Another Dartmouth restaurant in a particular Main Street location goes up in smoke. On the radio they said fire investigators were looking for a cause. Really? The investigators in question must be new in town.
My bitch? The folks who keep opening restaurants there and ‘closing’ them a few years later are driving up my insurance rates!
Knock it off, please!!
—Urban Farmer Bob
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2009.
I’m just glad none of the ’employees’ didn’t get hurt.
bloody double negatives…
glad no bouncing ladies were hurt.
I still haven’t had a chance to stop in yet…. looks like I’ll be waiting a while.
Suppose I’ll have to just go down the street for my entertainment…
Funny how this particular location is infested with fires.
You can smell the smoke along with an insurance scam, maybe? Just a speculation.
Dammit, these marshmallows aren’t going to toast themselves.
mmmm burnt silicone…
News today says arson. If I were the insurance person who approved that policy on the 5 times unlucky building, I’d be kicking myself right about now.
BRoc, you owe me a monitor, lol.
Hasn’t that place been owned by the same people for like 20 years?
This is the most tragic story of 2009. 🙁
Really, NW? Why, cause now there’s nowhere to by half-assed wings with half-covered titties?
Come over to my place for kick-ass wings and totally UNCOVERED titties… they’re 75 year-old grandma titties, but they’re uncovered…
MMMMMMMMMMMMM… Nana makes the bestest wings in the nude.
“This is the fourth time — the Icehouse, the Hub and M.T. Bellies and now Hooters,” he said. “There’s an omen here, somewhere.”
(http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1154873…)
Damn Poltergeists…their everywhere!
HKM on HRM…you are right…and when I heard this on the radio yesterday morning I kinda wondered wtf? the fourth place….same cause….I’m leaning towards some sort of insurance fraud…again.
zZz…try Moxies in Dart. Crossing…I heard it’s even better! 😉
Got food poisoning there from a club sandwich – the first week they opened. But everyone says the food’s good, and I know I have a bunch of single dude friends I “wing-chick” for that love the scenery there…
moxies it is!
Phew – thank GOD Ralph’s place is OK! That would be a real tragedy.
This might be a point for another bitch, but why the fuck isn’t there even one strip club in downtown Halifax? Ridiculous! Ever since The Lighthouse on Barrington Street closed down we’ve been stuck going to Dartmouth for our erotic dancing needs.
And yes, if I could get the financing, I would love to open up a strip club myself. I just need to start growing my greasy moustache.
Gidget, unless your grandma’s exceptionally perky at 75….those aren’t titties …they’re beaver tails..!
Qpmz, just get a sharpie & pencil one on .
Am I the only one wondering how much fire insurance must cost, to cover a place that’s been burnt 4 times ? Can you even get insurance on a place that comes with its own built in, time delayed arsonist ?
I may make a presentation to HRM Council that the property in question be EXPROPRIATED (uh . . . they do it when they want to make roads into downtown Halifax wider – why I don’t know) and turned into something with some socially redeeming value like a park or a community vegetable garden or a place for me to keep my chickens!!!
Great idea! Community garden with your chickens on the side. Then, when it burns again we can have roast chicken with potatoes and veggies. Think we can put in a cherry tree for flambe?
(That or a shelter for the homeless but that wouldn’t be nice.)
= p
HKM on HRM:
My chickens going up in flames? Oh the humanity!!!
But at least it would mean some good, wholesome food being served at that location – a welcome change.
Live music on the side, too. Yeeehawww.
this is not politically correct; but 5 will get you ten the owner is of greek heritage.
We can invited Gidget’s Nana (I hear her wings and beavertails are the best)!
Music on the side (sorry Farmer Bob, no one would go for country):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6TTU1knUM
Ralphs is good but its a bit of a trip from Halifax. I also have entertained the thought of opening a club in Halifax. I wonder what the hassle about it is.
The Lighthouse wasn’t very good, imo.
@ Cranky – lots of spots to choose from on downtown Barrington. I doubt our current mayor would allow it to happen though – I think I read a blurb not long ago about him giving a certain sex shop a hard time. I think the downtown core is much better spot than around the corner from Dartmouth residences. A bit of downtown sleaze might be just the thing to liven up Barrington (ala St Catherine).
It would be nice to see a strip joint, on Barrington Street, That block of Barrington just south of St Paul’s Church. Has some good spots. A bonus is the City & provincial elected officials wouldn’t have to go far to check it out 😉
Yeah, it’d be cool if strip clubs could revitalize barrington st the way they helped st catherines (ha ha). Seriously, I was thinking somewhere out in fairview but now that you mention it, barrington looks rundown enough to be a prime spot to stick a strip club, and its in walking distance of the bar/university crowd. Nah. It’d never fly.
Downtown Barrington Street would be a great location for a strip club! We should definitely take either the old Dooly’s or Sam the Record Man location. I think it’d be quite popular: downtown location close to other popular bars with minimal competition and, hopefully, a decent rent. With my Planning degree and someone else’s money and business sense, I’m sure we could make it work and get around this city’s somewhat backwards and restrictive attitude towards sex.
Whaddya say, boys, you in?
How much would we need to raise, qpmzwonxeibcruv?
I am so down for this. Strip clubs aren’t even the taboo they used to be, when I’m at ralphs I see as many straight girls as guy customers. It can’t lose!
and think of the lunch crowds…. I’d invest now while the gettin is good.
I have no doubt that giving such a spot access to the drunken foot traffic alone would make it a huge success. The ironic think is a lot of people no doubt would say this would be bad for the character of downtown, but when you look at our historic military/university town roots it makes perfect sense. I doubt that back in the day very many residents of Citadel Hill would have looked at such a place with contempt. I’m sure City Hall would prefer another couple of Starbucks and the same sterile businesses you’d find in Mic Mac Mall or the BLIP to open up down there.