A Brief History Of 2112 Gottingen St:
- April 29, 1949 opened as The Vogue by Franklin and Herschorn
- 1970 sold to Famous Players
- 1972 renamed Eve and switched to adult movies
- 1974 renamed The Cove
- August 25, 1985, The Cove closed
- 1986: redecorated as an alcohol-free youth headbanger club, Club Flamingo. The name was registered with the Province on 1983-11-17 by Greg Clark and William L Burke. In 1986 Keith G Tufts & Frederic Honig reregistered the name with a Maritime Center address, and renamed it "Pub Flamingo."
- 1987: GaeGala buys it and Rumours moved in, with more or less the same setup and decor as Club Flamingo.
- 1995: Rumours closed
- WormwoodsDogAndMonkeyCinema moves in. Closes in 1997
- March '99: MilleniumBar moves in, closes in July
- Some time in 2000: Starts getting used for raves under the name Filter.
- 2003: ditto, Club Red
- April 2004: the plastic letter board reads: Club 2112 Opening This Spring
- June 2004: the reference to Club 2112 is removed from the plastic letter board. Opening This Spring remains.
- August 2004: the sign now reads Open Sooner or Later.
- 2007-02-15: TheCoast article "Punch it up" says, "Mickey MacDonald, a local entrepreneur and businessman, has purchased the building and is turning it into a boxing gym. He plans to call it Palooka's Gym, after the titular boxing hero in the Joe Palooka boxing comic strip from the 1930s." MacDonald was appointed chair of the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority in February 2006.
- 2007-10-16: CBC Information Morning piece with MacDonald says he's stripped the asbestos, put on a new roof, and the new boxing gym, "Joe Palooka's" is about 75-80% finished.
A much more complete history written by LynnMurphy can be found in the archives of WayvesMagazine.
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