Wednesday, November 26, 1975

On first impression, early in the
evening when the lights are high
and the crowd hasn’t yet arrived,
the place has an appearance of
being another North American
plastic copy of the well-worn
original.

The copper-ware hanging from
the ceiling is too new: it shines
brightly, too brightly, lacking
dents, scars and the patina of
time.

The wooden beams too are
missing something. They’re old
wood, filled with cracks and
crevices and holes from a
previous use, but the black paint
covering them is too obviously
black paint — not the dirt and
- grime that come only from many
years of smoke.

But the service is as friendly as
the real thing. The owner’s
daughter sings along as she waits
on tables, and as the evening
moves by an atmosphere of
something other than newness
and plastic takes over.

By ten o’clock all but the most
reluctant are singing along with a
moon-lighting school teacher-
cum-piano player. He knows most
of the old ones, plays them on
request, sings along himself and
leaves his boater upside down on —
the upright in case anyone wants
to make a contribution.

Eric Lewis’ Waddling Dog Inn
isn’t really a pub — at least not
according to Liquor Control
Board regulations — but it’s
closer to one than anything else in
the area.

Actually, Lewis explains, it’s a

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JOSEPHINE

Highway ‘ Pub’ Makes Up In Friendliness
What It Lacks In Age

By Joshua Perlmutter

the government,

SAANICH
PENINSULA
EMERGENCY FUND

general meeting

Vaughn-Birth hall, Fourth St.,
Sidney on December 2 at 8
p.m. to formulate plans for
Christmas. assistance to the
less fortunate in our area.
This is a public meeting and,

urged to attend. For
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DEC. 1-12, 1975

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PUBLIC MEETING
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holding bar for his Pat Bay High-
way restaurant. It used to be a
garage. A garage that gained a
certain amount of fame when
Lewis’ strong political leanings
put him face-to-face with Im-
perial Oil and the New
Democratic Party over
readograph signs that criticised
not always

gently.

But Lewis seems to change a
little too as the hours pass.

Working behind the bar with
two young University students
and the former gas pump
operator who’s been with him for
years, he looks and acts the
friendly, smiling barman.

He can’t sell draught beer, but
big mugs of the bottled stuff and
other more exotic libations lend a
mellower and mellower air to his
establishment.

The lights are turned down;
couples in their twenties and
sixties move slowly around the
dance floor. Two young Danes,
with an English girl and her
parents, struggle through old
country beer hall tunes. Their
smiles are broad, the music’s
easy and the peninsula’s best
drinking establishment is well on
its way to another successful
Saturday night.

By closing, even the copper

seems to have taken on a subtler

hue.

It’s people who make a pub, you
realize.

The Waddling Dog’s decor will
get better as it gets older, but the
spirit is there already.

the Margaret

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COMMUNITY
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Peninsula residents are
invited to participate in a
community service fair to be
held in Victoria Saturday.

The sponsors of the one day
event are the Regional Ad-
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Capital Region. During the
afternoon the public is invited
to meet community
organizations who will have
booths set up in St. John’s
Anglican Church, 1611 Quadra
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The public will be invited to
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when a number of community
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