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Conference kaosws::canada

Title:	True North Strong & Free
Notice:	Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:	POLAR::RICHARDSON

Created:	Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1040
Total number of notes:	13668

971.0. "Another icon passes into history" by TROOA::SOLEY (Fall down, go boom) Wed Nov 08 1995 12:12

    Well, another icon has slipped into the past, first it was the Bunsen
    Burner and now it's the Spadina Hotel at the Corner of Spadina and King
    in Toronto. The upstairs bar "The Cabana Room" was the oldest vestiage
    of the Punk/New Wave scene of the late seventies. While other places of
    the same age focussed on touring acts from GB the Cabana Room was
    always steadfastly local. This place was my second living room, my wife
    had our wedding reception there (we were a lot cooler then). For
    folkies this place was also important as the genisis of the flying
    cloud folk club and film nuts will remember it as a long time home of
    Reg Hartt's show.
    
    Sigh

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
971.1		TROOA::COLLINS	Sick of the dealer's grin...	`Wed Nov 08 1995 12:28`	6
	What's the sccop? Is the whole place closing, or just the Cabana Room? Whadda drag; I always liked seeing bands in that room (although it been a few months since I was last there).
971.2		TROOA::SOLEY	Fall down, go boom	`Wed Nov 08 1995 19:38`	7
	Heard on the radio this AM, the whole place is gone into recievership. I was last there on October 28th and spent what will probably be by last of many nights holding up the pillar in front of the bar. The Cabana room was unique in it's game, it was certianly the longest running of Toronto's live music clubs (those that claim to be older like The Horsehsoe have had long closures and significant changes of management) and the most accessable for new bands.
971.3		TROOA::COLLINS	Me, fail English? Unpossible!	`Wed Nov 08 1995 21:33`	9
	Receivership? Oh, well then, don't give up hope yet. I've been in Toronto for ten years now, and during that time the closing of the El Mocambo has been an almost annual event. You're right about the "new bands" thing, though. Several of my friends' bands played there many times before they could get gigs elsewhere.
971.4		TROOA::COLLINS	Me, fail English? Unpossible!	`Fri Nov 10 1995 13:45`	9
	They said on CITY-TV last night that the current owners are trying to regroup, get some cash together, and renovate or redevelop the site. They said it might take as long as a month before they know what's happening, and couldn't really say whether or not the place would re-open basically as is, or be replaced.
971.5	never been there probably wont go	POLAR::WILSONC	born to agitate	`Fri Nov 10 1995 19:12`	4
	let it pass. lets not dominate popular history like sooo many boomer establishments try to do. change is good. let the children feel good about their own times and things. out with the old in with new and again and again.
971.6	What about the Isabella ?	LEMAN::shunya.geo.dec.com::dzialowski		`Mon Nov 13 1995 10:01`	1
	What ever happened with the Isabella Hotel ?
971.7		TROOA::COLLINS	Good idea Oh Lord!	`Mon Nov 13 1995 11:33`	7
	.6 As far as I know, it's still standing, and there is a gay bar called `Boots' operating on the main floor. I'm not 100% sure on that, though.
971.8		LEMAN::DZIALOWSKI	sharks gotta swim, bats gotta fly...	`Tue Nov 14 1995 05:45`	2
	re.-1 Sic transit gloria mundi...
971.9		POLAR::RICHARDSON	CPU Cycler	`Tue Nov 14 1995 10:51`	1
	<--- er, you complaining about public transit again?