The Victory hotel burned down this morning!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24084587-29277,00.html

Think of all the booze :(

Holy crap!

Was this the place that just got renovated? Or is this the joint across the road from the one getting renovated and had kind of an outside beer garden?

lol

HAHAHA YES!

That s***hole burnt to the ground, there is a god!

I went into the toilets there once and there was a guy chucking a s*** in the hand basin :S

If I knew it was you Chub I would have said hi.

This is bad because now the bogans will have to go somewhere else :(

LOL. And I never experienced its much famed seedyness.

ill miss your cheap vb jugs

also, haha mission

Maybe it will arise from the ashes like a phoenix, and become an all-new awesome outdoor pub! It can't get any worse, surely.

about time...

noooo

I'm sure they were insured - this will just mean that it gets built into a bigger and better s***hole.

Haha holy s***. If that ever happened at the Regatta, anyone downstairs in the dungeon area would be dead in seconds. RE has only a couple of staircases to upstairs, but I guess you could easily jump out the window and climb down the roofing over the deck.

heh, the victory beer garden used to be great when i worked in central exchange on elizabeth st. in telecom. decent food for a decent price & good atmosphere. went to crap in the mid nineties when the suits took over & we weren't allowed into the beer garden with work boots on. ffs. so i guess 'diaf' is appropriate.

funeral will be held next tuesday.

sounds sus...
i've been hearing that there's a development application for a multistory office building on that lot for a while now.

anyway, i might walk down there now and see what an improvement the fire made to the place.

agreeing with xandrax and lolling at mission

Only good thing about the Vic is that it's now burnt down.

sounds sus...
i've been hearing that there's a development application for a multistory office building on that lot for a while now.

Do you really think they would intentionally burn the place down while it is full of people?

Do you really think someone wouldn't?

Point taken.

can't wait for another one of devine's fantastic apartment towers

f*** that'd be a dangerous place to be in during a fire.

think of all that flanelette

it was a great bogan meeting venue now they will goto the valley.

Damn, I liked the vic. :(


Although news.com,au is only reporting old news:

"There is basically a hole that runs from the basement to the roof.''

last edited by kr0wb4r at 14:47:37 27/Jul/08

Just walked past there and saw the damage. impressed++;

the vic was great.
oh well time to reclaim the valley.

when i worked in central exchange on elizabeth st. in telecom.

You worked at Edison? How long? I was there for a week and every time I stepped out of the elevators I felt like I was walking into the nuthouse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

FYI

the vic was great.
oh well time to reclaim the valley.

That place is s***, i only went there cause i used to get free drinks from my mates working there. once they left, i never went back.

Ah...the amount of times I've been tossed out of the Vic. Karma is a great thing, I knew those f***ers would get theirs :p

yeah i was in there last night, there was smoke everywhere and that excuse for a stair case didn't make it easy to get out. i don't know where it started but there was smoke all through the place upstairs and down, and once we were outside there was a heap of smoke coming out of the roof.

RIP, Victory. The bear garden was always a great place to spend a Friday afternoon after work. People who hate on the Vic are just pretencious f*****s who have never actually spent any time there. Most of the staff there are pretty cool people, I hope they all manage to find new jobs ok.

i've been hearing that there's a development application for a multistory office building on that lot for a while now.

I doubt it, I was told the building was heritage listed.

i got kissed by a guy in that s*** hole.

i can finally let go know its burnt down.

pretty sure i've spent more time there than i would like to admit, and i still hate the place

i got kissed by a guy in that s*** hole.

i can finally let go know its burnt down.

LOL, the homosexual activity brought the wrath of god down on the Victory!

he was saving himself for marriage

"I doubt it, I was told the building was heritage listed."

not any more ;D

RIP, Victory. The bear garden was always a great place to spend a Friday afternoon after work.

That sounds like a terrible afternoon. No wonder the place burnt down, it was a death trap.

Gays and bears in the garden at the Victory...no wonder no one liked it.

HAHAHA YES!

That s***hole burnt to the ground, there is a god!

I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on the news.

Good Riddance to bogan rubbish. seems like I'm not the only one with bad memories of the place (or rather, dealing with the denizens that dwelled within).

"Up in smoke tour"

that was bad.

It happened just before 3am? Sucky thing is you couldn't move on to another bar heh

i see what you did there

yeah good riddance to the vic, and to any bar that isn't top heavy with dumb preening tools and stuck-up door bitches

bring back Mary St ffs

this is bad, now even more bogans will go to the valley =(

Last time I went there I stupidly asked for a cocktail. They aren't known for their cocktails for a reason.

RIP the VIC.

oh no, insom has no where that will let him in anymore

hey we might see a new cold chisel song out of this

hey we might see a new cold chisel song out of this

ISWYDT

Jim wins the thread.

What am I missing?

a chromosome

heh, my best friend was meant to be working there that night but she called in sick.
coincidence? i think not!

yeah my housemate was there. said it was pretty crazy. not many places to go in the city now with the vic and exchange out of order. im sure union jacks and the porto will be busy now.

^ The Vic was the place to go for live music. Neither Union Jacks nor Port Office have any bands (UJ only ever has a solo artist, if anything).

I think it'll be The Brewhouse, O'Malleys & Irish Murphies seeing the gain.

We played Irish Murphies last night & our guitarist told the crowd IM was the place to be as "...the only other place worth going to burnt down this morning...". Cue big grins from security.

live music = s***ty cover bands?

pass.

same.

maybe the wankers will funnel out of the city over to the RE ?

woohoo one less gay city club =)

Not all live music is s***ty cover bands, it can be s***ty original bands too, we played the barra bar at springwood saturday night.

PS, id take a decent cover band over that wanky dj s*** anyday.

last edited by `ViPER` at 15:30:08 28/Jul/08

PS, id take a decent cover band over that wanky dj s*** anyday.

Ditto

can't wait for another one of devine's fantastic apartment towers

Victory Towers.

To with Casino Towers, Charlotte Towers and Festival Towers !

Hahahaha Barra Bar.
The Vic is for Snooty English Royalty compared to the backwater which is the Barra Bar.

there might be such a thing as a decent cover band, but they never played at the vic.

yeah i'm thinking boganville (the re) will pick up the slack

The Vic is for Snooty English Royalty compared to the backwater which is the Barra Bar.

Oh yeah it sure is, most of the bogans left before the bands played though, we had to wait for the footy to finish before we could play, after that it was just people there to see the bands. Was hoping some of the bogans would hang around so we could pay out on them when we played.



Heres some footage from saturday night.

Do people get stabbed outside of the Barra club?

If not, I think they should start with you.

INSURANCE

DA VIC: bbr in a year ok guys?

heh, a friend of mine walked in to the Vic and 10 minutes later was evacuated

As much as I hated that s*** hole, we're now left with a horde of bogans with nowhere to fight eachother on weekends.

PS, id take a decent cover band over that wanky dj s*** anyday.

Same here.

there might be such a thing as a decent cover band, but they never played at the vic.

Touche.

lol @ band member.

The Vic was the place to go for live music.

they vic may or may not have had live music acts in the past but i don't think it has ever been considered 'the place to go for live music'. ever.

you all need to get off the vic-hating bandwagon... where else can you go to escape the metro f*****s that half of you probably are?
re, regatta? pfft, homos

the bottom of a cliff

Nf; douche, I have no intention of meeting you there

lol like you're old enough to get into a club

wow yellow_feet you really know your way around a semi-colon (and presumably lower intestines too).

too derivative

they vic may or may not have had live music acts in the past but i don't think it has ever been considered 'the place to go for live music'. ever.

...live music every night of the week (full bands from Thurs to Sun, solo/duo acts the rest of the week), same as Irish Murphies.

wow yellow_feet you really know your way around a semi-colon (and presumably lower intestines too).

Nf; douche; you suck;;;

yellowfeet yellowfeet what are they feeding you?
yellowfeet yellowfeet it's not your fault

nice friends reference

nice friends reference

imo the mustang bar is the place that will get all the bogans Maybe the RG. Everywhere is fair boring these days anyway. On the beer garden exclusive.

I went into the toilets there once and there was a guy chucking a s*** in the hand basin :S

never had to see that - but seeing someone pissing in the basin regularly was a turn off for the place.


from vivid memory, there's a place just up the road where some of society's elite do it just the same as I recall. I should know - I once had the task of cleaning up after the executive level messes some people made when they're off their tits.

man I hated end-of-year school breakups. so few people realise that so many of our society's greatest misses come from the highest level.

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lol society's elite, at brisbane tattersals

I peed in the sink of a french hostel once

when in rome

lol society's elite, at brisbane tattersals

the focuss was on their greatest misses actually.



they eventually get outed by their natural born social set... and end up being those guys with tons of money, s*** hot cars, don't work.... and you wonder where that bogan gets all this from.



now ya know :)

2 weeks ago i walked into the upstairs pissa and there was blood everywhere. was f***ing freaky.

was always a fun night

RIP the Vic aka the slut den.

pave has never given away a cheesburger that wasnt compromised

haha NF you are awesome. comeback king of QGL.

OT: yellow, are you joking? The vic has to be one of the s***tiest club/bar places in the city. Heck I would even prefer to go to a bar in redcliffe on a Saturday night than there.
I went there once and it was s***house. Granted during the day it may have been alright but come on. There's at least 20 better places to go in the city on a Friday/Saturday night than there that is not full of f*****s, like the vic was.

Pokie Controller hehe

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Bogans Rejoice.

"THE" Vic
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Why do you guys all bag a place you most likely have been to before and will go back to once it re-opens.

Even though the place was and will continue to be a haven for bogans. I bet most of you have been there and gotten legless before, and will do so again.

LOL

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Why do you guys all bag a place you most likely have been to before and will go back to once it re-opens. Even though the place was and will continue to be a haven for bogans. I bet most of you have been there and gotten legless before, and will do so again. LOL

nope.

"There is basically a hole that runs from the basement to the roof.''

Am I the only one thinking Floorless Victory?

yes

Not so smart after all then are you?

Haha kos well done