Royale Tavern

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• What will Windsor become if we keep taking down treasures like this ?

• wow....it never ends. i really believe that if you want people to know that taking down pieces of history like this affects the overall community, then we should organize a public protest/vigil, whatever you want to call it. when is the school by the university coming down? is there a date for that? that would be a perfect start to get vocal. it's important to let people outside the blog community know how important saving our past is.

• Geesh. Pretty soon we'll have more Shoppers' than Tim Hortons.

• There's already a SDM just eight blocks from there. Interesting. Just a year ago, we were complaining about all the neighbourhood convienence stores being converted into duplexes and giving away to big box stores like Walmart. Now, neighbourhood convienence stores like SDM and Rexall are sprouting up across neighbourhoods within walking distance so we don't have to drive to the big box stores and we're complaining again. Or is it that you'd rather have Hussein open up a local convienence store with everything written in Arabic? (Stucco came from the middle east, so I doubt you'll see a different result). At least, SDM puts them out of business.

• There is a Shoppers at Wyandotte and St. Louis. Anyone know if this will close as a result of this new one? It would be a shame to see this building torn down for another lateral move.

• hez - I believe that's the plan...

• The latest I heard on these developments is that the permit to build has been denied.

• So what? Stucco is great and big box stores are even better. That is why everyone shops there. Is isn't because people are sheep itis because they are smart and savvy and love getting into cars, driving and then parking in the lot to get their chinese made goods for a pittance while ignoring the locally owned store right beside it.

  Who doesn't love a card where you can get points to spend on more chinese made junk?

  I wonder if an employee brought something in to resell if Shopper's would be made to buy a re-selling license for $140 to sell a few home items? I know INDEPENDANT, LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES have to do that. Windsor wouldn't want to have a large small business base would they? Of course not! We can rely on the automotive industry for another 100 years!

  Just think of the tourists who will flock here to see our stucco buildings (which may or may not give competition to real places where stucco is a true art form like Nevada or Arizona) and big box stores. These visitors will leave their stucco, big box store cities to come and look at OUR stucco, big box stores. Why? Because everyone loves it! Homogenization is great! Being the same as everyone else (and following in footsteps is even better) is the goal here! Why be different?

• Hez, you mean like the banks in downtown? Or Home Crapot? Nothing like destroying one building to move or to move in another 5 years and do the same thing again. Windsor rocks!

• No tears from me on the Royale coming down. It was a decent place at one time.....Like the 1950's! It's been a low-brow swill hole for too long and the apartments are low-rent dives. I grew up in the area and my mother had the baby shower for me there in the winter of 1970. They were regulars and have many good times there but the party is over and has been for some time.