Julep Lounge Canberra's most influential bar?

Thoroughly Smashed said :

So does this place have a website that hasn’t expired?

Zorros has a facebook group. In memory. Seach for Zorros/Zorrro’s

Jungle Jim said :

+ a billion for Zorros!

I loved that bar. And if I ever needed a break from the extra heavy drinking and loud music (for whatever reason) the Bourbon Bar was only a few steps away and always more than accommodating.

Sweet! Yeah I went there too, that was in the later years of Zorros after it got live bands I assume. It started as underage hangout, 1 in 3 were under age as it used to be a youth club of some sort before. Then ID’s started getting checked randomly around pub but only once and manager/bouncer would remember (so a lot of underages slipped though by already being regulars by time ID’s were cheched and never got asked but slowly they asked more n more and then decided to put bouncer on the door, a new bouncer, so he would ask everyone and people couldn’t say “come on, you know me im here all the time, just forgot my ID tonight” as many did. That’s when I could get in (if really had no ID and new bouncer) or anyone else in if I wanted. I would just call Sue (manager) from front door someone would pass my call along to another regular who would call Sue and point at door and Sue would smile and nod and mouth yes. I never knew if that was her saying I was OK or if it was the person I was vouching for, the bouncer would point at other person so she must of just trusted my word. That was the family side of Zorros, letting me pour my own beer from tap when I thought no one was looking and I was drunk, no way I could have gotten away with that like I thought. Won so many $50 dinner certificates for Montezuma’s from doubles pool comp the Montezuma’s blonde waitress would remember me and my mate by name and slapped my ass on a few occasions even got a close up magician that performed on and off to come in 1 hour early just for us couse we were interested.. Family.. Montezuma’s was owned by same guy as Zorro’s but no one ever saw him as he hire Sue to manage bar and she shake you upside down if she thought you still had 10 cents, she was always scheming to make the Bar more money and that’s shy it went from half full on a Friday to eventually waiting lines on a Wednesday and charging cover charge too.. But that same money chasing killed Zorros too by things like charging 20cents for water, officially for the clean glass as it is illegal to charge for water. If you handed your beer glass to bar tender they wouldn’t fill with water cause “it was a Health and safety issue”, same with filling up in toilet so you had to pay. Cover charges and these sorts of things eventually scared away the regulars. Then 6 months later the passer-bys slowly stopped coming cause the regulars weren’t there any more and they gave the place atmosphere. It was then sold and became “Shooter night club” and kept the exact same furniture and pool tables and paint and layout etc. It never really took off it was just a cleaner copy of Zorros.

For a while there this other club nearly exactly other side of the the road and downstairs underground had Strippers on Thursdays (I think) and it was free entry but they had just 3 strip acts over the whole night. Since they were like at 10pm, 11:30pm and 1pm approx and had expensive drinks (how they paid the dancers) we used to be at Zorros all night and go to the other club couple mins before each strip and leave right after back to Zorros.. I got busted sneaking a beer out but they beer was from Zorros and I had snuck it in too! Other influential bars are – (the person that asked what is meant by that – They mean influential on peoples own lives) The Phoenix Bar, The Avenue, Heaven Asylum, Terminus and more. The Private Bin was a laugh, got my ass pinched climbing the stairs 1 min into my first visit there, had no idea who did it coz so packed and the whole place was a sleazy meat market, shivers just remembering. Anyway I lived at a place called Havelock house and it was 5 minutes walk from the Civic bus interchange so goinf home was easy and often I would wake wnext to someone who’s name I didn’t know so my flat mates got so used to it they would introduce themselves to any girl there in the morning so I could overhear their name. That and having uncontrollable outbursts at the bottle shop, an hour after waking, as I remembered all the stupid stuff I had done the night before made me realise I had a drinking problem. Up at 2pm drinking by 4pm (Hair of dog beside bed of bourbon and coke warm and flat and when up 2 long necks beer from bottle shop to forget night before) housework and daily activities till 8pm then of to Zorros till 4am then either home or if alone often go to Avenue on other side of block as it was open till 7am. Home to bed wake at 2pm start all over… Don’t drink any more, haven’t for many years thankfully.

Thoroughly Smashed said :

So does this place have a website that hasn’t expired?

The thread is 3 years old, I doubt the place even exists anymore.

So does this place have a website that hasn’t expired?

+1 googolplex for zorro’s.

BungleX said :

Danman said :

Underage at The Asylum, Terrace Bar and Zorros were all influential to me.

Hell yeah, even though I wasn’t under age at them, I moved to Canberra a week after turning 18 and went out constantly. The Terrace Bar had the ultimate giggs with best bands. The Asylum was a ripper of an idea with their charity of 2 cans of food instead of entry fee if you knew about it. Prodigy. Zorros was my bar for 3 years 6 nights a week. Happy hour collect jugs, pool comp win bar tab or dinner at Montezuma’s, Free beer late at night, always a girl to take home and Sue having mine and the regulars back if any fight argument etc came up (they go, I stay) let alone half the bar having each others back if any of us got into it with a passer by, they didn’t know what hit em. BEST BAR ZORROS BY FAR. Damn they even built up over the years a entry line for and it was just a dingy 110 max person pub with 2 pool tables and lot of quarters being played. The under age years got shut down after cops cracked down but I could still get anyone in without ID just by telling bouncer and if he still weary then call to Sue and she would always just smile and nod to bouncer for me as I built up trust and gave her all my money lol. So why people line up, it was the regulars, it was like “Cheers” the show. You had a family there and you could always rely on them whether going out broke and getting shouted all night or shouting a friend or picking up strippers and Picture magazine centrefolds.

+ a billion for Zorros!

I loved that bar. And if I ever needed a break from the extra heavy drinking and loud music (for whatever reason) the Bourbon Bar was only a few steps away and always more than accommodating.

Owning a cocktail bar seems to disable the use, or understanding of the Shift key function.

WTF is an “influential” bar?

Danman said :

Underage at The Asylum, Terrace Bar and Zorros were all influential to me.

Hell yeah, even though I wasn’t under age at them, I moved to Canberra a week after turning 18 and went out constantly. The Terrace Bar had the ultimate giggs with best bands. The Asylum was a ripper of an idea with their charity of 2 cans of food instead of entry fee if you knew about it. Prodigy. Zorros was my bar for 3 years 6 nights a week. Happy hour collect jugs, pool comp win bar tab or dinner at Montezuma’s, Free beer late at night, always a girl to take home and Sue having mine and the regulars back if any fight argument etc came up (they go, I stay) let alone half the bar having each others back if any of us got into it with a passer by, they didn’t know what hit em. BEST BAR ZORROS BY FAR. Damn they even built up over the years a entry line for and it was just a dingy 110 max person pub with 2 pool tables and lot of quarters being played. The under age years got shut down after cops cracked down but I could still get anyone in without ID just by telling bouncer and if he still weary then call to Sue and she would always just smile and nod to bouncer for me as I built up trust and gave her all my money lol. So why people line up, it was the regulars, it was like “Cheers” the show. You had a family there and you could always rely on them whether going out broke and getting shouted all night or shouting a friend or picking up strippers and Picture magazine centrefolds.

@#19 Dry your eyes, princess. I only counted a couple of negative comments in this thread. You evidently haven’t seen a negative thread in this forum yet.

But if you feel really hard done by, create a Tall Poppy cocktail; one that will get even the most dignified of people totally spasticated.