08-19-2008, 07:46 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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St. Regis Hotel closing down... the Cecil to follow?
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...2-7a170cfaa65f
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The 95-year-old St. Regis Hotel will pour its last beer on Aug. 31, before its stacking chairs and video lottery terminals are replaced with office desks and developers' computer screens for The Bow tower's project office.
And with the city in negotiations to buy the similarly historic but seedier Cecil, it's last call for an era.
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What will be left to joke about if the Cecil shuts down too?!
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08-19-2008, 07:47 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by enthused
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Calgary loses yet another landmark.....or something like that.
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08-19-2008, 08:15 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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There's always the T&C.
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08-19-2008, 08:35 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by fotze
The Bow Ho
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Where you have to pay for your food before they bring it to you, and the meals are served on paper plates with plastic utensils.
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08-19-2008, 11:47 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
There's always the T&C.
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T&C?
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08-19-2008, 11:54 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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The Town & Country. Great little pub.
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08-19-2008, 02:44 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhettzky
The Town & Country. Great little pub.
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how can i be from calgary and still have no idea what you're talking about??? where is it?
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08-19-2008, 02:57 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Originally Posted by mariners_fever
how can i be from calgary and still have no idea what you're talking about??? where is it?
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Forest Lawn, it's probably the only bar in the city where guys go to the bathroom in groups. More of a safety issue than a gossip one.
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08-19-2008, 03:24 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Does Cecil Hotel charge rooms by the hour, or is that just a rumor?
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08-19-2008, 03:25 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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^^ Fotze, can you check with your mom on that one for us?
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08-19-2008, 03:41 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Is the Regis where it says "probably the best damn tavern in the world" - Paulie 2002 or something like that?
I love that quote. What's Paulie gonna do now?
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08-19-2008, 04:48 PM
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One of the Nine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rifleman
Does Cecil Hotel charge rooms by the hour, or is that just a rumor?
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Lol. Why?
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08-19-2008, 05:30 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Just wondering.
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08-19-2008, 05:35 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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Closing the Cecil would be a great idea. Just think of how much the city would save on OT for paramedics alone!
Either that, or the ambulance out front is a permanent fixture...
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08-19-2008, 05:44 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Closing the Cecil would be a great idea. Just think of how much the city would save on OT for paramedics alone!
Either that, or the ambulance out front is a permanent fixture...
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Personally, while I have no love of the Cecil, I think it is kind of a necessary evil.
It's close to the drop in center. It's a location that police and paramedics know, and makes it easy to keep tabs on people.
If the Cecil closed, those people would scatter.
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08-19-2008, 05:44 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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When I first came to Calgary, before the C-train tracks on 7th Ave., that block was the busiest in the City at night. There was only one club in Calgary so everyone went to the hotel bars. That block also had the Calgarian, the Legion and the York and maybe another one I can't remember. It was a little rough but nothing like the Cecil is today. It was one stop shopping for hookers and blow plus booze with a line up of cabs. A real boom time for Calgary in the 70s.
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08-19-2008, 05:56 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
Were there any triceratops' there at that time?
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Only if you did enough drugs. 
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08-19-2008, 06:37 PM
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Likes Cartoons
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
Were there any triceratops' there at that time?
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Albertasaurus' used to nest there.
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08-19-2008, 07:01 PM
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Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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The one time I went to the Cecil was to watch my friend's band play (and to provide security in case the clientele didn't like him and we had to fight our way out), and my buddy got propositioned by this hideous huge alky chick who kept telling him "Me and my old man, we got an arrangement... it's ok if you wanna come back to my place, he won't mind."
So from then on one of my favorite ways to rile him up has been to imitate her and imply that the only thing holding him back was the presence of witnesses. He still shudders, years and years later, if you bring it up...
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08-19-2008, 09:48 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by enthused
What will be left to joke about if the Cecil shuts down too?!
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Edmonton.
Seriously though, clean up one area, and the people who made it sketchy will just migrate to another area. Hard to do anything about it.
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