VicHockeyFan posted topic Papering over retail/restaurant windows prior to opening

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Ask George: "Why do restaurants put paper in their windows during construction and prior to opening?"
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Ask George : Why do restaurants put paper in their windows during construction and prior to opening? Byron K, St. Louis
That depends on whom you ask.
Ask a general contractor and he might tell you it's to keep wandering eyes from wandering inside, as power tools are worth serious money on the resale market. One contractor confessed that it works the other way as well: a papered window keeps a worker's eyes from being distracted outside, by all the pretty passers-by.
Ask a municipality and you'll learn that "papering the windows is not a requirement but rather a strong suggestion," according to Tom Niemeier, President of SPACE Architecture + Design (http://www.space-stl.com/), a company responsible for many local restaurant renovations. "It serves two purposes," he said. "It's both a theft deterrent and it shields all that's unsightly."
Ask a restaurant owner or tenant and you get more answers. Some want to maintain the element of suspense until the space is spiffed and spit-shined...at which point the paper gets ripped down en masse, akin to unwrapping a giant gift. Others want the privacy that a papered-up window affords. Vendors and salesmen who "just happened to be in the area" (to say nothing of nosy Dining Editors sniffing out the next scoop) often barge in without appointment and disrupt whatever the owner/manager had otherwise planned for that day.
Chris Sommers, co-owner of the six Pi Pizzeria (http://www.restaurantpi.com/) stores, got so bothered by interruptions on previous projects that when he was building out the Pi 2 Go space in Chesterfield, he devised an elaborate smokescreen just to throw off intruders. He created a fictitious entity—Armadillo Joe's Tex-Mex & Taxidermy—complete with color logo (at left), and placed it in the papered-up window, which led the curious to a website complete with Western-themed music. Ian Froeb (http://www.riverfronttimes.com/authors/ian-froeb/), the RFT's restaurant critic, noted that "half the new restaurants in town don't bother throwing up a site even half as rudimentary as Armadillo Joe's!" The ruse was successful and Sommers revealed the spoof just days before Pi 2 Go's opening.

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VicHockeyFan posted topic Laketown Festival - Cowichan Lake

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https://www.theq.fm/now/100-3-the-q-presents-the-first-annual-laketown-rock-festival/ (https://www.theq.fm/now/100-3-the-q-presents-the-first-annual-laketown-rock-festival/)
The Victoria Day long weekend (May 19th through 21st) at Laketown Ranch in Lake Cowichan, B.C. It will be a weekend event featuring camping, music and other festival activities! The first wave of artist announcements include: SAM ROBERTS BAND – LOVERBOY – TROOPER – HONEYMOON SUITE – MATT MAYS – PRISM – HEADPINS with more artist announcements will be coming soon.
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AllseeingEye posted topic This symbolizes all that is bass ackwards about the CoV IMO....

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AllseeingEye has just posted a new topic entitled "This symbolizes all that is bass ackwards about the CoV IMO...." in forum "City of Victoria".

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Those two little words in the following quote from the article encapsulate perfectly the unrealistic Luddite attitude (still IMO) far too prevalent in this region: "....single-family residences and the owners expect the neighbourhood to stay as is...."

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/burdett-project-goes-to-hearing-despite-concerns-1.10099319

Really? So is it realistic for someone in their 20's today to expect by the time they hit their late 70's that their current and present lifestyle, their circle of family and friends - their health - will stay "as is?"

What about the First Nations who 160+ years ago were bothering precisely no one when a bunch of white dudes pulled up in some boats with "Hey man! Can you move over so we can bring in our stuff?!!" <-> (Thanks to George Carlin for that nugget which fits nicely into the scope of my comments here) - how did that work out for the F-N of the south island region? Did their world stay "as is" once whitey moved in, took over and ran the show?

Has the tiny settlement of what became Fort Victoria remained "as is" in the century and a half + since that time?

Even in my own lifetime did Greater Victoria in 2017 remain "as is" from my recollection of the area in 1967? What about my old Cedar Hill neighborhood where I grew up as a young kid from 1965-72: did it stay "as is" in the 45 years since we moved away to a different neighborhood?

In order - No. No. No. No. And...No!! Nothing is forever - nothing. So for the life of me I really cannot figure out why we have these ridiculous unrealistic but seemingly entrenched attitudes in certain segments of the CoV/CRD. In that vein it mystifies too me to read Young and Coleman's comments in regards. I suppose they are a reflection of "political expediency" - comments they presume they must make in order to be re-elected?

I don't know but this I do know - and I'm sorry to be the bearer of this news to folks freaking out that "change" is coming to their tiny little corner of the earth - but your life, your health, your family, your city and yes your neighborhood will ALL change in time. Bank on it. Accept it. Move on and stop worrying. Smoke a fattie if that's what it takes to calm you down. Ultimately you'll live longer. Because rest very assured your life ain't going to remain "as is" indefinitely....
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VicHockeyFan posted topic Salt and Pepper Fox | Victoria | 539 Johnson St.

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VicHockeyFan has just posted a new topic entitled "Salt and Pepper Fox | Victoria | 539 Johnson St." in forum "Restaurant & Eatery Reviews".

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Coming soon, 44 sq. ft.
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Mike K. posted topic Restaurant Matisse | Victoria | 512 Yates Street | Closed

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Bingo posted topic Hermann's Jazz Club

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Hermann's Jazz Club was established in 1985, and has become a cornerstone for live musical performance in Greater Victoria (and Vancouver Island).
In 2015 the owner Hermann Nieweler passed away, and the operation and facility have been managed by the estate (family) and a committee of volunteers (Kelby MacNayr, William Stewart, Nichola Walkden), with support from the community. In operating the Club Hermann's generosity to the music community has been realized, as the operation as a stand-alone business is unsustainable, having previously been subsidized by rental income received from other tenants within the building (753/751 View Street) that Hermann Nieweler owned.
The primary mandate of Jazz On View at this time is to secure the all-ages performance venue (753 View Street, Victoria, BC) and to continue its tradition of all ages live music performance, in a way that is sustainable, advances the public's appreciation of the arts, and contributes to the commerce of the arts.
We believe that the public's support of this organization is strong enough to attain this goal charitably.
https://jazzonview.com/ (https://jazzonview.com/)
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Rob Randall posted topic Beer Bottle Dash! The best exterior finish!

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Let's celebrate this uniquely west-coast material, also known as bottle dash or sparkle stucco.

My great grandparents added it to their house in the '50s. What other exterior treatment is maintenance-free for half a century or more?



http://scoutmagazine.ca/2017/02/07/you-should-know-about-the-bottle-dash-houses-that-still-glitter-in-the-vancouver-sun/



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Local historian John Atkin further explained that the application of exterior stucco was also seen as a way to "quickly modernize the house and hide the signs of renovations – especially as steel and aluminum windows were being promoted by the same grant program to replace 'old-fashioned' wood windows". Retrofitting new windows of a different proportion often left homeowners with ugly patches in the siding. Stucco could hide such renovation scars. A house "modernized" with a bottle-dash (or other dash) stucco exterior requires little, if any, maintenance. Stucco exteriors from this period (1930s to 1960s) are very durable, as some current homeowners can attest to as they frustratingly try to remove it during renovations.
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My house was built in 1963 but and some point, likely the 1970s, a rock dash finish was added, which was larger white, black and green rocks larger (and safer) than crushed glass.
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VicHockeyFan posted topic Rustik Bistro | Victoria | 3950 Carey Rd.

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http://rustikbistro.ca/

I guess it's attached to 6-Mile Bakery. Apparently it inherited some Bengal Lounge furniture.


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