2112 Gottingen Street / Vogue Theatre / Cove Theatre
- 1848 - at least 1898
- the North Baptist Church.
- 1935 (ca)
- Community Theatre, 600 seats, at 208 Gottingen (old street numbering.) Closed about 1947.
1946
- April 29, 1948
- opened as The Vogue by Franklin and Herschorn, 936 seats
- 1970
- sold to Famous Players
- 1972
- renamed Eve; the only adult movie theatre in Halifax
- 1974
- renamed The Cove
- August 25, 1985
- The Cove closed
- 1986
- redecorated as an alcohol-free youth alternative music club, Club Flamingo. The name was registered on November 17, 1983 by Greg Clark and William L Burke. In 1986 Keith Tufts & Derick Honig reregistered the name with a Maritime Center address, and renamed it "Pub Flamingo." The venue had a repertory cinema element and an intended record label too—Flamingo Records—though Out of the Fog was the first and last release. (Clark says, “Getting involved with one band was a bit of a conflict of interest in terms of trying to promote everybody. There was volatility.”) Clark, Tufts and Honig also launched a short-lived entertainment magazine, New Works, that lasted about a year.
1987 - after GALA bought it, after the balcony was renovated to floor space, before we painted it black. Photo from the RobinMetcalfe collection.- 1987
- The gay community, GALA bought it and Rumours moved in, with more or less the same setup and decor as Club Flamingo.
- 1995
- GALA wound down and Rumours closed - see those pages for the history.
ca. 1996. Photographer unknown.- September 21, 1995 - February 26, 1998
- WormwoodsDogAndMonkeyCinema.
- December 31, 1996
- A bunch of quite good photos of the interior, taken at the New Years Eve party, were posted by John Wamboldt to "The Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Cinema Group" Facebook group on April 19, 2021.
- March, 1999
- MilleniumBar moves in, closes in July, 1999
- Some time in 2000
- Starts getting used for raves under the name Filter.
- 2003
- ditto, Club Red
2004- April, 2004
- the plastic letter board reads: Club 2112 Opening This Spring. Ron Foley Macdonald writes: Club 2112 was Greg Clarke's thing, with a mix of live and film. I booked the films for him--I remember Don't Look Back and Yellow Submarine, all in 35mm.
- 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.
- February 15, 2007
- 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.
- October 16, 2007
- 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.
- August 8, 2011
- Palookas announces they will cease regular operations as of October 31, 2011
- January 4, 2012
- Building has been sold to Shaw Television GP Inc., who confirms that Global Maritimes will move there from Burnside. The new studio is expected to be operational by September.
A much more complete history written by LynnMurphy can be found in the archives of WayvesMagazine.
This page is part of Rumours, GayBars, and HistoryProject.
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