I miss going for country drives on a Sunday where you see could see all the quaint o,ld towns and there wouldn't be a soul on the road.
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(These boxes are all quarts, of course) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5c3d3ca8_b.jpgIMG_3511 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...849b2ec0_b.jpgIMG_3512 |
oh my god they still have O'Keefe and Laurentide? Wow! I thought these were no longer brewed.
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pickled pork tongues...the legend is true ('twas also when I kept bar back in the late 80s...yes, I was a bartender for 3 years).
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Lio has somehow made his way past the gates of heaven tonight :drooling:
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And yep, those beers still exist. (That pic is from today.) I've seen some people drink them, too. |
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Back then in the 80's the brews in your picture had a distinctive taste and the stubby was everywhere. I think that they all technically still available in Ontario, but I'd be hard pressed to see a number of them available other than on a dusty shelf at the Beer Store. |
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In Ottawa, I think of only about 3 or 4 bars at most have quart bottles. 50 may have a bit of a hipster following but honestly it is playing on an old nostalgia as it's taste has been watered down I find and it isn't that memorable. I gather your bar doesn't serve meals on shovels or condiments in test tubes and there isn't an avocado to be found in the kitchen :worship::worship: |
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The building and bar have been in the same hands since the 1960s, and the building's been configured like that since the 1920s. It's a bit of a time capsule and since I like old things, I would like it to stay that way. I recently met a guy (he hangs out at that bar) who sold me a downtown Sherbrooke 9-plex in 2007 when he retired - I wouldn't have recognized him ~13 years later, he recognized me. He's 86 years old now and I'm not even sure he's the oldest customer :P On the other hand there are some youngsters who hang out there too, I'm impressed. There are way less bars around than even back in my day so on a per capita basis the remaining ones have an easier time, even when they don't change with the times, apparently. Quote:
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It's like when the occasional real estate listing goes viral because an old lady has lived in the same house since it was built in 1955 and everything looks exactly the same as it did in the 50s. |
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It is interesting to see certain things come full-circle - LPs and Labatt 50 come to mind - in certain segments of the population. |
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Compare: 2004 Scion xB (brand new design at the time) vs 2004 Chevrolet Astro. :haha: |
Our first house was the typical 1960's split level on a big lot. Like many it had the one thing that you haven't seen in 50 years...............the front little inlet box for the milkman.
Also remember the days when you appliances needed fixing and you actually fixed it as opposed to throwing it away and getting a new one? Of course the first thing that comes to mind is the good old TV repairman. |
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