Old guys remember old bars (From "Defence of Canada Medal (1946-1989)")

[Northalbertan]

Don't forget places like:

The Taverne (after it was Sonja's)
The Terrasse
The Riegeler Stube
The Hansa Stube

of course there were also:

Trocadaroes (Spelling)
Rosies
King's Club
Adler House

Oh, so many that Aluminium and time have allowed to fade in the old memories banks.....

There were so many in Lahr.  I can remember (vaguely) starting at the Kaserne and working back towards the flugplatz, stopping at every gasthaus or pub along Schwartzwald Strasse and having a small beer.  We made it maybe half way back before having to pull the pin we were so gunned.

 

[The Anti-Royal]

The Oxbox and Fryfogel's, in London . . . the (hazy) memories.

 

[Danjanou]

GW, it's messtins I actually liked the Hilltop over the Cosmo.

Of course there were also two Tiffianies, the infamous political career stopping one in Lahr and the smaller basement disco in Hugey witht he shag carpet covered poles. :

For those who endured Aldershot there was also the Big Apple in Kentville, usually closed for repairs and/or off limits for about half the summer. ;D

 

[The Bread Guy]

My only humble contribution, for the Dundurn crowd of a certain era - Confetti's

 

[Pusser]

Pusser you missed the Palace (or does it bring back memories 8))

Never been there sober.  However, the Palace still exists in much the same form as it was twenty years ago.  I was concentrating on those that are not longer there.  Otherwise, I would have mentioned:

EAST

The Split Crow
Peddler's Pub
The Liquor Dome

WEST

Bartholemew's
Spinnakers

 

[Teeps74]

Thinking of Kingston...

The Wellington

Ahh, Jerry O'Kane on Fri nights! I have fond memories of my youth singing (very badly) with the rest of the out of tune there.

Tir Nan Og
KBC (of course)
The Toucan
The Grizz
the place with the dolt bouncers across the street from The Grizz (that's how often I went there)

I do not believe that Stages has changed it's name at all in it's some 20 year history. I remember a time where if you looked like a soldier, they would NOT let you in (I also remember a time when it was the Highland Theatre...).

Golden oldies... Dollar Bill's in Kingston. Everything was a buck. Been thrown out of the Cocamo a couple of times...

 

[Danjanou]

Never been there sober. 

Has anyone? or the Dome come to think of it?  8)

 

[Tank Troll]

Lahr
The Disco #1
The Horse Bar

For those that ventured further out  The "Crash" in Offenburg
                                                          The Atlantis/Rock Hell in Herblezhiem
                                                          The Biker Bar in Kippenhiem
                                                          Pool Pub in Freizenhim

Did any one Mention the Battlefields .... er Copperfield in Pembrook

Wuzzies in Wainwright and the Honey Pot

 

[Haggis]

The Lakeside in Kingston, next to the Kingston Penitentiary.  Saw the "Tragically Hip" there for a buck, back when Gord Downie still thought he was Jim Morrison.

 

[Journeyman]

The Lakeside in Kingston, next to the Kingston Penitentiary.

The Portsmouth Tavern?

 

[medicineman]

Ahh...the Portsmouth Tavern, another one I forgot about, strange considering I lived like a block away.  And before you say it JM, no I wasn't in the KP, KPW, or KPH...though after a night with my St John Ambualnce Brigade, any or all of those were potential options.

MM

 

[Haggis]

The Portsmouth Tavern?

Maybe......it was dark.......alcohol was involved.

 

[eurowing]

Lahr in the 70's
- Chimo's (eventually became the Kings Club I think)
- Tenne Bar (the night it was banned by the Base Commander is epic in my memory)
- Peter Pans
- Trocodaros (sp?)
- Maxine's
- Go Go Bar?  across from the Bank of Montreal and mini Canex?

 

[PJGary]

I do not believe that Stages has changed it's name at all in it's some 20 year history. I remember a time where if you looked like a soldier, they would NOT let you in (I also remember a time when it was the Highland Theatre...).

It's still Stages, or at least it was last time I was in K-Town. Is The Palace the certain establishment that I think it is? I too was never sober enough to remember the name.

 

[cupper]

For those who endured Aldershot there was also the Big Apple in Kentville, usually closed for repairs and/or off limits for about half the summer. ;D

That must have been after my time, cause it was the happening spot for the few summers my travel agent booked me there.

Don't forget JR's, The Anvil, The Old O, The Axe (with thousands of drunken co-eds).

 

[Old Sweat]

From decades in the past, one Edward may recall, although it wasn't quite a bar, the (all female and single) Teachers' Mess in the Windsor Girls School, a BAOR establishment just on the NE corner of the 4 CIBG area. It was known by the single officers as the Windsor Ghoul Pool. Hmmm, the Nurses' Mess in British Military Hospital Iserlohn, an establishment co-manned by Brits and Canadians, was also a popular destination.

 

[Danjanou]

That must have been after my time, cause it was the happening spot for the few summers my travel agent booked me there.

Don't forget JR's, The Anvil, The Old O, The Axe (with thousands of drunken co-eds).

1986 First summer I was condemned to staff there for 3 months ( we must have the same lousy travel agent) driving in from the airport I noticed  the front plate glass window was boarded up. Panel van driver filled us all in on the exploits of the previous weekends debauchery.

The Old O where a cab out there cost under $20.00 and the same run back to camp 2 or 3 times that. There was also the Kentville Legion on a Saturday night if one wanted join the 300 club.

For our visiting Brit friends or anyone whose travel agent booked them into Suffield, there was always the "Sin bin."

 

[Tank Troll]

Ah yes the lovely Asiniboine hotel in Med Hat, featuring all the watered down beer and Brits you could stand.

 

[cupper]

1986 First summer I was condemned to staff there for 3 months ( we must have the same lousy travel agent) driving in from the airport I noticed  the front plate glass window was boarded up. Panel van driver filled us all in on the exploits of the previous weekends debauchery.

'86 was one summer I escaped, ended up teaching a course in Moncton, the spent the rest of the time in the field in Gagetown drinking Labatts Blue imprted from Canada. Apparently Gagetown had separated from Confederation that year. (actually there was a liquor store strike going on in NB that year)

There were 4 bars in Downtown Moncton that were popular that summer, all essentially on the same block, I can recall only Ziggy's. One of the students on the course was a little loaded, got separated from the group and ended up jumping into a cab to go less than a block. Cabbie ripped him off for $10.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

From CFB Chatham:

The Whooper
The Opera House (in Newcastle)