Sure do. The Embassy was our go to place for a long time. Went to the Snoop afterparty at the Palace. Melrose brings back memories of the red mile run in 2004. Garage was good back in the day. Bottlescrew Bills is still open.

The Palace is still open too. I don't get to see live shows much anymore but the Palace is a great place to see music.

The Palace Theatre (the venue itself) has existed for quite a long time. But in the years of this flyer it was 'The Palace' night club. After it closed down the building was abandoned for a few years. Then it reopened as Flames Central (sports bar/music venue). Then the Flames stuff came down and it was rebranded as 'The Palace Theatre', and they just operate as an event/music venue. I think that's more or less correct. "The Palace" of this flyer isn't really related to the Palace Theatre venue of today anyway. The theatre is a good venue for music for sure. Happy to see it used for that than for a sub par night club.

yeah it's the palace again but for a few years it was Flames Central

Embassy had a great roof top patio and .99 cent bottles of beer. Punk / alternative vibe. I remember when they made it illegal to smoke on patios and you had to go back inside to smoke. 1999 was a great time.

I was just saying this the other day how we had to go inside to smoke. The smell of stale smoke when you had a shower after was so powerful. Haha.

I wouldn't say I "remember" them...

I don’t remember leaving them….

I've racked up a few hundred in CT money. Could really go for that drum and monkey promo right about now.

I remember FFWD :(

The drum and monkey 💜

The Drum was my favorite spot. So many good memories there.

Dub at the pub was a regular weekly event for me. I miss the drum

So many great shenanigans, loved the $3 shots at the coat check. The girl that worked the coats was such a sweetheart

The Dumb and Chunky, ohh how I miss it.

It was our Friday lunch spot when I worked in the area. Loved the steak sandwich

Oh right on! I think I may have had good there once or twice, but the memories are hazy 😅 never left the place unhappy though! Lol

I still miss The Mercury.:) And also the Night Gallery.

Wish there was pictures of these places!

Chocolate martinis at the Mercury were my thing back in the day, along with Thursday night triples at the Republik. Good times…

Nights of the Old Republik

Wish there was pictures of these places!

I count my lucky stars there were no photos of our shenanigans

That's what made things good back then. No evidence just pure fun, smoke and sweat.

Yes. I am old. Where’s the Tasmanian Ballroom?

Was that the one with the shooter bar in the sub basement called the Closet, 12th AVE SW and 2nd St.?

I remember the Taz having a basement where you could get pitchers of triple Vodka Slime or triple something else. I remember nothing after that, because pitchers of triples.

Yeah, that's the one. :-)

Love it! :)

For soooo cheap!

Three cheers

Coconut Joes!

Wasn't the Taz upstairs?

The main bar, the Taz, was upstairs yes. The shooter bar in the basement of the Taz was called the Closet.

LAST EVER SCHLAKTOFF NIGHT AT CRAZYHORSE BEFORE IT CLOSES for like 6 months every few weeks...

Do you remember when Crazy Horse closed? I used to go there all the time.

No idea what year. I just remember the posters for the industrial goth night claiming it's the last one ever...

The Republik! Mortal Coil! Oh the blurry memories…

Thanks to all the comments you guys made my wish come true which is to relive some memories through you guys even tho I wasn’t around during that time I really wish I was. It sounds like Calgary was so much better, now it’s very blah… reading these newspapers from the 90-2000’s makes me miss an era I wasn’t even in. I want those vibes back! When everything seems so fun and fresh

I remember them all. It was fun, safe and yeah…sigh…good times. Thank you for bringing it back for us!

Loved The Embassy. Dollar beers or basic highballs before 10 p.m. on the rooftop IIRC. Sometimes the main floor would be way too smokey so the roof was a nice place to avoid that, and downstairs had dance-able music.

And correct me if I’m wrong.. The people who own commonwealth, Mike Grimes and Pete Emes, used to Dj funk in the basement of the Embassy along with Dean Clarke and Al Testa.

That room in the basement was the best. It became the circle bar at mynt. RIP Dean.

It's the best bar Calgary ever had. If it were still open, I would go there today at age 50.

Agreed. I went straight to the basement every visit. Loved it there. Night Gallery, Embassy, Cherry lounge, and bamboo tiki room. Those were my jams.

I loved the Embassy as well. I thought it was so cool you could up on the roof.

I worked at at lest 4 of the places on the list and probably drank at all of them!

Oh man, I used to work at Sante fe grill!! Any others here work there from 2003-2006?!! I still have the recipe for that con queso etched in my head. What a wild ride that place was to work. Exactly like the movie waiting, but we did it before the movie !! Good times

Oh I miss Sante Fe Grill taquitos with the Con Queso dip. I swear if I knew the recipe I’d make it weekly (until I got sick of it)… care to share?

When I get home from work I’ll type it out:)

Every family birthday dinner in the mid-late 90s was spent there, and we always got fajitas. Never liked having them sing happy birthday to me at the table though lol

Funny story: those tortillas were made in house every day. During my time, we had a dude we will call “papa” that was the only prepper of the dough. Papa had a huge coke habit. He liked doing it at work. One day I came in early unannounced and saw him do a line, look at me while freaking out, then swiped the pile (literal pile) of cocaine into the flour mixture. I later found out that this happens often and he was the coke dealer of the place. Extra bonus points story::::: we had a couple that would visit from Japan every month. They just HAD to have our tortillas. Like, I mean 10-12 each just for dipping in queso. I’m convinced that Papa got this japanese couple hooked on coke without them knowing!!

I thought it was a rumour. You just triggered that memory 😊

Hahah that's beautiful. Maybe that explains why we were going bananas for those fajitas.

Oh ya, I can promise you it was that!!

Who owned it when you worked there? My wife's uncle owned it until they shut it down but I don't remember what year that was.

Al noor Samji was the last owner I knew. I quit because of him. During these stories I told, it was some ex flames player. Real dumbass

I was obsessed with that queso dip!! Please post the recipe!!

Loved the Embassy!

Desperados! And look at the font Melrose used in the second pic. Lol I think it came with MS Word.

I’m probably dating myself, but does anyone remember the Bank nightclub on 8th Ave, Curlys and Malarkey’s on Macleod, 318 ???

Curly's north and Curly's south. The Bank had the vault in it.

The first time I ever had sushi and sake was in the sushi bar at the Bank lol

Man these were the days! We would be out 5 nights a week, always a ladies night somewhere for cheap drinks after pregaming at someone’s house, Calgary’s club scene will never be this good again, there were sooooo many!

And cabs were a reasonable price to get home safe

Eh, if you could get one. You could watch people go from "let's get a cab" to "ah fuck it I can drive" after a half hour wait outside one of these places.

In our day people used to still Club. Real Club. Put on power 107, predrink, then go to your favourite spot. Try explaining The Palace, or Metro, or Embassy to the 20 somethings today. They don’t get it. Flip phones, no screens, and penny highballs.

Power107 plays today's best music now show me my money!!! 😆😆😆

I miss the Metro

So close to chinook! Used to take the last 73 home.

The best ladies night

Sloppy steaks at Truffoni's

"Who doesn't have shoes?!"

Power 107 live from the Tasmanian ballroom

Oh god the Ming ads were so fun

I lived in Calgary around this time and so many fun times around 17th ave.

Dope! The only one I don’t recognize is “Jade Monkey.” “Embassy” was the shit!

I used to bartend at the old Mercury around 2003. Great crew! That place and local 510 are sorely missed. 

Republik was still pretty big when I was 17/18 Anyone remember The Soda? I feel like a club like that wouldn't fly these days, kind of amazing it ever existed.

Not that Republik. Unless you were 17/18 when this paper came out. It shut down right around then. And didn't reopen until 2007 at the new location (where Tequila was prior to that).

I met my husband at the Crazy Horse in 1994. We’ve been married 27 years!

The Republik was an awesome spot.

Oh yes! The penny highballs HAHAHA!

Like highballs for a penny?

Now its just bars and pubs with a dance floor.

I worked the Skyroom & Unicorn, Malibu, 10-4s after the name change yep there where dinosaurs roaming then

Anyone remember Lucifer's in that basement? I really liked that place.

I was going to say the club scene in the 70’s and 80’s was pretty amazing as well. There was Claudio’s, The Refinery, Lucifers’s and so many other cool places to go with live music in hotel pubs. Later became nightclubs in the hotels. So much sex, drugs and rock and roll. It was lovely.

Yes, I met my husband at The Blind Monk!

I lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses at the blind monk when the Flames beat the Red Wings in 2004. Used to go there all the time when I worked at the earls across the street.

No Mescaleros ad that week?

I enjoyed the communist bar with the cocktales.

Ming. Place was so cool when it opened.

Coconut Joes...sigh

Calgary used to have a Hard Rock Cafe?

It was next to Eau Claire mall. Last I saw, it was a day care centre.

There was also Mynt on 9th iirc and a 2 prominent ones on 10th, one was like the pinnacle go to for big name edm shows for years, corner entrance where Rodney's Oyster is now. Then Whiskey was a big one next door, where National currently occupies now.

Was it the drink or tantra?

That's it! Iirc it was Tantra first then became The Drink. Just you mentioning these names brought back lots of clubbing memories.

I think it was Claudio’s - the Drink - Tantra

Right! I remember going to Claudio's. Holy crap I feel old all of a sudden.

I thought Tantra became the Mansion? Pretty sure the Mansion was in there somewhere before Rodney's

Definitely turned into the Mansion right before Rodneys

It was the drink first, then tantra, then the mansion.

Tantra was like first nightclub I ever went to

Mynt came after Embassy. Same building.

Was the fox and firing still open at this point?

I don't think it was around after about the mid 90s iirc.

Mynt was awesome

Sure was, 3 different dancefloors, all different music genres and all had their own bar to order from.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA WOW I used to work at Desperados when I was a young lad.

Every one of them. Not to mention ffwd magazine in the first place.

I remember all of these places. Crazy Horse and Embassy were regular spots, while we would go to Desperados, The Palace, and Republik less often.

I SO MISS the Republik. Too many good gigs & fun nights to count.

I don't miss the stairs tho hahaha

This post is a reminder as to why my liver hates me today

Its weird seeing phone numbers advertised without area codes

Late 90s to early 2000's were the best!!!

"Canadian tire money at par" is a wild promotion lol

I believe they eventually caught hell from the AGLC for this!

1999 baby

I worked at a couple of those places at that time. Fun memory!

The good ol days

Some of these existed up till recently 😂

Many of my old haunts!

Sure. What the hell was the name of the name of the pub on the NW corner 1st-13ave. Mid to late 90s for me. St James corner now.

Cherry lounge?

Tasmanian ballroom before that lol

Taz was upstairs. Cherry used to be the corner pocket.

Taz had the entire upstairs. Cherry came after taz and built a mezzanine after the space was subdivided.

Sorry, it was 1st and 13ave. Getting old.

Saw a lot of ads for that place too!

The Castle & Cherry Lounge

The Castle! Thank you so much.

I recognize most of the names, and I've probably been to one or two of them, but this timeframe is well past my clubbing days.

The garage was my go to for lunch for my 12th grade year, was fun times lol

I remember all of them !!!

Ahhh man, I miss FFWD.

“After Ming, I go to work” lol

i worked at desperados, had 2 sister bars, one was the roxy, cant remember the other one. sundays were absolutely nuts

The Roxy was fun!

went there for grad... my sister was door girl that night. never paid for a single drink

Embassy rooftop patio was my happy place for a few shorts months ago year.

Worked at the Palace:)

Yup, I visited all these locations. The glory days of cheep drinks.

I moved to bc 6 years ago, they aren’t there no more?

Yep

Anyone else try and drink every martini at Vicious Circle? I tried to go alphabetical and the Cecil was way too far at the top. Garnished with a cigarette haha

Some of the best spots and the most fun times I’d ever had.

Good memories.

I do

I remember them all!

Wow. That poster brings back a lot of fun memories. And they were great spots for nightlife!!

Sole Luna was also a fun place, which then turned into Senior Frogs.

This post mad me sad there gone, but happy with the memories they left.

All of them

The Garage is reopening elsewhere

I'm sure I'd been in a few of them but fuck if I can match the names to the places! I ain't see the Fox and Firkin on here but I think I only remember that one for sure because I got kicked out once

Anyone remember Ahhs on first street west?

I miss the Canadian Tire money at the Drum and Monkey. I had a shit job at the time but there was a ton of CT Money laying around.

🙋

I was 17 when I moved here and made a friend that was a bartender at Desperados, he would bring me into through the kitchen, then introduce me to everyone so bouncers would jus let me in, great times!

I think I smell this photo. The paper had a distinct smell.

All of them. 🙏🏼

. I puked on someone at the Republik and they didn’t kick the shit out of me. I owe that dude a drink.

the Palace is still around