GardenViewRestaurant

NilsClausson writes: I lived in Halifax from 1971 to 1976 and can confirm that the Garden View Restaurant on SpringGardenRoad was a popular eating place for gays and lesbians who lived in the area. It was a Chinese restaurant, though it served Canadian food too. DavidGray (who operated the bar in the GreenLantern Building), BrianDoat (the DJ at the club from about 1974 to at least 1976), TommyBurns (the first chairman of GaeGala), and myself used to eat there frequently as we lived close by in the Green Lantern Building, and we always ran into regulars from the Club when we went there. As I recall (from the perspective of 30 years!) its decor was rather kitchy, with huge murals of Chinese gardens from which it got its name.

DanielMacKay writes: it was a hangout because it was open very late and was on TheTriangle. It's also possible that the name came from its proximity - a half a block - to the Public Gardens

HistoryProjectTodoList: NorvalCollins? says it was open 24 hours, have to verify.

Tammy writes: The Garden View (or "Gag and Spew") was a mainstay in the gay community in Halifax in the mid-eighties. Many a night was spent there after the club to eat, cruise, or just to escape the cold with a coffee. It was on the block of Spring Garden with Dresden Row on the right and Birmingham Street on the left - the two streets that met at Sackville Street to form the infamous cruising/hustling strip of the era known as the Triangle. It was between the CIBC building on Spring Garden Road and (the former) My Mother's Bloomers. These days, it is home to the entrance to HMV.

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DougBrown? writes: I can remember the Garden View on Spring Garden Road next the CIBC during the late 50s through 1970s. The restaurant of the Same name on Main St. in Dartmouth is a branch of the original and owned by the same family. It still may be.