Denny Andrew's
Back Alley
Hollywood North
Fox and Firkin
Night Magic
Curly's
Cecil Hotel
St. Louis
Coconut Joes
Electric Avenue
Three Cheers
Banditos
Live Wire
Highlander
Misty's
Dooey Steven's
Crowchild Inn
Peakin' at the Beacon
Franky and Johnny's
Warehouse
Malarky's
The Beach Bar @ The Tiki Tiki Room (Holiday Inn)
The National
Westward Club
The Bank
My personal favorite was the Bermuda Triangle. Used to have wet tshirt and wet boxer competitions. I can proudly say I have won both of them, several times. That spoke of the quality of women for the wet tshirt.
My personal favorite was the Bermuda Triangle. Used to have wet tshirt and wet boxer competitions. I can proudly say I have won both of them, several times. That spoke of the quality of women for the wet tshirt.
I miss the wet T-shirt competitions. One of my friends entered once. She won. Her and her double Ds. Actually, I think we all won that night.
Add Raffles, the Republik to the list. Dooey Stevens's on a Thursday night.
Anyone remember DA's used to have wet T shirt contests when they had the lifeguard towers?
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Many memories at the Den over the 6 years of 1994-2000. Most every Friday nights, certainly in 1995-1998. Probably the time spent most in any pub or bar in this city in my almost 37 years. Considering most Fridays it was travelling up there, not staying up there post class, a pretty long jaunt from down south, but worth it.
Beer soaked carpet and pool tables. Everytime I smell a bar or pub with the perma-smell of beer or booze, takes me back of walking into the Den on a Thursday afternoon for a drink, or Friday if the place is busy. Usually would see one or more friends there at any time.
The gondola they had in there on the dance floor at one point in time. Picnic tables by the dance floor and dart boards.
Pandamonieum broke out when "Home for a Rest" came on.
The Cantina in its various states of operation over that time.
$5 pitchers, $2 highballs Fridays. Must have treated the staff well...more or less the same crew that whole time. Trinny the female bartender, along with a guy who always wore a kilt. Also a tall guy with blond hair.
Lineups around to Speakers Corner...no cover though. Royal Bank Machine adjecent to the washrooms gave out $5 bills.
One of the few places that had Labatt 50 in this city in those days.
DJ Wah.
The glory that was BSD 1996, was the last year they had exclusively in the Den. After that, they had outdoor beer gardens, or split venues, and nowhere near the same. Highly memorable and two close buddies had their first dates there...and each of them married those girls, and still married to them.
One of the top memories was wandered in there after last ever exam middle of the day in December 1998, slammed the books on the table, and without hesitation, a buddy that had been with me in school since Grade 1 with got up and bought three Jagermiesters for me to put clourse to my academic career. (cool story, I know)
Also Max's Cafe...odd layout, open air and only way to get in and to leave was stairs, lots of fundraising cabaret's there in that same time period. Saw Blue Rodeo there once too.
As for the Den, for all the drunkenness, saw one fight, total, and found out one of the fightees was visiting from Sask. It wasn't a place that outsiders (outside of the U of C, or with those as friends of the U of C) bothered to go to, that was Yucatan or Billy McIntyres up there if you wanted to get into fights. Also helped that the patrons were all between 18-23, which I fell into, as well as having 10-15 friends there most Fridays. But only usually one door man, no "security" or anything like that because it wasn't needed. No marketing or manufacturing of some sort of ambiance to attract anyone, you accepted it for what it was or didn't bother with it.
Good times.
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DJ Wah was DJing at Local 510 last Friday. Brought back some memories.
I recall he moved to the Embassy after...not the same though, plus a totally different vibe. Got in the back door by the DJ booth at the Den a few times with some friends who knew him pretty well.
There used to be (up until a few years ago) an original Den website out there, still barely breathing, but since gone, which had some pics from the last couple years there 98-99. Been 13 years since the original Den closed down.
From CP, a thread with many of the same bar names talked about 6 years ago...and a much more active Reg Dunlop
Thats when I was there, seem to remember being in Max's more. A buddy ended up married a den waitress.
That "home for a rest song" was soooo overplayed, but everytime the girls would go crazy. That was so ghey.
Inb engineering we had homerooms, so you could get piled stumble over, pass out on the couch and wake up for school the next day. Guys would end up hucking apples at the blackboard to greet the prof the next day.
I have as many found blank spots in my memory thanks to Max as I do The Den.
Also, does anyone remember the name of the bar on the east side of Marlborough Mall, that had wet t-shirt contests on like Tuesday or Monday.
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I have as many found blank spots in my memory thanks to Max as I do The Den.
Also, does anyone remember the name of the bar on the east side of Marlborough Mall, that had wet t-shirt contests on like Tuesday or Monday.
Wasn't it south of the mall, next to where the Petro Canada is? Wasn't it called Renegades or something? I know it used to attract a lot of bad crime and such.
Wasn't it south of the mall, next to where the Petro Canada is? Wasn't it called Renegades or something? I know it used to attract a lot of bad crime and such.
You might be correct, it was during an extremely heavy drinking time of my life. My recollection is it was up on the North East side, but again......like much of the early/mid 90's it is fuzzy.
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Pushing nearly 20 years for some of those bars. Wow.
I did the Back Alley fairly regularly from 95 to 98. Always had fun from what I can remember. I had a buddy in high school that was major bible thumper and this was the first bar I dragged him to. It was a pretty epic night. Helps that he was a pretty awesome drummer and got up on stage with the drummer of the band that was playing, can't remember who though. Can't even count how many times I saw 54-40 there.
Three Cheers, Joes, Fox, Taz so many that were so much fun. Can remember ordering 5 or 6 vodka slims at Three Cheers and drinking half of them befor eyou even paid. Good times.
I got thrown out of the Back Alley once and was way too drunk to remember why. All I remember of that incident is eating one of those ####ty hot dogs outside after being thrown out and arguing with the bouncer about it.
What does one even have to do to get thrown out of the Back Alley, did I kill a guy?
I was only there once and got tossed out for being too drunk, from what I understand that means I should have died of alcohol poisoning
