(incidentally, the James St. Feed Company is on the opposite side of the street, so you need to rotate that google image if you see the pub/restaurant)
My one vague memory of the Rat Hole was one Saturday morning in the 1960s, watching a sequence of Three Stooges movies, knee deep in garbage, and some kid in front of us turning around and spitting at us. We probably took him outside and gave him a lesson he’d never forgot, but that might be a dream sequence…
But this theatre should be down as the Rialto, not the Phoenix. Nobody of any merit should remember the Phoenix.
(incidentally, the James St. Feed Company is on the opposite side of the street, so you need to rotate that google image if you see the pub/restaurant)
There’s a pretty good website about old Ottawa which has a photo of the Rialto (which became the Phoenix, which closed). It was at Bank and Waverly:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u2WcNSWdwE8/Sxck9XgR-fI/AAAAAAAACKI/Xkpj_MZCMgc/s1600-h/rialto.jpg
and this is what it looks like today, a vacant lot: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u2WcNSWdwE8/Sxckzbkc5oI/AAAAAAAACKA/tE97tq7yzIg/s400/PB290050.JPG
Well it is possible the Rialto was at a different location at one point but it was definitely on Bank Street when I was a kid.
My one vague memory of the Rat Hole was one Saturday morning in the 1960s, watching a sequence of Three Stooges movies, knee deep in garbage, and some kid in front of us turning around and spitting at us. We probably took him outside and gave him a lesson he’d never forgot, but that might be a dream sequence…
But this theatre should be down as the Rialto, not the Phoenix. Nobody of any merit should remember the Phoenix.