With apologies to Martin Luther King, I have a dream today.
I have a dream that all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and...dance at my disco club.
Each time I pass the former Peterborough Arms building at Charlotte and Rubidge streets, it all comes to me in a vision. It brings a tear to my eye to see that once grand structure in such a butt-ugly state of disrepair but I have a dream. A discotheque complete with a huge record turntable for a dance floor.
Awesome but it gets better. The turntable dance floor, which is cut through the building wall and juts onto the where the patio once was, turns slowly. On a typical Saturday night, the masses will boogie inside and out, the "outties" even able to enjoy a puff before rejoining the world on the inside. And in the middle of the big LP (Remember those?), a bar swathed in the multi-coloured lighting that makes us all look good if only for a bit.
I have a dream today. Time to check my Wednesday night 6/49 ticket and come back to the real world.
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I am a short man whose grey hair is turning black. I love my family, live for my friends and die with my Maple Leafs. I have been to Dallas and know who shot JFK but can't say just yet. I have lived in the wonderfully fine city of Peterborough, Ontario since 1989 and am a huge fan of its live entertainment and Corona with lime.
4 comments:
Awesome. This is definitely something this town needs. If i went to your disco, and i most certainly would, i would be an "inny"
you get down with your bad self!!
I can't belive we share the same dream...bring on the ABBA..and the platform shoes
I always thought the Peterborough Arms was a little over rated. It was too small and the food really wasn't that good.
However, I agree with your notion of the "Love of the Pub"! There really hasn't been anything that isn't some chain that has replaced it. Bring on the ABBA as far as I am concerned.
By the way good luck to your son and joining the RCR. Remember to tell him to cut his hair razor short before he goes and pack light. He won't need anything he can't fit in a napsack. If its Infantry training he is going through then they are going to be extra tough on them.
Your family is now the back bone of the country. But, don't let him believe that if he fails he is letting down his family. I went through a Combat of Arms platoon and we started with 160 guys and finished with 87.
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