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Hey quick question not that it matters much i guess but on the registration form it asks for a "rat pack" :-) ?????? were there many rooms left for that weekend at the new grand? i need to ring them up and get me one.....oooh Keith whats ya number! :-) LOL
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The New Grand still has hostel rooms on the second floor at around $45. I just booked one for myself 'cause this year I plan on having a drinkie-poo or two.
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ya and second floor has the balcony for smoking right? great i will call them now.
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dam it they are all booked
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Watcha talking about Mike? I just called again and they still have hostel rooms left.
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ya but only the ones with no air cond etc so i booked a room over at the mountain hound , apparently it is just around the corner and i can still leave my bike at the new grand with the others so all is well. Plus king size bed, remote air and LCD!!! I am spoiled that way. LOL
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Mountain Hound rules. Been staying there for years. Never bothered to try and book at the New Grand. The Best Western is very nice but a little far away for walking (for out of shape bums like me).
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Years ago the Mountain Hound was called "The Queens" and was a stripper bar and a place to score (this, that and everything). I'm sure the vibes from yesteryear still permeate the walls and contribute to many a vivid dream. 
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lol ya well its a bed and its close, red some recent reviews that were pretty decent, not the ritz but a comfy olace to stay with the stuff you need, so be it, i am in at least LOL i should think i could crawl on my belly home if need be :-)
PS have no issues with vivid dreams LOL
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Oh yeah, for sure Mike. I was not implying The Hound is anything like its former self. Believe me... if it was still The Queens you'd be in and out in less than an hour! Heck, I remember when the New Grand was called the Lord Nelson and it too has an somewhat less-than-illustrious past. The pub had a giant mural of bulldogs playing billiards. I wish they'd kept that painting... it was amazing! Nelson has a pretty rough and tumble past full of miners, loggers, prospectors and later on, hippies... not the artsy fartsy Bohemian capital of the world (as freedom loves to call it) that it is now.
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Keith, was that the first floor (where the furniture store is now) or upstairs (or both)?
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Keith, was that the first floor (where the furniture store is now) or upstairs (or both)?
If it's the Hound you're asking about, all the action was on the first floor.
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They said at one point (and this was probably when we started staying there in 06 or 07 that it was a dance club downstairs. It was vacant and they let me stash a bunch of my gear in there so I didn't have to hike it upstairs.
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The dance club was AFTER my time. I frequented the place back in the early 70s when just about anything and everything happened there. It was a rough place... strippers, drugs, fights. Parked outside on the street would be hippies, dogs, packsacks, buskers, dealers and panhandlers while what went on inside, went on inside. Baker Street back in those days was a kind of Haight-Ashbury of the North.
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Damn... I missed it all! 
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I had to look up "busker",
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Damn... I missed it all!
Remember 2 Live Crew? The one year Freedom and I stayed at the Hume-idor they were playing there in the basement the night of the banquet. Yeah, they're still relevant. NOT.
No, we didn't go. But I swear you could just about hear them in our stiflingly hot 4th floor room. 
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I had to look up "busker",
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It's probably a uniquely Canadian word like "tuque," or "toonie."
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2 Live Crew in Nelson... I wonder what they were thinking when they got to Nelson and saw the place. Not the typical 2 Live Crew venue.
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Not for the 90s it's not, but today? It's about like the time I saw Vince Neil playing solo in West Yellowstone (wasn't my idea).
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No smoking up,there John.
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Oh yeah, for sure Mike. I was not implying The Hound is anything like its former self. Believe me... if it was still The Queens you'd be in and out in less than an hour! Heck, I remember when the New Grand was called the Lord Nelson and it too has an somewhat less-than-illustrious past. The pub had a giant mural of bulldogs playing billiards. I wish they'd kept that painting... it was amazing! Nelson has a pretty rough and tumble past full of miners, loggers, prospectors and later on, hippies... not the artsy fartsy Bohemian capital of the world (as freedom loves to call it) that it is now.
Yea now people have gargoyles on there roof.
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and big weed plans painted on the sides of the buildings... 
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The New Grand still has hostel rooms on the second floor at around $45. I just booked one for myself 'cause this year I plan on having a drinkie-poo or two.
What is this world coming too?  I know what I'll, er we'll be doing.
I know my friend John will be coming with me again. I don't know if anyone else will or not, I've been trying to get them to. Soren & Laurie???? 
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Really nice to hear both you and John will be coming, Brent. It was nip and tuck for me there for a while with plans to travel across the country conflicted with the Raid. All sorted out now though and I get to do both!
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Really nice to hear both you and John will be coming, Brent. It was nip and tuck for me there for a while with plans to travel across the country conflicted with the Raid. All sorted out now though and I get to do both!
so you going before or after keith? If before can ou arrange to swing by my way and ride up with us?
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Heading 'er out after, Mike.
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Heading 'er out after, Mike.
Nuts! LOL
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John and I got a room at the Hume. The Mt. Hound only had single bed rooms, and well, I like John, but not that much.
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sounds like it is going to be a decent show for this event, can't happen fast enough, heck i just want to take the tarp of my bike! LOL
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Just booked at best western.
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Glad you found a room, Marty. That will be a good and proper stagger home after a good night!
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Looking forward to seeing you all. I can hardly wait. 
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Just booked at best western.
Yahoo, i have someone to ride up with!
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Glad you found a room, Marty. That will be a good and proper stagger home after a good night!
Care to enlighten one as to how far that stagger really is .
just incase one actually gets ones erse to this shindig .
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.5 klm, about six minutes sober. Google maps doesn't have a stumble option 
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just incase one actually gets ones erse to this shindig .
Git yer arse up here in July and let that be the end of it. Gordie, it's bad... there literally NO ONE ELSE to go for a smoke with!!
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Gordie, I stayed next door to there at the Dancing Bear Hostel a couple years ago. It's about 5 or 6 blocks. No big deal unless you forget something in your room. 
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Care to enlighten one as to how far that stagger really is . just incase one actually gets ones erse to this shindig .
It's the far or reverse or opposite end of Baker Street from da' Hound Gordie. I know you know how to find Nelson, because I remember seeing you there. 
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