THE BIG BAND ERA could be returning to the North Shore if the

management of the building on Lonsdale, which formerly housed the Totem Theatre, have their way. Aiming for a ‘classy cabaret,’ the group

very classy’ cabar

By LYNDA CUMMING

if the Totem Theatre on Lonsdale ever makes it to the cabaret stage, it is going to be one classy operation.

Men will wear jackets, if you please, and swing and sway, with their ladies, to the pleasant sound of the Big Band Era. All under the chic decor that, at a cost of about $250,000, has transformed the once tatty cinema into a glittering nightclub.

Geoff Procter is one of six North Shore businessmen who feel their proposed Totem Cinema hasn't been getting a fair shake.

*“City council has -already agreed that this facility is in a good location,’’ he says, **and they have approved our cabaret and five entertain- ment licence.’’

But, he says, it is the manager of the Liquor Administration Board who has to give the group its pre-site licence. And Procter said he can deimand that a plebiscite be conducted in the area in which case 60 per cent of the people polled must agree to the granting of the licence.

**The poll is going is going to cost us about $5,000,"’ Procter said.

**But we will go along with it because we feel that apart from these people who are pulling up a petition, there are enough people who will vote for it.”

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Procter says most people have the wrong idea about the club and the people behind it.

‘*I don’t know where the name disco came from, but it certainly wasn’t from us,’” he said.

‘*The club would be very, very classy - although

relaxed,”” he said. |

‘*We went around to just about every club downtown area and picked out the places that impressed

_ us the most. One of them was

Annabelles. It was classy.’’

That, said Procter, is the kind of place he wants the Totem to be. And there is not another place on the North Shore like it.

Procter said the club is more than 275 feet from the

nearest residence and doesn’t believe that noise will be nuisance.

‘Our proposal to. city

council was for top manage- ment, tight control and pleasant surroundings,”* and he added that means a tight control on individuals coming 1o the facility and leaving the facility.

Five of the six co-owners of the club live and operate businesses in North Van, Procter said, and three of them have been juvenile soccer coaches in this com- munity for six years.

‘We are all sound indivi- duals,”" he said.

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