open da night fire
OK, I seem to be getting a bit off-topic of late, but here is a news story near and dear to my heart. A Montreal institution, Café Olympico, aka Open Da Night, burned down recently. It was a somewhat dangerous vortex (an geotechnical anomaly under the coner of St-Viateur and Waverly results in higher than average gravitational pull, and significantly increased magnetic activity, posing risks especially to those who work from home); but they made a mean coffee, Vito always knew what you wanted, and if you had to meet someone for a serious discussion about Tolstoy, or Murakami, or free software, or imporvisational jazz and experimental documentaries, well, it was the place to go. Also not bad for watching world cup soccer. I used to live just around the corner, and was known to sip on the occasional caffeine-infused beverage there.
Anyway, the place burned down, while I was in Chisasibi: I learned about it while I was up there from mehdi’s blog, just sort of by accident; he’s got some pics of the sad day.
I suspect they’ll open again, but those posters of the 1982 Italian soccer team (world cup champs) are all, I am sure, gone.
More shots: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/opendanite/
Comment by Seb — January 16, 2005 @ 9:57 pm
hey seb, thanks for the link, flickrs great isn’t it?
Comment by hugh — January 16, 2005 @ 10:37 pm
Tokyo > Montreal in under a second
I’m sitting in the Good Day Café, just off Aoyma Itchome/Omotesando (search me how the street names work in this place…) in Harajuku, Tokyo. I spark my NewsReader, go to my folder of Montreal RSS subscriptions… and I am 100%…
Trackback by bopuc/weblog — January 18, 2005 @ 2:15 am
Tooo bad, I am in Colombo in my favorite cafe here thinking about all the tabacco stains on the walls and those old wooden square chairs they used to have maybe they ll bring those back?
Good luck hope to see back on track soon.
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