Comments on: Margaret Trudeau and the Daddy Long Legs Disco https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Janet https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-63241 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:51:03 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-63241 Those days on the North Shore during the latter half of the 70s was when the flashy disco clubs dominated. Punk and New Wave was emerging and for many, “disco sucks”! I went there for the dancing mostly and preferred Goofy’s…what a name!…I would head over there after work with my work mates as it was 2 blocks away. I never went to Daddy Long Legs for some reason. The raunchier Coach House was a place where loud local live rock bands played and the place was always packed, as was the dance floor. Back then, the North Shore had a much wilder nightlife scene if I recall correctly.

]]> By: james hourston https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-5043 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:32:12 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-5043 In reply to CGSquamish.

yes the silly , we bought it as is for 1$ as the warm beer tycoons had sold enough lots and were no longer interseted in it. when all the clubs were on horny street or close by it was just too far to go.

]]> By: Jean Bell https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-4473 Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:56:52 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-4473 Who is the “Disco Chic” She looks to me like friend of mine. Great blast from the past!

]]> By: Chris Gordon https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-4470 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:47:47 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-4470 In reply to James Rogge W. H. Hourston.

Holy cow I used to work with Thora at Eatons late 70’s early 80’s!! She was a FUUUUNNN lady!

]]> By: Michael https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-4437 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:42:08 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-4437 i played ball for a team called/sponsored by International Plaza in the Marine Men’s League. We played at Norgate Park, which is right behind the hotel. We used to go to the lounge there to see a band called Killarney (I think they went on later to be the house band at The Blarney Stone over town). They did Neil Diamond covers. The disco as I recall was mostly a miss with North Shore kids, who preferred clubs like Fast Eddies and Goofy’s or even Clyde’s in West Van, Goofys being the most popular…it had previously been Yje Old Roller Rink. There was a spa at International Plaza (maybe it was Europa Spa? And it had this super cold “ice plunge” pool.

]]> By: CGSquamish https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-4058 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:39:31 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-4058 In reply to CGSquamish.

meant to ask whether there were 2 different entertainment/restaurant venues, whether it moved or whether the one person is wrong with his/her recollection of it being either on top or ground floor..
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and what bridge killed it? surely not LG which has been there at least since the early 50’s

]]> By: CGSquamish https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-4057 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:37:44 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-4057 wow, great memories although i’m slightly too young to have actually gone there

so were there restaurant/bar/disco locations there? or did it move at some point?

it was definitely on the casino entertainment touring list…. Ella, Oscar Petersen, Tina Turner, Mel Torme, Mitzi Gaylor (she’s semi-famous but some huge affinity for vancouver and vice-versa)….. were the concerts age-restricted?

FWIW, i used to belong to the gym which was ok. but so much more competition (linden’s and cap mall gym) and griffin gym upgraded…

]]> By: Barbara Smith https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3609 Sun, 21 May 2017 04:57:32 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3609 In reply to Hilary Maguire.

OMG, Loved those days. You’ve brought back great memories. Thanks!!!!

]]> By: David Chesney https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3605 Mon, 15 May 2017 18:29:47 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3605 Lo Rawls played there, so now I am wondering what the disco upstairs on the top floor was called. I knew the disc jockey STEVE CRAWFORD who worked there and popped in a couple of times.

]]> By: Dale https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3602 Mon, 15 May 2017 17:23:38 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3602 Read your cold case book and found it interesting and well written

]]> By: Dale https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3601 Mon, 15 May 2017 17:22:04 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3601 In reply to David Chesney.

It was on ground level, if you pulled in right off Cap road it would of been right in front of you.

]]> By: Linda Roessler (Maack) https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3600 Mon, 15 May 2017 15:39:38 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3600 I used to work at the Hotel as a chambermaid from summer 1979 all through 12th grade high school to the start of my first year at university in1981. Christmas 1980 we had the Housekeeping Christmas party at Daddy Long Legs disco. I got to clean penthouse rooms for Ginger Rogers and Charton Heston, and occasionally the bands who played in the bar at the hotel too. It was a GREAT job for a high school kid, we made $5.65/hour and had a union behind us back then – that money put me though my first year at UBC! Many memories working there…

]]> By: Laura Anderson https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3599 Sun, 14 May 2017 19:02:48 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3599 Vancouver nightspots through the generations – the Cave and Isy’s, the Roof, Maiko Gardens for my parents.
70s Vancouver was still a small town in that people from all over the city turned up at the same huge house parties that spilled over outdoors, or at the mudflats with local bands .
certain groups or types populated Daddy Long Legs and Oil Can Harry’s downtown and Gastown or Afterthought, Retinal Circus, Rohans and many others. The Coach House North Vancouver was sports – football and hockey players. Avalon, Olympic, St. Alice, Gastown bars….surprised what I recall, Yale and Cecil and loved the Commodore. I do remember vividly Tina Turner (with Ikettes, sans Ike) in the 70s so probably was at OCH, only Tina would have had the power to draw me there .

]]> By: Graeme Price https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3598 Sun, 14 May 2017 18:05:27 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3598 I saw BB King there in the early’80s when he and others Blues legends were ‘Has Beens’ . Don’t remember where in the building but I’m pretty sure it was ground floor.

]]> By: Aaron Chapman https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3597 Sun, 14 May 2017 17:12:31 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3597 There was a period when the hotel was booking some fairly noteworthy nightclub performers. Earl Hines was a favourite–though I believe the performers were either booked into the ballroom there or a lounge that became Daddy Long Legs when the disco craze began. But those performances were regularly advertised in the papers. All of which seemed a big deal to entice people overtown to come to the North Shore for entertainment.

]]> By: Canadian History Roundup – Week of May 7, 2017 | Unwritten Histories https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3596 Sun, 14 May 2017 17:02:51 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3596 […] Lazarus remembers the time when Margaret Trudeau, wife to Pierre and father to Justin, came to Vancouver and went dancing at the Dad…. There are […]

]]> By: Susan J Anderson https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3595 Sat, 13 May 2017 22:12:56 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3595 The International Plaza Hotel is on Squamish First Nation land, and was originally seen as an opportunity to anchor the development of other similar commercial enterprises along the strip of Marine Drive that runs east of the Lions Gate Bridge. Once its function as a hotel was disappearing it became apartments, with some other businesses in the tower, but the Staples on the ground level is on-reserve, and until the larger Staples was built in Park Royal South was the most accessible source of stationary and business equipment for First Nations across the province, since purchases made there were tax free.

]]> By: Doug Parks https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3594 Sat, 13 May 2017 21:55:30 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3594 October 13 1979. I cant remember why we chose either venue but they both turned out to be good choices. Frank Bakers Attic allowed our photographer to take some pictures beside the Austin Martin. They wouldnt let anyone near John Lennons Rolls. We had a few pics beside an old fire truck. It was a sit down diner at a cost of around $5 per guest.

]]> By: Hilary Maguire https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3591 Sat, 13 May 2017 21:44:32 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3591 You know you’re old when you identify Margaret Trudeau as the Prime Minister’s wife rather than the Prime Minister’s mother.

]]> By: Rod Mickleburgh https://evelazarus.com/margaret-trudeau-and-the-daddy-long-legs-disco/#comment-3590 Sat, 13 May 2017 21:36:47 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=7150#comment-3590 I was at the opening night of the Daddy Long Legs disco!! A bund of us cheeky young journos went for a laugh, and it was hilarious. Margaret Trudeau really did show up. If memory serves, she showed up with Paul Manning. At one point, my wildly gesticulating hand brushed against her….i didn’t wash my hand for at least the next half hour….haha….for us, the most fun came when the great Chris Gainor ventured onto the disco floor. Being of a size more ample than the rest of us, Gainor in full disco mode was quite the sight…Margaret Trudeau looked over at him, and laughed delightedly. I also remember she truly was gorgeous…..she stayed for about an hour, and was gone….another great stunt by the unforgettable Tom Butler….

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