TS; The Bay vs Eatons

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The oldest coporation versus our dearly beloved Eatons. FITE!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Are there still Eatons sections in Sears in Ontario?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope, its still The Eatons Center, but its sorts getting replaced by the owners who aren't Sears. They still kept the supper cool (but overpriced) theme rooms for furniture on the third or fourth floors. Its cooler then it sounds.
There is also another Eaton's where they are reopening the theater/lounge as a seperate entity.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I hate Eatons only because the Regina Business Lobby used their demise as an excuse to bully the City into getting rid of the municipal business tax under the pretense that doing so would keep the dept. store open and not create more vacancy in downtown Regina. It didn't make a lick of difference, small business owners have seen a savings of (this number comes from the owner of a successful laundromat) $12 a year, big corporate entities have saved tens of thousands (like the ont.-based mall owners) and not contributed to the upkeep of roads that they use, and the city has faced one budgetary shortfall after another, passing the difference on to property tax payers. Meanwhile the Business Lobby, having bullied City Council into scrapping the business tax, are now convinced that they have a lot of weight to throw around. Which is illogical to me, because now that they don't pay business tax, shouldn't they not have a say in the running of municipal affairs???
I mean, no taxation without representation ergo shouldn't it follow that you get no representation without taxation???

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

On a weekday exploration trip around The Bay, we found the sort of hidden large appliance floor. Its a half floor on the Bay Street end of the building. The cool part was at the extreme end of that floor was another floor had a cafeteria and a piano bar that looked pretty nice. Up a grand staircase was an art gallery or something. Didn't get a chance to go there though. Elsewhere in the store they were playing old Thor cartoons. I didn't know anyone would put those onto VHS/DVD let alone try to sell them.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, no taxation without representation ergo shouldn't it follow that you get no representation without taxation???

Thats yanbkee thinking there Horace, we just said whatever and built a railroad instead.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

where does Simpsons fit into all this?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if they do, s1utsky. I shop at the Bay all the time mostly for clothes. I loved Eatons mostly for the way I felt when in the store. The last gasp they had under Sears ownership was just sad, but the stores are nice.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, Eatons (for the TS bit).

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Bay!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to like the Bay when it had its own building, but now it's moved into the old Eatons, so it's basically Eatons and there's another big fat fucking empty building in downtown Regina.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Bay too, but I don't get the tingly feeling that I got going into an Eatons store when I go into a Bay store. And by the way, MORE CANADIAN THREADS, PLEASE!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(we could take over the Matrix threads, since Keanu and C-A Moss are Canooks, but I'm not sure we want to admit to that)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. Too bad we're so fucking boring up here. Do you think Play is the best Canadian show of all time? I don't, but it is very good.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe we can talk about canadian movies, but I don't want to get depressed!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Has there been a Highway 61 thread?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Macdonald is cool.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna be the devil. I'd go to all the bingos around here and CLEAN UP.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen any of his movies in YEARS.
But Roadkill introduced me to the genius of Don McKellar!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

please have a Highway 61 thread

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I like both -- I'd pick either of them over the krunky Marshall Fields.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Don McKellar in Arrowhead, that crazy short he was in. I can't believe it's rated under 5 on the IMDB.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Roadkill needs a DVD re-issue if it hasn't had one already. Neon Rome could deal with a cd re-issue.
We have done a Bruce Macdonald thread already I think.

The Bay is hugely overpriced in bath wares though. Grrrrrrrr.

highway 61 also stars Art Bergman and has Jello Biafra as a customs agent.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

is Arrowhead the fake doc about the, uh, mastodon he found behind his apartment complex?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

brian you should weigh in on my hinterland thread: the hinterland who's who!!!

from long-ago memory: eaton's cafeteria > the bay cafeteria.

― jones (actual), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

In Toronto, that is correct. But the Eaton's doesn't have an art gallery or piano lounge.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah it is, Horace. Hilarious. Eatons cafeterias were really good, but the Paddlewheel here in the downtown Bay is the best place to go looking for freaks there is.
The scene in Highway 61 where the devil makes the little girl cry telling her she's an ugly little girl is possibly the best scene in any Canadian movie ever. You guys like Whale Music?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw that once on TV by accident and realized I never knew what it was called.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the bay caf in toronto has a piano lounge?!! has it always? the one in victoria was a dank smoky hovel in the basement iirc

best features of both in days of yore:
- jello w/ whipped cream in fake crystal dishes
- the regulars! it was like a women's auxiliary legion in there.

― jones (actual), Thursday, 6 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(both eaton's & the bay i mean, not victoria & toronto)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 6 November 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what's great about the Paddlewheel here! Crazy old ladies with wigs and really bright lipstick eating fish and chips!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

- jello w/ whipped cream in fake crystal dishes
ding ding ding ding ding
shared memory alarm!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I shudder when I hear the phrase "the genius of don mckellar"

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 6 November 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not just a piano bar up there on the 8th floor of the Bay - It's the Arcadian Court which = super swanky banquet digs. http://ontheedgeproductions.com/acourt/video.html (click that if you have windows media player)
The still vintage washrooms tucked away in corners of some of the salesfloors are kind of charming too.

I really miss Eatons. Disappointingly, I've heard that they actually *are* seriously considering renaming the Eaton Centre for whatever new corporate sponsor wants to pay. History be damned. Boo.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 7 November 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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