CLOSED.
This club is now closed and...
CLOSED.
This club is now closed and out of business. Never much of strip club anyway and more of a dump bar.
Link and Article posted below.
http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2014/03/27/demolition-an-option-for-former-maliboo-club
......."SIMCOE - The Maliboo Club, the last strip joint in town, has closed, and the future of the landmark watering hole remains uncertain.
The mortgage holder of the building at the corner of Talbot and Robinson streets, the Zitia Group, has taken over and says demolition is an option.
But it also says it expects some type of business function can be found for the site whether it’s in the current building or a new one.
“We think we’ll do something there, we just don’t what it is yet,” said Paul Halyk, a partner with Zitia, the same group that developed the subdivision off Donly Drive behind the cemetery.
Halyk pointed to the new municipal administration building going up a block away, the hospital farther down the street, and the recent opening of new businesses and offices in that area of downtown and said he is upbeat about the economic health of Simcoe and its core.
“We like the redevelopment of the whole area,” he said. “We see a real rejuvenation. We think there’s good growth prospects in Simcoe.”
Zitia, he added, wants to have something at the site to “coincide” with the opening of the new county admin building in 2015 and has already been approached by a couple of businesses interested in locating there.
The bar, which probably dates back to the 1800s, carries a lot of history with it.
It is the place where many Simcoe babyboomers had their first drink while listening to local rock/folk bands of the early 1970s back when the bar was called The Village Pump.
Before that it was the Queen’s Hotel. In the 1960s, it was a rough and tumble hard-drinking joint patronized mainly by older men. Fisticuffs outside on the sidewalk were a regular feature.
There’s virtually no information about the building in local history books, but photos appear to date it back to the 19th Century. In one shot posted on Facebook, men in suits wearing hats stand in front of a building (a horse and buggy are off to the side) that at that time would have been on the edge of town and had trees growing out front.
But most local residents will recall the landmark as “the Pump,” when it was the pre-eminent bar in Simcoe and gave birth to notable bands such as Cornerstore and Northshore......."
