrances.
- I'm opposed to anything but retail uses of street-level spaces.
#9
Posted 08 January 2007 - 07:19 AM
I agree in general with you about the street level uses but there are lots of grey areas. Like an accounting office for instance. I mean it is technically retail because you can walk in and purchase services but at the same time it looks like an office from the outside.
I have to say I am a little disapointed that this will be a government office though...
I wanted a brew pub
#10
Posted 08 January 2007 - 08:49 AM
I support vibrant mixed use because ground floor frontage that is strictly retail caters only to the consumption aspect of capitalism; that unless you have a wallet full of cash ready to buy stuff you have no reason to walk around downtown.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#11
Posted 08 January 2007 - 09:54 AM
> an accounting office for instance. I mean it is technically retail because you can walk in and
> purchase services but at the same time it looks like an office from the outside.
- Yes, there are grey areas. On the corner of Yates and Quadra there is a BCAA office that I find acceptable because it sells services to people, although it looks like an office when viewed through the windows on the Quadra Street side of it. Another acceptable "office" is the Department Of Vital Statistics office in the 800-Block of Fort Street. It's also an office, but, it sells a service. However, an example of an office that shouldn't be located at street-level is the chiropractor's-office located on Blanshard Street between View and Fort near the Italian delicatessan. When you look through its front-window, all you see is the office's waiting-room.
#12
Posted 08 January 2007 - 10:01 AM
I agree with the sentiment though.
#13
Posted 08 January 2007 - 10:02 AM
The one that really gets me, is the ground floor of the Centra Gas building. You could not create a less inviting street frontage. Especially along Fisgard Street.
#14
Posted 08 January 2007 - 08:46 PM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#15
Posted 08 January 2007 - 09:11 PM
I like that chiropractors office, and on occasion avail myself of the services of the younger Dr. Elder. Why that would be unacceptable, and a government office would be considered acceptable kind of leaves me stumped.
There's only so much shopping that people can do. This fixation on retail is kind of silly. Too much and we start to see way to many vacancies.
When there's not enough retail, you start to see conversions like what happened to the government offices that have now been turned into the BCAA 'retail' space on Yates and Quadra.
Oddly enough, the free market works well at this sort of stuff, and centralized government planning tends to utterly fail.
#16
Posted 08 January 2007 - 09:41 PM
Exactly. It's not as if retailers can run shops as city beautification projects, or as a hobby.There's only so much shopping that people can do. This fixation on retail is kind of silly. Too much and we start to see way to many vacancies.
#17
Posted 05 July 2011 - 09:47 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#18
Posted 05 July 2011 - 10:06 PM
#19
Posted 05 July 2011 - 10:44 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#20
Posted 06 July 2011 - 01:57 PM
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