Were have all the fun places gone?

[maymay]

I was talking to a few young men at my job the other night and asking them were they hang out, go out, then I started to name the places we used to go to when I was younger, the found out that a part from Le Belmont and PEEL pub everything else is closed.

We used to got o OTOOLS, Fuzzy, Thunderdome, Limelight, Hercule Poireau, Sherlock, Café Campus, Follies, the lovers, and action disco club, tuxedo, Le select, le tops to name a few.

But now today those young people seem to have no were to go. Its really weird to think about all of this. I guess back in the early 90 to 2000 we had the best years.

 

[MCTJ]

I personally don't go out much, but from my observations of social trends I can tell you that the type of places that you name have simply fell out of fashion. Most of the typical 90's early 00's nightclubs have closed.

People hang out in trendy restaurants, supper clubs and bars (including 5-star hotel bars).

 

[maymay]

I personally don't go out much, but from my observations of social trends I can tell you that the type of places that you name have simply fell out of fashion. Most of the typical 90's early 00's nightclubs have closed.

People hang out in trendy restaurants, supper clubs and bars (including 5-star hotel bars).

I will be 46 soon but my days of clubbing ended at 28 I have not been out in a long time.

 

[TheJames101]

The young folk have places to hang out. And they do.

 

[ThePervert]

J’aimerais ça le savoir. La vie nocturne de Mtl n’est plus ce qu’elle a déjà été. Jusqu’au début de l’an 2000, il y avait encore des places où aller chaque soir de la semaine. C’est encore le cas, mais il y a la moitié moins de monde en début de semaine. Le durcissement de la loi sur l’alcool au volant (tolérance zéro pour un nouveau conducteur) jumelé à l’inflation des dernières années n’a certe pas aidé la nouvelle génération qui me semble plus porter à regarder/créer des vidéo TikTok que de se rassembler en gang au Peel Pub.

 

[maymay]

J’aimerais ça le savoir. La vie nocturne de Mtl n’est plus ce qu’elle a déjà été. Jusqu’au début de l’an 2000, il y avait encore des places où aller chaque soir de la semaine. C’est encore le cas, mais il y a la moitié moins de monde en début de semaine. Le durcissement de la loi sur l’alcool au volant (tolérance zéro pour un nouveau conducteur) jumelé à l’inflation des dernières années n’a certe pas aidé la nouvelle génération qui me semble plus porter à regarder/créer des vidéo TikTok que de se rassembler en gang au Peel Pub.

Non les endroits sont tous fermer, c'est fou le Peel Pub roule encore je pense que la café campus aussi. Mais dans le temps on avait des clubs partout et je site, St thrèse a coté d'un hibiscus petit club plein de super belle femmes, on avait st vincent de paul, st jerome, laval, et pas juste Montreal.

Mais y a plus rien. Maintenant et je demande aux jeunes ou je travail et il me disent non j'aime mieux rester chez moi et jouer des jeux videos, je ne comprend pas... je vais avoir 46 ans mais j'ai fais ma vie de jeunesse je suis sortie etc, mais les jeunes aujourd hui ne semble pas faire rien

 

[CLOUD 500]

I was talking to a few young men at my job the other night and asking them were they hang out, go out, then I started to name the places we used to go to when I was younger, the found out that a part from Le Belmont and PEEL pub everything else is closed.

We used to got o OTOOLS, Fuzzy, Thunderdome, Limelight, Hercule Poireau, Sherlock, Café Campus, Follies, the lovers, and action disco club, tuxedo, Le select, le tops to name a few.

But now today those young people seem to have no were to go. Its really weird to think about all of this. I guess back in the early 90 to 2000 we had the best years.

Government influence has a lot to do with it. For example, many bars are getting complaints of noise. But the rules are not made in favor of nightlife. It makes no sense to mix residential property with clubs.

There is a lot of government rules forcing comformity. Remember all the bright neon signs of the 70s? All gone now. Makes it less interesting for clubs and bars.

30 years ago rents were low, now with mass immigration this caused rents to go skyhigh and made it a lot more lucrative to investors wanting to build condos for the rich. High rents and high taxes does not make it too interesting to run a bar or club.

Since 2005, the smoking ban had a huge impact on customer volume at stripclubs, it also affected clubs and bars. Less ppl might want to go if they have to keep on going out to take a smoke.

Including high taxes, since 2014 Revenue Quebec installed machines to collect taxes on all drinks sold. Face it, clubs and bars are a mostly cash business. Paying all those taxes makes it less profitable.

Lastly, the crackdown on drunk driving. It was much more lax 30 years ago, now they are very strict for good reason. There is very little tolerance for driving while impared and there are just way more police cars. Clubs and bars make a good portion of their cash off drinks and ppl seem to need alcohol to have fun. But with the risk of driving while drunk makes it less likely young ppl will go out to party.

Social media played a role also. Young ppl are more busy making videos.

 

[maymay]

Government influence has a lot to do with it. For example, many bars are getting complaints of noise. But the rules are not made in favor of nightlife. It makes no sense to mix residential property with clubs.

There is a lot of government rules forcing comformity. Remember all the bright neon signs of the 70s? All gone now. Makes it less interesting for clubs and bars.

30 years ago rents were low, now with mass immigration this caused rents to go skyhigh and made it a lot more lucrative to investors wanting to build condos for the rich. High rents and high taxes does not make it too interesting to run a bar or club.

Since 2005, the smoking ban had a huge impact on customer volume at stripclubs, it also affected clubs and bars. Less ppl might want to go if they have to keep on going out to take a smoke.

Including high taxes, since 2014 Revenue Quebec installed machines to collect taxes on all drinks sold. Face it, clubs and bars are a mostly cash business. Paying all those taxes makes it less profitable.

Lastly, the crackdown on drunk driving. It was much more lax 30 years ago, now they are very strict for good reason. There is very little tolerance for driving while impared and there are just way more police cars. Clubs and bars make a good portion of their cash off drinks and ppl seem to need alcohol to have fun. But with the risk of driving while drunk makes it less likely young ppl will go out to party.

Social media played a role also. Young ppl are more busy making videos.

I never was a strip club fan, went to deese in laval and paré when i was younger but you are so right seems that lots of strip club closed like super sex etc. Not sure how they will solve this mass immigration, some countries started mass deportation but Canada are too pussies to do this i am sure.

 

[ThePervert]

Non les endroits sont tous fermer, c'est fou le Peel Pub roule encore je pense que la café campus aussi. Mais dans le temps on avait des clubs partout et je site, St thrèse a coté d'un hibiscus petit club plein de super belle femmes, on avait st vincent de paul, st jerome, laval, et pas juste Montreal.

Mais y a plus rien. Maintenant et je demande aux jeunes ou je travail et il me disent non j'aime mieux rester chez moi et jouer des jeux videos, je ne comprend pas... je vais avoir 46 ans mais j'ai fais ma vie de jeunesse je suis sortie etc, mais les jeunes aujourd hui ne semble pas faire rien

Vrai que la vie nocturne était bcp plus vivante dans l’temps à st-jerome. Les mercredis soirs à faire la tournée entre le vieux shack et le café d’en face, c’était LA soirée dans le nord avec les lundis au Bourbon street Club à st-adèle.

Oui, le café campus est encore ouvert. Pour te montrer à quel point on a plus la meme jeunesse qu’à l’époque, le campus organise des soirées pour les couches-tot. Ça débute à 18h00 pour se terminer à 22h00.

Je suis dans la meme catégorie d’âge et je te confirme que les jeux vidéos/média sociaux ont pris le dessus sur mes jeunes collègues.

Le montréal bohème n’est plus à part les vieux souvenirs qui restent.

 

[lexsansave]

The "bottle service" culture has pretty much destroyed the bar experience for the average person.

 

[Mandouke]

I was talking to a few young men at my job the other night and asking them were they hang out, go out, then I started to name the places we used to go to when I was younger, the found out that a part from Le Belmont and PEEL pub everything else is closed.

We used to got o OTOOLS, Fuzzy, Thunderdome, Limelight, Hercule Poireau, Sherlock, Café Campus, Follies, the lovers, and action disco club, tuxedo, Le select, le tops to name a few.

But now today those young people seem to have no were to go. Its really weird to think about all of this. I guess back in the early 90 to 2000 we had the best years.

I was at the Cafe Campus two weeks ago, it is on Prince Arthur just East of St. Laurent.

I recall having many a fine evening at Les Foufoounes Electiques as well as the St. Sulpice on St. Denis. The Backstreet and Mustache Club as well, many moons ago.

Young people have places to go to, we are not privy to those places as boomers.

 

[CLOUD 500]

Covid mandates also had a big impact. After two years of covid mandates, the iconic after hours club Circus closed down. It was there since 20 years, but two years of covid mandates made the afterhours club lost a lot of money so it closed down. Many other clubs shut down because of covid mandates.

The government banned the opening of new clubs of this type since the middle of the 2000s. These types of establishments were grandfathered like stripclubs. I remember in 2003, there were a bunch of afterhours clubs, Sona, Aria, Red Light, now all gone. I believe Stereo is the only one remaining. So yes more ways at how government is wiping out the night life.

 

[Lucky 64]

Covid mandates also had a big impact. After two years of covid mandates, the iconic after hours club Circus closed down. It was there since 20 years, but two years of covid mandates made the afterhours club lost a lot of money so it closed down. Many other clubs shut down because of covid mandates.

The government banned the opening of new clubs of this type since the middle of the 2000s. These types of establishments were grandfathered like stripclubs. I remember in 2003, there were a bunch of afterhours clubs, Sona, Aria, Red Light, now all gone. I believe Stereo is the only one remaining. So yes more ways at how government is wiping out the night life.

Yes those days are gone !! You could go out every day with a different people Action l Arnaque chez Swan limelight St Larent was booming Crescent was amazing and if not we would drive to Bourbon street up north it was fun and the women were beautiful ah good memories!!!

 

[themonk83]

Kids have places to go, you just don't know where. They will also not tell you where they hang because kids

 

[dagreatness]

Mostly the clubs are on st Laurent now, but not the same as before.

Rouge, Musique and others have not been the same as before the pandemic

They also now hangout a lot in the old port too

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

I will be 46 soon but my days of clubbing ended at 28 I have not been out in a long time.

I’m older than that and I can affirm, the ‘80s and the ‘90s were the golden years for hanging out and partying in MTL

Just to name a few places:

Downtown never been my COT, I much prefered hanging with my fellow french speaking buddies but, yeah Thunderdome, Limelight, Casa Pedro and Parachute were on my regular rotation.
Then café Campus, the original one in Côte des Neiges was a favorite.
On Ave du Parc:
5116, le Pit bar, club Soda, la Pleine Lune, Idéfix, Isaza, le Checkers, la Skala and a few obscure after hours.

Le Prince-Arthur, Chez Swann, Taxi, le Business, Vol de nuit, café Central/Quai des brumes, la brasserie La Gare, Taverne CPR,
Chez Queue, hotel Iroquois, Ciparis, le Nelson, La Cave du 15 Novembre, le Lambert-Closse

Jazz bars and such:
L’Air du Temps, Rocket Paradise, Biddles, Upstairs, Risng Sun and 1 on Crémazie I can’t remember the name.

Strip-Clubs:
In the early 80’s I was holding office at le Sex-Tupple, Saint-Laurent/Bernard.

-Castel Tina, Chez Mado, Wanda’s, Sex-Mania, chez Paré, café Caprice and certainly many more lol.

I don’t know if today’s youth is going out less, I don’t go clubbing at all anymore. But one thing I do know is that, as it always been, music is the common denominator for partying. Different music, different clientele, different drugs and different criminality. The latter being the most probable cause for people leaving the scene.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

L’Air du Temps, Rocket Paradise, Biddles, Upstairs, Risng Sun and 1 on Crémazie I can’t remember the name.

Rocket Paradise, or was it Rock Head Paradise?

 

[Lucky 64]

Rocket Paradise, or was it Rock Head Paradise?

Capitaine you are so right you’re my men I was in the same places same time

 

[ThePervert]

Le loft, les mardis alternatifs.

Situé angle st-laurent-ste-catherine. C’est un club de gym maintenant.

Le La tulipe, angle mont-royal, Papineau. Fermé à cause d’une erreur administrative de
La ville de Montréal. C’était le meilleur « pick-up » bar pour les 30 ans+

 

[CLOUD 500]

In my days I was going to Millenium, Sona, Montreal Dome, 737, Club Vatican, Joy Club, Exit, Copacabana, etc.. Probably others too that I forgot to mention. Those were the days.