Winnipeg Construction IX - Page 288

dmacc · #**5741** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 6:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by oftheMoon

Oh Branigan's...how about a Grapes on Albert!

ooooh, Nips at Sal's anyone?

1ajs · #**5742** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 6:16 PM**

hope not

Jeff · #**5743** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 6:51 PM**

chi chis!

the article is also a bit cringe-worthy when he said most of his other buildings are low-income and that he is very good at managing them all with no problems... not holding my breath on anything happening here until the abyss forming by the st. Charles finally swallows this entire block.

rkspec · #**5744** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 7:19 PM**

i'd be a regular if Bonanza would open up again

esquire · #**5745** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by rkspec

i'd be a regular if Bonanza would open up again

Bonanza-Royal Fork Buffet combo location. Coming soon to the Exchange District!

Wouldn't that be something.

Roger Strong · #**5746** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 7:52 PM**

The Royal Crown! On top of the Royal Albert!

They can enlist folks in the low income units below as pedal power to turn the thing, in exchange for rent. It's the way of the future!

wags_in_the_peg · #**5747** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 7:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by rkspec

i'd be a regular if Bonanza would open up again

one of the last remaining ones is in Moose Jaw, was there in dec, but never made it to Bonanza. The salad bar was legendary.

My prediction is Wagon Wheel (famous clubhouse) or Grapes

trueviking · #**5748** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 9:04 PM**

bonanza still exists in the states.

https://www.pon-bon.com/bonanza/

Ponderosa is popular in Asia...I saw one in Cairo.

cheswick · #**5749** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

one of the last remaining ones is in Moose Jaw, was there in dec, but never made it to Bonanza. The salad bar was legendary.

My prediction is Wagon Wheel (famous clubhouse) or Grapes

There was also one in Saskatoon upto a year ago. I remember one in Regina too when I briefly worked there about 10 years ago, not sure when it shut down. I guess Saskatchewan is the last bastion for Bonanza.

I remember Bonanza was a go to as a family restaurant as a child.

1ajs · #**5750** Posted **Jan 15, 2018, 11:17 PM**

id rather we got the Chinese restraunt back that we lost to that fire in that space or somthing simlar.

SKYSTHELIMIT · #**5751** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 12:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by borkborkbork

The new owner is Neil Soorsma (?) who describes himself a "successful landlord who has redeveloped a number of buildings over a 30-year real estate career" (???)

And here's the oh-lordy moment: They're planning a restaurant. Quote, "It’s not a name young people might remember, but it’s a good restaurant with a good history in the city"

It's going to be a Branigan's, isn't it.

I’ll throw my guess in...Bombay Bicycle Club lol. Loved having brunch there.

wags_in_the_peg · #**5752** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 3:48 PM**

Mr Greenjeans? anyone remember that from City Place (back b4 it was called City Place)

rkspec · #**5753** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 3:51 PM**

lol mr greenjeans....they had wicked buffalo chips!

cheswick · #**5754** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 4:24 PM**

Anyone know of a place called Underground Pizza Parlour that was in the exchange. Someone was telling me about it and they had speakers at the table that the waiter would join in the conversations that were happening or something. It sounds pretty bizarre.

SKYSTHELIMIT · #**5755** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 4:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

Mr Greenjeans? anyone remember that from City Place (back b4 it was called City Place)

Where BPs is now right?

Roger Strong · #**5756** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

Mr Greenjeans? anyone remember that from City Place (back b4 it was called City Place)

Is that the one that ended on the lesson that when the sewer backs up into the kitchen, health inspectors get really irritable about you continuing to serve food?

oftheMoon · #**5757** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 7:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

Mr Greenjeans? anyone remember that from City Place (back b4 it was called City Place)

There was also Jonathon's in cityplace (nee Eaton Place) that sat right in the middle of the mall at the base of the escalators.

LilZebra · #**5758** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 7:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

Mr Greenjeans? anyone remember that from City Place (back b4 it was called City Place)

Yes, it was from the 1980s. And when I got my first office job, with Air Canada in Nov. - Dec. 1988, as a last day party thing after 7 wks. temping, our bosses took us out to Mr. Greenjeans.

Sad that they closed a year or two after that.

LilZebra · #**5759** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 7:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by SKYSTHELIMIT

Where BPs is now right?

My memory is hazy now, 30 years later, but I think Greenjeans / Jonathans was closer to the PharmaPlus space.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**5760** Posted **Jan 16, 2018, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by LilZebra

My memory is hazy now, 30 years later, but I think Greenjeans / Jonathans was closer to the PharmaPlus space.

Greenjeans was where BP is now. Jonathons was in the center court opposite Petland and the bookstore, Coles I think it was. I worked at both of them.