Bring your friends! We’re all going to take a break, put on some nifty duds and meet up with the gang for a scandalous time at The 21 Club. Yes, there is gambling. In the gambling room there will be two Black Jack tables, one Roulette table, one Texas Holdem Poker table, two tables of High Card wins, and gambling staff to keep you in line. It’s all with playing chips, folks, no money allowed. Keep your bills for your sloe gin fizzes! Which brings us to booze. This is Prohibition time: no hoochbooze allowed. Just joshing! There will be a beauty of a bar manned by the infamously dapper Quinn of Quinn’s Pub. He and his compatriots will offer beer, there will be wine for those ritzy types, and there will be cocktails for the swanky. Just ask Quinn. He will take care of you. But keep a nice queue, and remember to say please and thank you.
How about some tunes, you ask? Yes, the Main Hall will have a live Swing band that will play Sinatra and Gershwin and will knock your socks off. But please put them back on as soon as possible and wear fresh ones to begin with. This is a first class joint after all! Yes, you will be swinging and swaying to one of Ottawa’s finest local jazz bands all in the Renovated Main Hall which will be decked out so swellmuch that you just won’t believe it. We’re back in time after all. Suspension of disbelief is the phrase tonite. There’ll be potted palms and nice little tables where you can whisper sweet nothings to your wife, or your neighbours’ wife. This is the 20s after all! Projections of film stars and art deco will adorn the walls, and the glittering candle-light will spin in the silver dance ball overhead. See? We’re talking way outta-sight, this is going to be some swell party. Well, that’s all fine and dandy well and fine you say, but what about some egg-rolls?
You’re hungry, are you? Hold your horses, we were just getting to that. Waiters will circulate the rooms to give you warm and delicious canapés made by one of Ottawa’s finest catering companies. And there will be a table for those too eager to wait around for the waiters. You can serve yourself. Just don’t slosh food on that new frock you’re wearing. It looks ab-so-lute-ly hotsy-totsy! Where in the world did you get it? Here’s the secret: If you’re really into the 20s dress style, you can rent it at the following stores: Audrey’s at 1460 Cyrville Road or Malabar’s at 1610 Merivale Road. They can suit you up so you’re the bee’s knee’s, the cat’s meow.
We’ll see you all there, I feel sure. I know I’ll be there. Be there or be square, as they say! But hurry! Tickets are flying out the door like new Model Ts, and we don’t have many left, so you’d better get a wiggledash right on over to the Firehall at 260 Sunnyside Avenue, guys and dolls, lads and lasses, and grab some.
