Viscount Motor Hotel – 1964

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• I think CKLW used to have their studios on the tower section of the hotel. There was also a pool at the far south end of the main floor. When was the building demolished?

• Brian, not sure when it was demolished. I'm pretty sure it was gone by the time I came to Windsor in 1989.

• The Sheraton-Viscount Motor Hotel was originally a 4 story structure built in 1964. An 18 story tower was added a year or so later and featured entertainment facilities, a Biff,s Coffee Shop and 5 bars, including the "Crazy Horse Saloon", an old west themed saloon (complete with sawdust on the floors!) located on the lower level of the original 4 story structure.
  The "Top of the Town" on the 17th floor featured dancing and live bands which converted to a Star Trek themed discotheque called "Disco-Trek" in the hotel's later years.
  Radio station CKWW-FM was located on the top floor and later changed to CJOM-FM, a rock station.
  In it's final years, it was sold to Wandlyn Hotels and became the Wandlyn-Viscount.
  In 1983 the hotel closed and was demolished in 1987. A planned condominium project never materialized and the property was eventually sold to Hotel-Dieu Hospital for parking.

• I remember the Viscount only for going there to get fares and Biff's Coffee Shop, butr dont remember much else about it. Spent more time at the Bali Hai down the street. Is that still around?

• I remember the Viscount only for going there to get fares and Biff's Coffee Shop, but dont remember much else about it. Spent more time at the Bali Hai down the street. Is that still around?

• i remember Biffs coffee shop but does anybody remember the bar that was in the basement i think it was called the boots and saddles they had saw dust on the floor got wasted there a few times

• CKWW was and still is an AM station at 580 on the dial, after the Vicount site it moved to Cabana Rd. Now owned by the same company as CKLW.CJOM was the FM station of CKWW, or CKLW.

• i must be blind the crazy horse thats the bar with the saw dust floor

• Tom the Bali Hai is now a rest home for people with mental problems

• there was another coffee shop similar to Biffs somewhere near where the exchange on ouellette is now AAron do you recall the name of that one it seems to me that you could walk in off ouellette and walk out the back onto pelisier street