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Originally Posted by troutman
Demolition of notorious Cecil Hotel starts this week
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...arts-this-week
Calgary's 'epicentre' of evil, death and darkness may soon become a frightening piece of the past
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...h-and-darkness
In its final year of operation, police were called 1,700 times. Weeks after its bar licence was revoked, calls to the area dropped by 91%.
“When I bought the place, the women were worse than the men,” Leo Silberman told the Calgary Herald before he passed away in 2007. “They fight like heck every day. Very, very rough.”
Share your Cecil Hotel memories here. I may write a song about it - "Eulogy For The Cecil Hotel". Weakerthans style.
I will try and dig up old Cecil Hotel stories I told here before.
Reddit Memories:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...oryexperience/
"saw a guy with a knife stabbed into his ass cheek"
"guy singing a Motorhead song in exchange for a small glass of beer"
"seeing a guy stumbling to the Cecil...beer in hand in an undershirt. Rephrase that...wearing ONLY the undershirt"
"the first place I was mugged"
"bikers started giving his friend a hard time about being bald"
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OK I'm sorry but this just makes zero sense. There's no way police were called to this place an average of 4.65 times a day. Every day? Makes no sense.