Seven others were busted on a Jul 1 visit. Two nights later they came back to serve owner Craig Anderson for a liquor violation, charging 4 more patrons. On two plainclothes cops at The Bijou on a routine booze scan saw men having sex & charged 8 with indecency. Owner George Pratt covered his staff's legal costs. That July, charges were dropped against dancers & patrons on Dec 13 one of the bar's two managers was convicted of keeping a common bawdy house, the other acquitted. Later even the police commission would blush.Ībout 200 people met at Buddies in Bad Times that led to creation of The February 19th Defence Committee (as the 1978 Barracks raid generated defence first named for its date, December 9th).Įnergy flagged as the case dragged through years of court dates, not resolved until 1999.
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The Remington's bust was ordered by the former morality squad, based in suburban Don Mills local 52 Division cops, by now inured to more subtle community policing, seemed embarrassed to be there. Sailor, annex to Woody's next door, opened in '94 above, Priape, branch of a Montreal sex toy shop.ĥ18 Church, opened as Pints, made gay by its clientele.ħ2 Carlton, once Studio II, now Zipperz - & a piano too.īuddy's, '78 - '87 of late The Bijou, busted in Jun '99. The Melody Room & home of Two in the '60s since Together, Tanks, The Bulldog, now The Black Eagle - if to me always The 457.Ĥ59 Church, The Eagle upstairs 'til it moved next door in '97 now a (Red) spot for comedy.