-Once known as the ravine
-I remember going there with my dad as a kid during the Riviera days. Then as a teen it hosted under age dances, very cool! Great memories.
Now, I shudder when my kids go there.
-Use to go there every Sunday afternoon back in the 60's to dance ( was called the Riviera Club back than )
-Remember that too.....and Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins playing there!
-Great Place . Met a lot of different folks from out of town. Loved the Sunday Dances.
-Went to Sunday afternoon dances there as well. Loved it. Only one I can remember seeing there is Ronnie Hawkins. Went as many Sundays as we cud find a ride to get there.
-Robbie Lane & Disciples played there a lot of Sundays.
-Was such a great place to go in the good old days !
-Bobby Curtola was there once. Marlene Heisler got him to autograph her arm lol
-Still Have his autographed pic! 😂
-I got an autograph from him too that day!
-I think it was called the Way Jay back when I used to go to the teen dances 😊
-OMG YES the Way Jay back in the day. Disco lived strong here LOL
-Won a few dance contests in my time!
-Our grade 13 prom was held there when it was the Riviera .I believe it was called Some enchanted evening . I remember Emil Zuber building it and my brother Phil worked there.
-I remember when it was Club 2000 in the late 80's
-I remember when It was Club 2000. I was in high school and I couldn’t wait to turn 19 so I could go than sadly before that could happen Club 2000 was no more. I was so upset.
-That's Norval people.
-Yepppp the music was so loud coming from there but I would still dance in my bedroom lol good ol' riviera days
-I think they used to hold bingo there as well ???
-they did way back in the 80's
-70s won my first thousand there
-ok it must of my been in the 80's too because I went and I wasn't 18 until 1982, unless you could play bingo there younger than 18 back then?
-So many great bands played at the Riviera , so much fun !
-WOW ........great memories from this place - the old Riviera .......first formal there with Ernie back in 1965 - big fund raising Ball for the Hospital!
-My two sisters Kim, Linda (McCartney) worked as servers and I worked in the cloakroom when it was the Riviera. Loved working on New Years eve in the early 70’s so much fun. Tips were great back then.
-I probably worked with you early seventies
-Blue Rodeo there at Club 2000 (early 90’s)
-I remember the Burgundy Club.
-It looks very tired now compared to when it was built.
Good fun on Sunday afternoon dances there.
-Gene Watson played there too, back in the day
-Lot of memories there.
-Best was Del Shannon in 1978
-The WayJay club- Staying Alive- so much fun
-Great Dance Hall when Zuber built it in the 60s, BYOB back in those days LOL. Burgundy Club when they put on the addition in the 70s with the indoor pool, gym& outdoor pool! Way Jay in the late 70s, teen dances we used to attend in the main hall on sat. Nights and licensed bar upstairs in the addition. Was known to attend both venues on in the same evening LOL
-That's when I worked as a hostess 1969 onwards. Great memories.
-Lots of fun there you could even go Bar hopping across the street
-I served food way back in the day , when it was “The Riviera Club”!
-The newfy club had it for a few years also had some great times there over the years
-remember playing there in 1973-1975 with the Mystics as their bass guitar player.Lots of great times. The acoustics in the ball room were fantastic.The sunken dance floor & the upstairs dining area .it was a great spot but to close to the river.Can't wait for the talk on the Hollywood house across the street.I played there many times in the early seventies with a band from Oakville.I have lots of stories to tell about that place when Tom Johnson was the owner. Ivan Reynolds was the bartender.,then Big Lou was one of the waiters ,Jack King was also there serving beer.Lots of memories & lots of stories...
-Great times 👍🏻many memories
-My first job when it was called the Riviera
-Mom went there for bingo. They had a pick-up bus route around town. John and Victoria was on the list.
-Had my grad 12 prom there
-I served there years ago!
-When it was the Riviera Club
-Anyone remember the original name of the place back in the 70's
-Riviera
-My parents went dancing there when it was The Riviera.
-I remember going there with a friend in the nineties
-I went there in the eighties.
-I remember when it was Club 2000
-Wow... A real blast from the past. My first job was there. I was very young.
-Back in the 60's, the Riviera held Sunday afternoon dances for the teen crowd. Remember seeing Diana Ross and the Supremes there. Other head liners of the day, as well. Todays youth are really missing out on the dance scene.
-Had a Blast there ...lol.
-As did many of us in the 70s 😉
-Seen Rompin RONNY Hawkins there
-I met a former manager. And gave him the historic names of this club! it was funny cuz I just kept going back into the '60's (Riviara).Talked of the alcohol free dances at the Way Jay. Lol lots of fun remembering good times.
-Ben Heppes, Jim Robertson and I owned it when it was the WAY JAY...Debbie and Ken Baker were the first two people to have memberships to the Way Jay Fitness Club :)
-I didn't grow-up in Georgetown, but my husband did.Hal Barton.i went to a few things around the area.
-My brother Fred had his wedding reception there in 1969 !
-Lots of memories at the Riviera and Hollywood.
-Fun memories!
-Saw Bruce Cockburn there in March 1982
-Some great times...... lots of super memories
-Saw the Dixie Chicks there (The place was only half full) 1996 ! 💎&💎
-I remember living in Toronto & hearing of people going to a dance in Norval that lived in T O. It was considered a very posh venue to go to back in the day.
-Wow, wish I had gone to the dixie chicks there!
-went to the Way Jay in the late 70's
-That's the name I was looking for. Wow OLD memories
-I thought Way Jay was only the small bar off to the right? And remember Club 2000.
-So many fond memories, worked there for many years when it was the Riviera and Burgundy Club. Rhona Scholz(Gadd) and I were the first bunnies for the teen club. We also had our wedding reception there in 1970.
-That was the name I could never remember. My parents did ball room dancing. It’s a spring dance floor there
-The grounds were very pretty and we thought this was a beautiful place for a photo.
-I saw Frank Soda 1984
-I seem to remember it was called Hollywood. Nashville was across the street where the pancake place was...
-Across the street from the Riviera was the Hollywood House and was much later the pancake place
-Way Jay Club!
-Was this the old way jay
-The Riviera!
-The Riviera
-the memories of this place.
-Used to play The Riviera many a Sunday Night as the Five Outcasts until Nick Zerba found Richard Blackwell’s bass drum full of bags of potato chips one night that were destined for our weekly band practices at tom Thompson’s House. We were unceremoniously fired.
-we went to school together I'm sure ,with Brent Barkhouse, Reg Laws, Marty fowler
-I remember the dances we used to go to there in the 60s. Lot of fun!
-Remember it as Riviera and and as the Way Jay. Never went when it was the Riviera. Was too young but I did go when it was the Way Jay.
-Remember this place well, mostly as the Way jay, but do remember the Riviera. Great times, that and the old Hollywood Tavern
-I remember it as the Way Jay and worked there when it was Club 2000
Alannha Myles performed there
It was a fantastic show 👍
-It was The Way Jay Club when I was a young...a long time ago 😨
-great times there
-I took Karate there with Bill Pickles back in the 70s. The place would flood every spring and we would have to lift our gi bottoms and tiptoe through the water.
-Had high school formal here in 1972.
-Saw Alanah Myles there back in 90's
-I think the last time I was in the building was in maybe around 2000. I took my daughters to see a fake Spice Girls group! 😝
-Saw Blue Rodeo there.
-OMGosh.. the old Riviera Club. It was the only job I was ever fired from when they found out I was only 15 lol. Working in the nightclub in the 60's; when they asked me why I didn't tell them I was that age I said "because you never asked"...... guess I just looked older😊
-Worked there with the owners kid for a short time
-played Bingo there ,when kids where small/my nite out
-RivieraClub
-Didn't someone try to run a folk music festival there too? Garden Brothers Circus set up their tent in the parking lot one summer too!
-I remember Garden's being there
-That's where I saw the "Chippendales"
-omg, i forgot that my mom and i went
-Lovely organized Christmas party's from Ford parts depot Bramalea
-Good memories
-Back in the day it was the Burgundy club
-Nashville North, many a time socializing over drinks or playing pool to country music...and all the uproar when cover charges came along! Ha! 🍻
-Met the mother of my two oldest boys there.
-WAY- JAY!! for me in the 70s/80s so much fun!
-Used to work that after I graduated from GDHS. Worked in the office 12-8pm shift and worked as a Hostess. We sure had a blast there didn't we girls.
-I remember going there , fun times !!
-Worked there when it was the Riveara I was 15 years old
-Maestro Fresh Wes and Young MC... stood in the cold for two hours to see them.
-Worked there when it was club 2000, coat check girl..lol
-Coney Hatch 1981
-It was always ahead of its time!!
Rented my PA to the RIVERA...for BINGO in the 70’s .. played there in the 90’s with “Perfect Strangers” & “Freebird” some great shows over the years.
-I think I had a beer there!
-I think I delivered beer there lol...helped my uncle
-Saw Eric Burdon & War there at Georgetowns only Blues festival !🎶 Sky Pilot ,🎶(about 20 Yrs ago ?)It was a great night!💎&💎PS.And many others ! Nazareth/Edger Winter with Rick Derringer/The Dixie Chick's/Little Texas/ Jimmy Flynn/ etc.etc.
-I saw Small Towns play there a few times😊
-Was disco before.
-Remember when it was the Riviera Club.